Built around the garden, not the other way round
When we designed Meadow View in 2009, we started with the gardens. Not the building, not the rooms — the gardens. Because we'd seen too many care homes where residents stared at car parks.
Every corridor opens onto a courtyard. Every bedroom has a view of trees, not tarmac. The gardens have raised beds that residents look after themselves, a sensory garden for people with dementia, and a greenhouse that's warm even in February.
The building grew around this idea. Wide doorways, flat thresholds, big windows. Nothing about Meadow View was an afterthought.