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April 26, 2016

Take a tour of our paving showroom at Bounds Green, near London's North Circular, the A406.

Exterior display at our North London landscaping showroom

Designed for You

Our North London Showroom, in Bounds Green, was our first to be designed in-house by (our rather talented, but shh! Don’t tell them) Director Gavin Walley, Design Project Manager Piotr Przytula and Sales Advisor Ionna Vongou. Using input given to us by customers, they put an enormous amount of thought into what you need to see and how you like to see it. “It was a lot of work,” said Customer Experience Director Chris Durnford. “We relocated the steps to the mezzanine floor, took away the roller shutter and replaced it with the new glass frontage.” The result is a high-ceilinged, light, airy space that draws you straight in to the relaxed seating area with the bean-to-cup coffee station and fridge offering hot and cold refreshments.

North London landscaping showroom front desk and refreshment and seating area

Inspirational Displays

Area Manager Carl Foster is based at this showroom. He possesses a wealth of experience in natural stone and porcelain and in working with customers on design. “It’s a very customer-friendly showroom,” he says. “It’s easy to see how to match up colours and textures. The displays feature the stone, the indoor/outdoor elements, how paving highlights plants, and outdoors you’ve got DesignBoard and DesignClad ‘in action’.”

DesignClad porcelain cladding vertical display wall, with sample rack below

Indoors is well spaced, with an area dedicated to our porcelain paving. We have all colours on display - in tall hanging racks that give a real idea of how each one looks laid and grouted across an expanse. Ditto with Millboard. No wondering about how a whole plank will look, or the repeat patterns. The hanging display makes all that crystal clear. We’ve laid our various DesignBoard options in the same area, too, so you only have to look down to see how these products can enhance your next design. Past the photos that show real-life gardens constructed with our products (and credited to the companies that built each one), you’ll find the Bespoke Masonry area. Here you'll find a full library of pier cap profiles, as well as edge profiles in porcelain, natural stone, and composite decking, so you can see exactly what effect each one creates.

Italian Porcelain display area with porcelain sliders

Outdoor Display Area

We transformed the area to the rear into an attractively landscaped space, planted by Form Plants' horticultural expert Jamie Butterworth. Laid with a full range of our most popular paving, mortared with Larson Streetscape and GftK, it also showcases our stone walling, stone cladding, DesignClad and DesignBoard, incorporated into just the sort of features that are so popular in modern gardens. There’s even a firepit and outdoor oven!

Bespoke copings and pier caps display wall, showing edge profile options

North London isn’t just a showcase, though. While indoor walls feature the most popular DesignClad colours so you can get a good look at them (both seamless and grouted), we’ve left one large wall free for projected displays. This gives us a large, relaxed space for CPD and training days.

Easy to Reach

And why Bounds Green Industrial Estate? Well, not only is it just off the North Circular but it's only 10 minutes’ walk away from Bounds Green Tube Station (on the Piccadilly Line), which is 17 minutes from King’s Cross. This makes access easy from Central and North London. At the same time we’re surrounded by the other trades you often need, so you might be able to kill two birds with one stone on the trading estate.

Enjoy Your Visit

Customers have been wowed by the North London Showroom. “This is really unexpected; it’s beautiful!” said visitor Nicky Brzoscowski. “We came for the front garden but now we’re going to look at our back garden too. It’s really nice to see everything laid out in this minimalist way,” she added. Discover more about our Bounds Green showroom. Open six days a week, we'd love to see you here for a coffee soon. We’re sure you won’t be disappointed. Post updated: December 2024