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A finished Cornerstone garden seen from above at dusk: raised timber decking off the conservatory, pale porcelain paths and lawns, with warm lights along the fences and planters.

Garden design & landscaping · Renfrewshire

Most of our gardens start as a muddy new-build plot.

This is how they finish.

We design and build whole gardens for homes across Renfrewshire, Inverclyde and Glasgow: porcelain patios, decking, planting, fencing, steps and split levels.

Start your garden See how they start

Raised decking, porcelain and lighting, from above. Aerial by Richmond Cinematics. Lit steps on a split-level new-build garden. Lighting by Bishopton Electrical.

Scottish Home Improvement Awards finalist 202320242026

How they start

Day one is rarely pretty.

Half the work is having the vision to see what a space could become before the project even starts. Scroll on and watch one finish.

  1. Before Bare soil and builder’s gravel behind a brand-new house.
  2. After Pale porcelain patio, a curved lawn and an acer as the centrepiece.
Before: a new-build house with an unlevelled garden of bare soil and gravel.
After: the same house with a pale porcelain patio, curved lawn and a red-leaved acer in a ring of white stones.

How we build

Design. Dig. Deliver.

Our own three-word summary of a Cornerstone project. The middle one is the part nobody photographs, and the reason the other two last.

Design

Paul is the creative eye behind our gardens.

He looks at how you want to use the space, how it sits with the house and which materials will work together, so we can advise you with confidence from day one. We can source, select and plant for you too.

Already have a plan? Bring it. You design, we create.

Overhead drone view of a finished garden at dusk, showing the lines of the paving, lawns, raised decking and lit planters.
A garden designed to be enjoyed from every angle, including straight down.

Dig

Preparation is key.

It isn’t the most visible part of landscaping, but it’s what prevents sinking paving, poor drainage and uneven lawns. Here’s what goes in before anything you’ll see.

Cross-section of a garden build: cleared ground at the top, then the finished surface, compacted sub-base, drainage, and ground excavated and graded to level. 1 2 3 4 5
  1. Clear vegetation, debris and old turf.
  2. Excavate to the correct levels and grade the ground.
  3. Install drainage where it’s needed.
  4. Compact the sub-base.
  5. Prepare for the finish: paving, turf, gravel or planting.
A Cornerstone team member at the controls of an orange mini digger, excavating a garden.
On the digger, early in a job.

Deliver

Then the finish, where the detail shows.

Capped planters, clean porcelain lines, planting set just so. On one of our top projects of 2024 the clients chose a colour combination to complement the house, and the result is clean, warm and elegant.

Materials from suppliers we know well J W Grant · McNairs · Paving Stones Direct · The Grass Yard · Millboard · McLaren’s Nurseries

A raised planter faced in stacked stone cladding, edged with white pebbles and lit by small uplighters, with box balls and conifers along a timber fence.
Stone-clad planter and uplighting. Lighting by Bishopton Electrical.

The work

Recent gardens.

A few favourites from the last couple of years. The square in each photo’s corner is a material from that garden, set like the stone in our logo.

A new-build garden in neutral tones: grey composite decking with beige outdoor sofas under a parasol, horizontal slat fencing, box balls and small trees in white stones, and marble-effect porcelain.
Corner: marble-effect porcelain

New build · 2025

The Kirkconnel project

A blank space turned into a calm, modern retreat. Neutral modernism with a Scandi, Japandi feel: soft beige, light grey and natural wood, and straight clean lines through the fence, decking and furniture.

A true collaboration. The clients’ taste guided every choice of material, tone and colour.

Palette
Soft beige, light grey, natural wood
Materials
Porcelain tiles, decking and fencing, all in clean straight lines
Planting
Box balls and small trees in white decorative stone

New build · repeat clients

Gemma and Ryan’s second garden

This is the second garden we’ve landscaped for them. As soon as they’d put down a deposit on their new home, they were in touch to secure a date.

From a muddy new-build plot: a Lucio Cava quartz patio, herringbone decking, horizontal slat fencing and synthetic grass, with room for plenty of family time. The herringbone is a labour of love, but we love the finish.

“His attention to detail is what you’re looking for when designing a garden.”

Gemma & Ryan
Herringbone decking running alongside a raised rendered planter, with a pale quartz patio and lawn beyond.
Corner: herringbone decking
The finished garden: quartz patio stepping down to herringbone decking, planter and synthetic lawn inside new slat fencing.
Three olive trees in a long rendered planter with box balls beneath, against slat fencing, beside a cream porcelain patio and lawn.

Planting

Olive trees bring height, privacy and a calm Mediterranean feel. Simple, sculptural, timeless.

Trees from McLaren’s Nurseries, planted by us.

Garden renovation · 2024

Garden glamour

A full makeover with every detail considered: patio, planters, cladding, new fence, pergola and raised decking.

The pergola covers the hot tub, so the garden works all year round, with a cosy fire pit area and a foliage wall against the dark frame.

Feature
Le Décor patterned porcelain in the seating area
Patio
Storm white porcelain
Built
Pergola, raised decking, planters, cladding, fencing
A dark aluminium pergola sheltering a hot tub at the end of a white porcelain patio, with a green foliage wall and slat fencing.
Corner: Le Décor porcelain
Inside the pergola: the hot tub beside the foliage wall, with planting in the foreground.
A black pergola over a seating area on pale porcelain, with a wooden hammock stand, palms in pots and slat fencing.
Corner: horizontal slat fencing
Raised planters and an olive tree in a large green pot beside the house, on a pale porcelain patio.

Garden makeover · Glasgow

From wild weeds to wow

“We hadn’t used our garden in years, so we finally decided to give it the makeover it deserved.”

The Scottish weather did its best to stop the build. Now there’s a black pergola, a fire pit, raised planters and somewhere to lie in the sun when it does come out.

More gardens on Instagram

Then the lights come on.

After dark

The bit clients send us videos of.

Gardens and lighting go hand in hand. Step lights, uplit fencing and LED strips under planter caps make a garden worth sitting out in long after sunset.

Wide porcelain steps lit from beneath each tread, rising between charcoal-clad walls to the back of a house at blue hour.
Split-level new build. Bianco Cream porcelain, charcoal cladding, lighting by Bishopton Electrical.
Composite decking at dusk with an angled planter edged in a continuous warm LED strip.
Same garden: LED strip following the planter.
Lit porcelain steps between a stone-clad planter and slat fencing, leading down to a seating area under wall lights.
Levels and lighting.
Steps down a sloped garden, each lit along the edge, beside a wall of stacked stone cladding.
Sloped garden. Oyster wall cladding, lighting by Dargavel Contracts.
A timber pergola strung with festoon lights over outdoor sofas, with lit planters and wall lights on slat fencing.
Pergola, festoon lights and lit planters.

Lighting is installed by the electricians we work with: Ross at Bishopton Electrical and Gary at Dargavel Contracts.

Kind words

“Moving into a new build our garden was just a huge mud pit and Paul has transformed it into such a lovely space. Would absolutely recommend Cornerstone.”

Gemma & Ryan Full garden makeover, second garden with us

“Massive thanks to you all for completing our vision and the changes we made along the way… Thoroughly recommend Paul and his team.”

Susan Seed

“Paul and his team did our garden too, they were amazing!”

Fiona MacPhee

“From wild weeds to wow.”

@homeofchelle

Scottish Home Improvement Awards

  • 2023Finalist, Scotland’s Best Landscaping CompanyHighly Recommended
  • 2024Finalist, Scotland’s Best Landscaping CompanyHighly Recommended
  • 2026Finalist, Scotland’s Best Hard Landscaping CompanyAnd the dicky bow got an outing

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Where we work Bishopton · Renfrew · Paisley · Glasgow · East Renfrewshire · Inverclyde

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