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Built to be used.

From the first warm afternoon to long after dark.

Patios, decking, pergolas, outdoor kitchens, lighting and driveways, designed and built across Nottinghamshire by Sam Bright and the SB team.

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“The hardest working people I know!”

Stephen Luke, on Facebook · 6 reviews, all recommend
A contemporary garden at dusk: a floating timber bench in front of a lit planter of olive trees and grasses, bands of porcelain and grass, a fire pit burning, and a line of LED light running along a black steel frame overhead.
Barn conversion by SG Design Group Landscaping by SB Outdoor Living

Afternoon Recent work

Four gardens, and what changed.

What each one was, what went in, and how it turned out. In Sam’s words, where he’s written them.

Terraced Millboard decking stepping down beside a brick-edged porcelain path, with beds of pebbles, grasses and clipped shrubs, under a clear blue sky.

01

The mound that became a terrace

2024 to 2025 · Decking, terracing and a sunken swim spa

“From what was a mound of unusable space, to a statement piece that stands out!”

Sam, August 2025
Decking
Millboard, Coppered Oak
Set into it
A sunken swim spa, “perfect for both the warmer and cooler months”
Around it
Terraced beds, pebbles and planting, a brick-edged porcelain path
Materials
MKM Nottingham
Before: a steep bank of bare earth and rough grass with old sleeper steps, below tall conifers.
Before
The finished deck from above the swim spa, with two timber loungers in the foreground, a lawn to one side and the house beyond.
The top deck, looking back to the house

02

Drawn, built, then grown in

2022 to 2023 · A whole back garden, designed by @soph_sgd

  1. A hand holding the printed garden design, a coloured 3D drawing with a black pergola and raised beds, in front of the untouched garden and the house.
    August 2022 The drawing, on day one
  2. Before: an overgrown back garden with tired paving, shrubs and a bench.
    Before The garden as it was
  3. Finished: a large light grey porcelain terrace under black timber pergola beams, cedar fencing either side, steps up to the house.
    September 2022 Finished
A year on: the same garden full of planting, orange and yellow flowers and silver-leaved plants in front of the black pergola and cedar fence.

August 2023 A year on

“This is what it’s about! A year since we completed this job.”

Sam, August 2023

The owners have spent the year planting it up. This is how it looks now.

Materials from London Stone, Landscape Plus and Chris The Timber Merchants

03

“When an idea comes to life”

October 2025 · Outdoor kitchen

A curved, floating worktop built round a Beefeater 1200 barbecue, with a herringbone splashback, all in Quorn Stone’s Dijon limestone and Dijon porcelain.

“Lots of work involved in this, but all worth it with how it turned out!”

Sam, October 2025
  1. Step 1: the blockwork wall, before the worktop goes on.
    1
  2. Step 2: a timber frame for the worktop laid out against the wall.
    2
  3. Step 3: the frame fixed in place, with the curved end and the opening for the barbecue.
    3
  4. Step 4: the frame boarded, ready to be tiled.
    4
The finished outdoor kitchen: a stainless barbecue set into a curved limestone worktop that floats off the wall, a herringbone splashback behind, limestone paving below.
Finished
Before: a sloping new build garden of rough grass and weeds, looking back to the house.
Before
After, from the same spot: a level lawn edged in porcelain, a porcelain path and a wide patio at the house.
After

04

Unusable, then used all year

January 2023 · New build garden

“Unusable, sloped new build garden transformed into a modern, low maintenance garden that can be used all year round.”

Sam, January 2023

Levelled, then porcelain, a lawn, raised rendered planters and a water feature at the far end.

Golden hour What we build

From the ground up. Finished with light.

The order it goes in. Pick anything on the list to see one we’ve built.

01 Ground

02 Structure

03 Features

04 Light

Porcelain and stone patios: Black porcelain over two levels, 2023
Black porcelain over two levels, 2023
A 3D drawing of a garden from above: a sunken fire pit area, porcelain terrace, raised planters and a striped lawn.

Not sure yet? See it in 3D first.

“These 3D CGI’s will give you an almost perfect representation of what to expect from your project.”

Sam, March 2023

On bigger gardens, Sam works alongside garden designers, and builds to their drawings.

Dusk Lighting

“It’s amazing the difference some lighting can make!”

Sam, June 2021

A courtyard garden in daylight: grey porcelain, a raised deck with a rattan dining set, cream rendered walls and cedar fencing with three wall lights. The same courtyard at night: the three wall lights wash up and down the cedar, and small lights in the deck step glow across the porcelain.
A courtyard, June 2021. Same garden, photographed by day and with the lights on.

“Lighting to highlight features and set the mood at night makes this garden useable at all times of the year!”

Sam, September 2021
  • Wall lights that wash the fence
  • Lights set into deck steps
  • LED strip in steps, benches and bars
  • Uplighters in the borders
  • Lit water features
  • A kinetic remote: lighting and water on and off, “no batteries or wires”

“…porcelain tiles and cedar fencing along with lighting in the decking and fence for a lovely ambiance in the evening.”

Sarah Szysler, on Facebook, June 2021
A walled courtyard at dusk: old brick walls lit warm from below, a dark water bowl in a square of gravel, raised beds with lit edges.
“The lighting really finishes this one off!” Courtyard, 2024
A new house at dusk with its glass doors open onto a pale porcelain terrace, a thin line of light set into the paving, a lounge area under a cedar-lined canopy.
A line of light in the porcelain ALS Properties, 2025
A long rendered water trough at night, the water lit blue from inside, two small fountains, a strip of light under its coping.
Lit water trough 2021
A water blade pouring from a stone surround into a black pool, with spotlights picking out the grasses either side.
Water blade at dusk 2023
Flames along a long fire table in front of a pale outdoor sofa.
Fire table 2021 to 2022

Evening Reviews

“…the hardest working people I know!”

Stephen Luke, January 2023

100% recommend · 6 reviews on the SB Outdoor Living Facebook page

  1. Stephen LukeJanuary 2023

    Two projects at his house

    Sam, his team, Jack and Joe have completed 2 projects at mine and all I can say is they are the hardest working people I know! They show up early every day, the work they do is second to none and the results have been amazing. Thank you so much for all of your hard work. I would trust SB Outdoor Living with any project. No job is too big and they will do their best to give an amazing finish!

  2. Adam PerkinsJanuary 2023

    An unused area, made a place to play and relax

    Sam and the team design and delivery was fantastic. Turned an unused area of garden into a great place to play and relax. Hardworking team with a great attention to detail. Thanks

  3. Sarah SzyslerJune 2021

    Courtyard: porcelain, cedar and lighting

    Sam has done a fantastic job on our courtyard garden which had become overgrown and untidy. Sam and his colleague worked really hard to complete the job in all weathers and always tidied up every day when they left. Sam is a perfectionist and both the fencing and the tiling are exceptionally neat…

  4. Matt GuyJune 2021

    A garden levelled and seeded

    Sam and his team did an absolutely brilliant job for us, provided great advice and helped keep the job affordable with a great end product. They also levelled off our garden with top soil and seeded it for us, which wasn’t originally planned for but has made our garden much more usable. Couldn’t recommend SB Outdoor Living highly enough!

  5. Annette ChalackJune 2021

    Twelve fence panels on a slope

    SB Outdoor Living installed a fence for us, around 12 panels on a slope. They did a fantastic job, the fence is level and complete with the requested hedgehog hole. Prompt, professional, polite guys. Turned up as promised and left the garden clean and tidy. Highly recommended.

The white SB Outdoor Living van with the logo on its side, and an SB site board in front of it.

Night About

Sam Bright, and the SB team.

Sam set up SB Outdoor Living in April 2021. It has grown into a team that takes on anything from a single fence to a whole garden, a driveway or the groundwork for a new building.

Gardens can be drawn up in 3D before anything is dug, and on the bigger schemes Sam builds to a garden designer’s plans. Materials come from London Stone, Millboard, Quorn Stone and Marshalls, and from merchants round Nottingham.

One job Sam talks about: an old mill ruin his grandad bought and restored in 1979. Years later, SB built the outdoor space for its new owners.

SB are a sponsor of Eastwood CFC, and the groundwork team has been working at their Coronation Park ground.

Black steel frames with LED strip inside them stepping away towards a lit bar under a pergola, olive trees and grasses in a long planter, bands of porcelain and grass, at dusk.
Pergola and bar at dusk, 2024

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