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People’s Choice Award (Queensland Garden Expo) | Cover Feature (Backyard Magazine) | Featured Designer (Native Plant Project)

The Forgotten Potential of Your Site

Look out your window. What do you see? For many, the residential landscape is treated as a mere afterthought—an exercise in decorating the outside of a house with a few plants and a patch of lawn.

At Regenerative Designs, we view your property differently. The space surrounding your home is a three-dimensional volume waiting to be sculpted into functional, living environments. Since 2014, we have been transforming Sunshine Coast properties by treating the outdoors as an extension of the home’s architecture—creating "outdoor rooms" that breathe, function, and inspire.

Why Most Residential Landscapes Fail

Have you ever walked through a yard that felt disconnected? Where patios are too small, gardens are overgrown, and spaces simply don't "flow"?

These are typical problems, but their root cause is rarely discussed: There is a profound lack of understanding and training in the fundamentals of design among many who plan and implement residential sites.

Too often, landscaping is approached by contractors or nurserymen who understand how to build a wall or plant a tree, but lack the architectural training to understand spatial composition. They skip the foundational steps of site analysis, circulation, and spatial relationship. The result? Cookie-cutter yards that fail to serve the people living in them.

Completed Landscape Design Projects

  • The Rosemount Project

  • The Yaralla Project

  • The Antipodes Project

  • The Hills Project

  • The Crescent Project

Landscape Designs Published By

  • Logo for Sanctuary Modern Green Homes featuring the word 'Sanctuary' in large white text and 'Modern Green Homes' in smaller white text on a white background.
  • Logo with the text 'Native Plant Project' surrounded by a circular, native flower design.
  • Backyard Magazine logo with the text 'Creative Australian Living' underneath.

  • "Justin did an amazing design for our garden. He took the time to really understand the vision we had and match that to the house and surrounding area. We could not be any happier with the finished result."

    —Ian & Jackie, Castaways Beach

  • "Justin is an efficient landscape designer with strong project management and IT skills. He has a thoughtful understanding of structure and space, creating outdoor areas that are unique to our property needs, low maintenance, functional, and aligned with both our timeframe and budget requirements. We would happily recommend ‘Regenerative Designs’ to anyone looking to establish a low maintenance, native garden that is sustainable, feels connected to place, designed to thrive."

    —Glenn Hentschel and Michelle Cochrane

  • "Here we are 12 months later - absolutely thrilled with the end result! Justin's creative design and plant selection is wonderful. People stop and stare (or slowly drive by sneakily taking videos!) The simple, but elegant native garden is exactly what we asked for, and is a testament to his professional expertise. Truly he has brought our property to life. We cannot recommend him highly enough. Thank you Justin."

    —V. Bressan

  • "Justin recently completed a fantastic master landscape plan for our rural property on the Sunshine Coast. From the onset, we really liked his professionalism and approach to the process. He was very structured, detailed and provided good insight into the reasoning for his design. He communicated well and regularly with weekly updates throughout the process. Justin's creativity was amazing with the selection and placement of natives carefully interwoven with fruit trees and vegetable gardens, together with bird baths, fire pits etc will provide a relaxing outdoor space into the future. The 3D fly-through was very helpful and brought the plan to life. We are so happy with the end result, we can't wait to start landscaping. Thank you so much Justin."

    —Wendy Jefferies

  • "Justin has done a great job designing our garden for my wife and I. We have utmost confidence in what he has designed and started working on the landscaping. It is best to have it designed before rushing off and starting to do things. Justin is always professional and prompt at replying to queries. You are in a safe set of hands. Justin is meticulous in what he puts together along with the details. It makes hiring contractors so much easier knowing exactly what is required. The design process allowed for us to provide feedback several times along the way before the final plan was drawn up - so we were able to design the garden exactly how we had envisioned it along with some additional features that we would never have come up with ourselves. Worth every penny. I highly recommend Justin!"

    —Russell M

  • "Justin was an inspiration to work with and has designed our dream garden. His level of detail is astounding and he first produced a flyover so that we could visualize our garden. His thorough plans benefited the landscaper enormously. Our young garden is mostly complete and we are spending far more time out in it and we are welcoming in the wildlife like frogs, lizards, many bird species and native bees. This morning the blue faced honeyeater was drinking in the nectar from one of the kangaroo paws."

    —Elizabeth Carrigan

  • "Justin recently completed a garden design for my property and I couldn’t be happier with both the process and result. Throughput the planning process, Justin listened to and made useful suggestions regarding all aspects of the garden plan. The 3D fly-through of the concept really helped me visualise how the garden would look. Along with that, the meticulously devised plans and details make the intent crystal clear for me and the local landscapers. I’m looking forward to seeing it all come to fruition in the coming months. Thanks Justin."

    —Jenny Gilshenan

  • "Justin has shown professionalism in all steps of our design process. He listened to our ideas, understood our vision, was adaptable to the needs of our 5 acre block and our desire to implement the final plans ourselves. Thank you Justin for your prompt responses, keeping us very informed and answering our questions clearly. We've really enjoyed working with you and are very excited to watch our garden grow!"

    —Sylvia Brereton

  • "Justin did an excellent job in taking our ideas and thoughts, adding his own, and developing an amazing garden design. It not only looks beautiful, but is functional and practical and meets our brief of 'outdoor rooms' and less mowing! The whole process was enjoyable and transparent with good communication assisted by Justin's quick response to questions. We especially loved the 3D animated fly through showing our new garden design as a great addition to the very detailed flat plan. Working with Justin was an enjoyable and productive experience that we readily recommend to others."

    —Dawn & Paul

Justin Nigh | outdoor living master planner & client advocate

Design First. Build Second.

Founded by Justin Nigh, Regenerative Designs bridges the gap between architecture and nature. We apply rigorous design principles to the subtropical canvas of the Sunshine Coast. We design for the microclimate, we design for the topography, and most importantly, we design for you.

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