Outside In

Denise Staffa

Managing Director / Principal Landscape Designer

Denise has 15 years extensive experience in hands on landscaping, landscape architectural design with qualifications as a horticulturist and landscape designer.

Her passion for the outdoors started as she spent of her younger years adventuring throughout Australia and abroad. Born and bred in the Kimberley’s, Western Australia, Denise has always been very attached to the Australian environment with its unique, naturally rugged appeal and rich textures.  This was the foundation for her love of all that is outdoors and her desire to connect people with nature.

Prominent amongst Denise’s landscape design skills is the ability to transform land mass using a practical eye and listening to the client. Integrating natural and manmade elements into what was existing, while creating function, form and timeless beauty for many to enjoy.

Denise Staffa masters the initial key turning points in landscape design with client briefing, listening and establishing needs, inspires landscape design solutions and determines landscaping design criteria.

The landscape design team implement landscape planning whilst she continually strives to resource and research materials for individual works as well as managing design issues, risks, and quality of completed landscape design works.

Justyna Zaniewska

Landscape Architect and Designer

Justyna Zaniewska started and completed her Landscape Architecture studies in Poland at Technical University of Cracow. She holds Master of Science in Landscape Architecture degree.

Her knowledge covers: Landscape Designing, Civil Engineering constructions for Landscape Architecture, History of Architecture and Garden Designing, Computer Technologies in Designing, Biological studies and Art.

Before she came to Australia she was working in Poland for As Studio in Cracow as an Designer, spent six months as an Architecture Consultant on an International Project for the Regional Institute of Culture (MIK) in Cracow and also for a year she was Lecturer Assistant at Landscape Designing and Theory of Landscape Architecture and Design classes at Technical Univ. of Cracow.

Her resume and experience boasts a myriad of projects such as Urban Landscape Designs of Public Spaces and Marker Squares, Private Gardens Designs, and Historical Conservation Designs.

Outside In welcomed Justyna in 2009, through an International Work Experience Program. Her skills, abilities and passion are so outstanding that now they proudly sponsor Justyna as a valued full-time team member.

Her presence and design input are inspiring, her passion and talent in artistic drawing through visual media enhances Outside In's leadership in 3D Landscape Designing and is now her primary role within the company. Along with Urban and Civil Landscape Design within the commercial sector, clients liaison, working drawings and specifications, site analysis and site surveying.

Fiona Zijun Hunang

Landscape designer – Landscape Architect Student UWA

Fiona is currently an undergraduate student of landscape architecture at the University of Western Australia and has been studying full-time for the past 3 years.  She has built her knowledge by systematically studying large scale urban planning to private residential garden designs and history of landscape architecture and arts.

Fiona joined Outside In, in 2009 as a part-time team member whilst she continues her studies, utilising and putting into practice her architectural landscape design knowledge combined with her expertise and skills in computer design.

With her passion and keenness to excel in her chosen career, Outside In’s desire to support such dedication now finds Fiona playing an important role in producing high quality 2D landscape design conceptual and master plans, using the latest in landscape design rendering software, along with compiling planting guides, plant data information and cultural notes for individual landscape designs produced.

Beverely Steele

Customer Relations and Administration

Bev joined Outside In, in 2009 to initiate her dream of having a career within the landscaping industry. Outside In are extremely proud to have such eagerness within the company structure.

Whilst putting her dream into action by taking up horticultural and landscape design studies at Murdoch Tafe Western Australia, Bev has become a valued part-time team member.

Bev now combines past extensive experience in office management, being qualified within the human resources field and her desire to learn and grow within the landscaping industry. She has become the backbone to customer relations and administration, injecting an enormous amount of support for all team members.

Her primary role ensures high levels of communication and customer relations at all times, smooth running of the office, compiling project estimations and scope of works for client submittal, assisting the project manager with project budgets and scheduling, contractual works, assisting in the ordering of project materials and greenstock selection.

Bev’s passion and keen interest toward Outside In’s water walls, outdoor screen art and lightboxes displayed in their showroom, enables her to assist clients with information and sales of these exclusive products.