Raoul van de Laak and Ron Berkelmans have known each other since their junior schooldays in the Netherlands. They followed their passion for the outdoors and studied Landscape Architecture both in The Netherlands and Brussels. They established Good Manors in 1986, approaching garden design from an architectural point of view in creating gardens 'that become like outside rooms'. A strong focus on proportion, detail and quality execution has made them a business that has now been setting benchmarks in the design, construction and maintenance of Sydney's residential gardens for sixteen years.