Landscape Design
Create the Spaces for Your Indoor-Outdoor Living
Do you need a yard make-over? Perhaps you have some green or built elements, but they need an upgrade to increase their aesthetics, cohesion, and connectivity to make them inviting and useful spaces. Do you work from home and could benefit from additional space to use as your outdoor office when weather permits? Are you interested in installation of sustainable landscape design choices with native plants and bird and habitat friendly? Or are you interested in low-maintenance landscapes that are heat and drought tolerant?
A well-designed landscape does more than just beautify your property—it transforms your outdoor space into a beautiful, functional extension of your home. Whether you’re looking to enhance your front yard’s curb appeal or create a tranquil backyard retreat, my landscape design services combine creativity and expertise to bring your vision to life. I specialize in creating outdoor living spaces that transform your yard into a beautiful, functional extension of your home.
A primary goal of my landscape design services is to create opportunities for indoor-outdoor living. This expands your livable square footage into the outdoors, giving you more room to entertain, relax, and make lasting memories with friends and family. Whether you’re dreaming of a cozy fire pit, a gourmet outdoor kitchen, or a lush garden retreat, my goal is to help you visualize, prioritize, design, and install your spaces for indoor-outdoor living. I am mindful to always design and build spaces that optimize home’s beauty, functionality, and value. Whether you’re starting from scratch or enhancing an existing space, my landscape design and installation services will work with you to create your perfect outdoor retreat.
From Mud to Outdoor Living
Both sliders show two different angles of the transformational before and after of a comprehensive new outdoor living space. It includes a new deck and stairs, new patio, and gardening and lighting. The design of this deck included stairs and hardscaping that connect the upper and lower levels and created access to the backyard from the main level. This project literally went from mud to delightful outdoor living.
Bringing it All Together
This images below illustrates how I design and install hardscaping as part of an overall landscape approach. After installing the new stairs to improve to safety and access, I installed hearty azaleas and spartan junipers beauty. Together the junipers, trellis and climbing plants create a natural ‘fence’ for privacy.Both sliders show two different angles of the transformational before and after of a comprehensive new outdoor living space. It includes a new deck and stairs, new patio, and gardening and lighting. The design of this deck included stairs and hardscaping that connect the upper and lower levels and created access to the backyard from the main level. This project literally went from mud to delightful outdoor living.
Landscape Design Gallery
My Landscape Design Services
My landscape design services are tailored to enhance your yard’s natural beauty, with a focus on sustainability and ease of maintenance. Many people might think of landscape design as ‘garden design’. Garden design is certainly a central part of landscape design, but goes hand-in-hand with usable built spaces such as patios and hardscaping or decks and other outdoor structures. My landscape designs combine green spaces with hardscaping to improve safe access, address problem areas such as sloping terrain, and address challenging areas with a mix of beauty and functionality.
Designed for You
Whether you work from home, or just love the outdoors, I will work with you to design and construct your outdoor spaces based on how you like to spend your time and the natural features of your property. This could include patios for outdoor relaxing and entertaining, fire pits to gather under the stars, sheds that provide extra storage, or greenhouses and container gardens for your outdoor hobbies.
A Mix of Green and Built Features
This picture illustrates how I use landscape design principles to combine gardens or green areas as central features complemented by built features. By ‘built features’, I am referring to patio and hardscaping as well as any decks and outdoor structures you would like. I will work with you to design spaces that weave these features together to create cohesive and harmonious retreats.
Outdoor Lighting
My lighting solutions increase the functionality of your outdoor spaces by allowing you to enjoy your outdoor space well into the evening, creating a welcoming atmosphere for entertaining or relaxation. Whether you’re looking for direct wire motion-sensor lights for security or low-voltage path and accent lights, my outdoor lighting services will ensure your outdoor area is well-lit and beautiful.
Water Features
Adding a simple fountain or more complex water features is a great way to mask noise by adding the sound of flowing water. Water features also provide a peaceful ambiance and can serve as a focal point in your landscape. I can help you select and source or install a water features that blend naturally into your surroundings, adding elegance and a calming soundscape to your yard.
Design Solutions for Difficult Side Yard
These before and after sliders show the hardscaping solution to allow access through the side yard to the back yard. It included creating a flat area for the bins, safe stairs, and greenery flanking the stairs for aesthetics, weed management, and erosion control.
Garden Design
Lush greenery and well-placed plants are key to creating a beautiful outdoor living area. I design custom gardens that are tailored to your site properties and personal preference. The two sliders below show how garden make-overs can enhance your curb appeal and create inviting, usable spaces. These two garden designed included patios and hardscaping elements that anchored the space and provided access for indoor-outdoor living.
Grow Your Hobby with Container Gardens
My goal in landscape design for indoor-outdoor living is to create focal points and pull factors that draw you outdoors. If you are interested in herb, vegetable, or flower gardening, I can help you design and install raised gardens, greenhouses, and shed or other outdoor structures for your tools and supplies. I recommend modular raised gardens from Vego.
What are the Next Steps?
Are you ready to start landscape design for your indoor-outdoor living? Request a consultation with me to discuss your project scope and budget.
My focus for providing landscape design services is on expeditiously reaching a design plan and optimize your budget and adding value by focusing on construction and installation of any green or built features. My approach is to assess your properties features and your needs, and propose conceptual design ideas and schematic drawings for your approval to move forward. Rather than producing detailed drawings, I focus on helping you install your priority features such as patios and hardscaping, deck or outdoor structures, and green spaces and gardens.
If you would like to move forward, I will send you a fixed-price quote including materials, labor, and any equipment and services. Where possible, I provide my clients with task-specific pricing options so you can mix and match given your budget and priorities. The final step is to sign a home improvement contract agreement detailing the description of services and materials and other details. My approach is straight forward and to have clear communication and expectations as we work together. Let’s build and blossom together!