Reviews about the hard parts
Slopes, wet ground, trees worth keeping. Every review on this page is a sample written for the demo, so you can see the kind of detail we ask clients to share.
Our back yard dropped twelve feet and the old wall was leaning. They drew two terraces instead of one big wall and showed us the engineer's notes before we signed. The kids play on the lower level now.
The corner by the fence was wet seven months a year. The drain they put along the low edge of the terrace is the reason we can sit out there in March.
We gave up on lawn under the firs. The planting plan named every fern and shrub, said what it would look like in three years, and so far it has been right.
They asked how we cook before they drew anything. Landing space on both sides of the grill sounds small. It changed how we use the whole yard.
The builder's lawn never drained. They dug test holes on the first visit and showed us the clay before they quoted anything. The new beds have stayed dry through two winters.
We have three big cedars we were told to remove by someone else. The plan kept all three and routed the path round their roots. That was the reason we hired them.
Thinking about the yard before next summer?
Start with one conversation. A designer walks the property with you for about an hour. You leave knowing what is possible, roughly what it costs, and how long design and build take.