Design-build
Design and build, one contract.
The whole yard, start to finish. We draw it, price it, permit it, build it and plant it, then look after it for a year. Projects run $80,000 to $400,000 and ten to twenty weeks on site.
What is included
Everything between the dirt you have now and the garden you eat dinner in, on one invoice.
- Site survey, soil test and a drainage plan that keeps water away from the house
- A hand drawn concept, then scaled construction drawings and a plant list with sizes
- Permits and engineering for walls, structures, gas and electrical, handled by us
- Grading, drainage, hardscape, structures, irrigation and lighting by our own crew
- Planting by our horticulturist, with every plant tagged at the nursery
- Four care visits in the first year, and a system map you can hand to anyone
The phases
Six steps, fixed price after the second.
- 01 Site walk
- Free, 40 minutes
- 02 Concept
- Plan and budget range
- 03 Drawings
- Fixed build price
- 04 Build
- 10 to 20 weeks
- 05 Planting
- Final two weeks
- 06 First year
- Four visits
The design fee is 8 to 12 percent of the build and comes off the final invoice when we build it. The build price is fixed at phase three, and the process page spells out the only two ways it can move.
Budget estimator
Put a range on your yard.
Yard size, scope and slope are what move a design-build number most. Set the three and see where you land before we ever meet.
An estimate from averages on our own jobs, not a quote. Soil, access, permits and finish choices move the real number. The site walk pins it down.
Design-build projects
Two whole yards, start to finish.
Smaller than a whole yard?
Most of what goes into a design-build project is available on its own. Start with the piece that bothers you most.