Welcome!

Thank you for visiting our web site and congratulations on purchasing your new house. Now that you have settled in your beautiful new home, it's time to think about developing the property around your house. If you have a large lot, it might be a little overwhelming. After just a little research, you may be concerned about the drain on your time and financial resources. Don't worry, we have been through this experience ourselves and our mission is to help home owners like you with their landscape planning and execution. We believe that if you follow Your Master Plan, you will be able to have what you dream of in your landscape and control costs effectively.

Landscaping the property around your home is an opportunity to surround yourself with beauty and provide an enjoyable setting for your favorite outdoor activities. It's a way to put down roots, get in touch with nature, contribute to your community, and improve the environment. A well designed landscape will enhance your quality of life, and increases your property's value.

It might seem like a daunting task to landscape all the dirt around your property but having a Master Plan will make the process much easier and controls your cost as well. Having a Master Plan makes the process easier because you will have a clear view of where you are going and what you will have when you get there. The Master Plan can reduce the development cost as it will help you avoid pitfalls and missteps along the way. The Master Plan also helps you spread out the building and planting in to several phases to suit your budget.

What is a master Plan?

A Master Plan is a complete design for your landscaping and hardscaping. It is developed with inputs from the home owners and consideration for all family members. It starts with research and preparation and ends with Design. Here are some of the steps:

Research and Preparation
  • Meeting or interviewing the homeowners
  • Signing a contract
  • Base map preparation
  • Site inventory and analysis

Design

  • Design Program
  • Functional Diagram (conceptual)
  • Preliminary design (general)
  • Master Plan (specific)

Could you draft a master plan yourself? Probably not.
It is very rare for an untrained home owner to complete this task. You need to accurately map your existing landscape, juggle dozens of factors, and spend many hours sketching and tracing on overlays or computer screen as you draw and revise each change and addition. It is the thinking, not the drawing, that goes slowly. Sooner or later, you will probably get exasperated and give up.

We develop the design using Computer Aided Graphic Design software and digital photographs of your property. The advantages of this method for the home owner are:

  1. The home owner sees a realistic three dimensional color photo of the property. The client Makes decisions before the design process begins. There is no guess work. You see what you will get before spending a penny on construction or plant material.

  2. The computer generated design can be modified easily during development and after completion. In fact we offer a free change or addition to design within three months.

  3. Along with the 3D photo realistic color design we provide a 2D scaled plan drawing to be used by contractors and builders to complete the construction.

  4. The 3D color photo design will precisely communicate the design and expectations to contractors and builders

  5. A bill of materials is also provided listing all the plants, trees and materials required to complete the job. This is provided in a form of job cost estimate that will give the home owner an idea of the cost to implement the design. This is a very powerful tool for home owners as it allows the home owner to negotiate with contractors more efficiently and successfully. Basically, the contractors will not get away with over estimating the job materials cost.

  6. Plant care instructions for all the plants and trees in the design will be provided. This takes away the guess work from caring for the plants. It also gives you a realistic idea of how much work it will take to maintain the plants and trees.

Our Service is surprisingly affordable and pays for itself during the bidding and contracting phase by precisely communicating your specifications and ideas with the contractor.