© Jeff Bartee
Our Design Process
Inquiry - Contact Us to share your dreams for your new landscape! We'll send over detailed information about our practice and pricing along with a link to set up a 15-minute discovery session, making sure that we're the best fit for your project.
Initial Consultation - After our phone call we can schedule an initial consultation at your home. During this meeting we will determine the scope of work for the project, review your inspiration photos, discuss design direction and potential challenges and provide initial ideas for how we can meet your design goals. We will follow up with a written proposal summarizing our meeting and a contract outlining our fees and deliverables. The initial consultation typically takes 1-2 hours and costs $200.
Site Analysis - If you have an existing survey or blueprints from a home remodel, we can use those to create a site map for the landscape design. If not we will refer you to a qualified measuring service to take precise measurements and create a CAD base map. Once we have an accurate base map of the site we visit to analyze site conditions and begin sketching layout options.
Preliminary Design - We present full color preliminary CAD drawings of up to two options for proposed layout, hardscape and plant palette and solicit your feedback. Through this process, with revisions if necessary, we arrive at the perfect conceptual design.
Master Plan - We create all the documentation you will need to solicit competitive bids from licensed landscape contractors.
Planning Documentation - We prepare all necessary documents to submit to your town's planning department for approvals.
Bidding - We refer you to one of our preferred, highly qualified, licensed contractors . Should you choose to get a second bid we will assist you in analyzing the bids and follow up with the contractors to answer any questions.
Construction - We work side by side with one of our preferred contractor to ensure a seamless, installation process. We guide you through each and every finishing touch, from plant placement to furniture and accessory selection.
Preliminary design plan example.
“Kristen is very professional, easy to work with, and proactive in offering solutions. She not only delivered on the proposal but also went above and beyond to ensure the contractors were implementing everything to her (and our) high standards. We are so happy with our yard!”