How much does a residential design cost?
Are you peering into your Vancouver yard imagining renovating and transforming your property? Dozens of questions may be swirling in your mind but one predominant, initial question will emerge when beginning the exciting journey of the landscape design process. “How much does a landscape design cost?”. Read on to learn more, but our costs starts at $750.
Why pay for a landscape design?
If your landscape design project incorporates multiple elements, paying a qualified landscape designer will be a worthwhile investment.
Projects with patios, pergolas, swimming pools, or strategically selected plants requires time to meticulously plan. Without using a landscape designer that spends hours planning out the details, you could end up blowing your budget or ending up with a design that turns into an installation nightmare.
You may be tempted by the offer of a landscape contractor to not charge for their landscape design, but remember you most often get what you pay for.
Planning out details such as making sure irrigation functions properly, plants that are installed with the right light exposure, or outdoor kitchens or pools that consider your site’s slopes, utility lines, and city codes requires time. If a company is offering to just give you a plan for nothing, be careful that you aren’t heading for future headaches.
It’s also been an unfortunate and common experience for us to meet potential customers that have been given an impractical design by an independent landscape designer that ended up being drastically out of their budget when finally estimated.
Unfortunately, most independent landscape designers generally don’t have the actual experience of installing their designs. This is an unfortunate and common challenge. They often create a design and send it out to bid to numerous contractors to find the cheapest way to get the project done in their overextended budget. Using subcontractors to install their work often leads to poor quality installation or later realizing that the proposed design will be a construction impossibility.
Neighborhood Lawn Care knows that this can be extremely frustrating to a homeowner that has paid good money for a landscape design. To keep this from happening, we clarify a budget before a landscape design is even completed.
After meeting with our landscape designer to discuss the basic scope of your project we seek to find a budget range that will include the elements you require to transform your property. After agreeing on the scope and general cost, a landscape design fee is collected.
This fee is not simply a charge for someone to draw a pretty plan. Our landscape designer will create a comprehensive plan that fits within the agreed project budget to help our own landscape construction installation team to achieve your design goals. Many hours of careful research and planning will make sure your project’s plan is a success and meets the standards and codes of your municipality.
Projects with patios, pergolas, swimming pools, or strategically selected plants requires time to meticulously plan. Without using a landscape designer that spends hours planning out the details, you could end up blowing your budget or ending up with a design that turns into an installation nightmare.
You may be tempted by the offer of a landscape contractor to not charge for their landscape design, but remember you most often get what you pay for.
Planning out details such as making sure irrigation functions properly, plants that are installed with the right light exposure, or outdoor kitchens or pools that consider your site’s slopes, utility lines, and city codes requires time. If a company is offering to just give you a plan for nothing, be careful that you aren’t heading for future headaches.
It’s also been an unfortunate and common experience for us to meet potential customers that have been given an impractical design by an independent landscape designer that ended up being drastically out of their budget when finally estimated.
Unfortunately, most independent landscape designers generally don’t have the actual experience of installing their designs. This is an unfortunate and common challenge. They often create a design and send it out to bid to numerous contractors to find the cheapest way to get the project done in their overextended budget. Using subcontractors to install their work often leads to poor quality installation or later realizing that the proposed design will be a construction impossibility.
Neighborhood Lawn Care knows that this can be extremely frustrating to a homeowner that has paid good money for a landscape design. To keep this from happening, we clarify a budget before a landscape design is even completed.
After meeting with our landscape designer to discuss the basic scope of your project we seek to find a budget range that will include the elements you require to transform your property. After agreeing on the scope and general cost, a landscape design fee is collected.
This fee is not simply a charge for someone to draw a pretty plan. Our landscape designer will create a comprehensive plan that fits within the agreed project budget to help our own landscape construction installation team to achieve your design goals. Many hours of careful research and planning will make sure your project’s plan is a success and meets the standards and codes of your municipality.
How Much Does a Landscape Design Cost?
We understand that property owners need to reap rewards from paying for an expert plan while still feeling comfortable with handing over the funds for a design fee.
- The national average cost for a landscape design varies from $2,600 to $4,600.
- Some landscape architects can even charge upwards to $11,000 for residential projects!
- Neighborhood Lawn Care has competitively placed our fee at $750 for the majority of our projects.
Landscape Design
From small projects to big, we can work with you. For landscape design projects, we will sit down with you to find out what you are looking for. Landscape design takes work and creativity, neither of which are quick or easy. Even the smallest projects take time, as we scour the nursery for the best plants and the most vibrant colors for your landscape. Our fee for landscape design consultation projects starts at $750. This consists of approximately 10 hours related to your design (travel time, pre and post production, research, CAD time, areal imagery, GIS servey, etc.)
(Some of our samples videos can be seen below).
(Some of our samples videos can be seen below).
Landscape Styles
There is no real "right" landscape design. It's your property, so whatever you like is the right way. But with so many options, and the advent of social media, like Pinterest, it can quickly become overwhelming with picking a style. The four main styles are: Traditional, Cottage, Modern, and Natural.
|
|
Ridgefield Backyard
Here we have a backyard re-imaged from builder grade, to custom. Our client in Ridgefield needed something...more... out of her backyard living space. We kept it simple, yet elegant. With custom trellis' to give privacy from the neighbors, and outdoor lighting to make this a year round area to enjoy.
Landscape Design: $750 Patio Extension: $3,000 Custom Trellis: $2,275 Landscape Construction: $5,400 Outdoor Lighting: $3,300 |
|
|
