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Online
Landscape Design
Are you a
busy person who wants a beautiful garden but doesn't want to pay the
usual fees? Then our online landscape design and garden design
service may be just what you're looking for.
Through our online
landscape design service, you can get assistance from professional,
highly talented designers for a reasonable fee because you've
eliminated the high cost of travel and repeated site visits.
Instead, you send pictures of your property and
you...
Let Us
Get To Know You
Your landscape design should arise from the
nature of your property and the people who live there. Any design
that reflects the designer rather than you, the client, no matter
how clever or attractive that design may be, is a failure. We will
find the design that you are seeking, for your
property, with your help.
So this is the first step in our
online landscape design service - getting to know you. We don't need
to know your age or your sex, your political views or religious
orientation (though if you think those are important to your garden,
we do). We don't even need to know your name or your address.
Tell us what you like and
what you are like - what inspires you, what gives you happiness, and
how you want to use your garden.
You have no doubt
thought a lot about it, and perhaps you've seen images in magazines
and on TV that moved you. You may have a sense of something you'd
like but you feel it would be helpful to have professional advice
from people who spend their lives creating gardens for others. That
is why you're on this online landscape design page and that is why
the page is here.
Through our online landscape design
service you'll receive personal attention and devoted assistance
from proven professionals whose sole intent is to give you a garden
you will love. That is our commitment, and if you do not receive a
design that is beyond your expectations you will not be asked to
pay. Concerning which...
Design
Fees
Traditionally, landscape design fees and garden design fees
are calculated to be about 15% to 20% of the cost of implementation
and it usually does work out to be close to that figure. However,
there are two problems with that formula. First, how can you
determine the cost of the implementation until the design is
completely done, working drawings are completed, and bids on all the
work received? You can't. So are you, the homeowner, expected to go
into the design phase with anended budget? We don't think
so.
The other problem is that this represents a potential
conflict of interest. It's all too easy to intentionally design an
expensive landscape for the sake of elevating the design fee. Which
is why you will...
Know Your Costs Before You Begin
Our online landscape
design service works like this. Once we know something about you and
see a few pictures of your property we will tell you exactly how
much the design fees will be. If you are not completely happy with
the design we do, we will take it back to the drafting table. The
fee will not go up. If it takes a third time (and it rarely does but
it can happen), the original fee that you were quoted will remain as
quoted. It will not go up and we will stay with it until you have
a design you love, or we refund your deposit. This guarantee is
an integral part of our online landscape design service.
For
example, the figures below are typical of how you can save money by
using the Online Design service as opposed to the traditional design
service. (Note that by medium and small we are really
referring to complexity:
| On-site Design Fee |
Online Design Fee |
Medium Sized
Project:
$3,500 - $4,500 |
$1,500 - $2,500 |
Smaller
Project:
$1,500 - $2,500 |
$850 - $1,200 |
There are no
hidden costs, there are no catches. Our one intent is to help you
achieve a beautiful garden that perfectly meets your needs and
reflects your sense of aesthetics while harmonizing with your
property. We do this because we can. We are good at what we do, and,
as the many comments from our clients testify, we enjoy doing
it. This applies as much to online landscape design as it does to
on-site projects.
So Tell Us About Yourself
And if you have a
family, tell us about them.
- Do you have pets? Don't forget them. A landscape design that
does not include the fact of a dog or an outdoor cat will be a
landscape design that fails.
- Do you have children? How many, what ages, and what do they
like to do?
- What does your spouse like? Sometimes spouses are very similar
in their tastes and sometimes they are very different. We
need to know about your spouse's tastes because you would probably
be amazed at the possibilities for a unified landscape design that
thoroughly pleases you both. That is the beauty of design. When
properly approached, it really works.
- Tell us how you would like to use the space, if you entertain
and for how many.
- Do you like water features?
- Raised beds?
- Do you want to grow vegetables?
- Would you like to dine in the garden?
- What are your favorite plants? Make a wish list and don't be
too practical at this point. You may be surprised at how much even
a small space can harmoniously contain.
You're just
about ready to begin the online landscape design process. Use the
blank form below to tell us everything you can think of that might
help us know what you like and what you are like. Virtually
everything you say, no matter what you say, will be
helpful.
We've been doing this for a long time and our
ability to see into and get to know someone's tastes and preferences
from very little information has been honed to a fine skill.
Especially when that information is accompanied
by...
Pictures
Send us your pictures. These are an essential
component of the online landscape design process. We need to see
your space or property and the pictures you take are crucial. If you
have a digital camera, great. You can email the pictures. Otherwise,
please use the post.
Tips For Taking Photos:
- Stand in one corner of your garden and take a series of
pictures that will show the entire space, one picture slightly
overlapping another, from that spot. Then do the same from the
other corners.
- If you have an upstairs room looking down on the garden area,
take one from there too.
And don't forget to
include...
A
Drawing
A simple sketch, really, doesn't even need to be neat or have
straight lines. Just so long as we know the dimensions of your
property, how long, how wide...with the features that 'Really Must
Remain' designated. But think about that because there may be a lot
of seemingly 'permanent' elements that can be relocated or
altogether removed, quite inexpensively. If you're in doubt, say
that and we'll figure it out.
So here it is -
The Online Landscape Design
Form
We've put in a few check boxes for ease and
asked a few questions, like what state, region or country you live
in, because they are important, especially in online landscape
design work, but for the most part we'd like you to ramble. Don't be
concerned with spelling, order or grammar. Just express yourself and
your hopes and wishes.
Write the name you wish to be called.
Once we've received the form we'll contact you by whatever means you
specify and we'll go over it all. There is no commitment on your
part to our online landscape design service at this point. We'll let
you know the expected design fee and you can decide then if you're
ready to go ahead.
Just fill in the form and click
the submit button:
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