Transform Your Outdoor Space
with Expert Landscape Design
Discover the art of exceptional landscape design, where every element is meticulously tailored to enhance both beauty and function. Our experts transform outdoor spaces into stunning sanctuaries that reflect your vision and lifestyle. Let us design your yard today and turn underutilized space on your property into your favorite room in the house.
Specializing in
Hardscapes
Specializing in brick and stone, we have the expertise to create stunning hardscapes for the discerning property owner. Our patio designs are a reflection of the existing home’s style and the client’s desire for their space. This patio uses brick to tie into the home and stone to reflect on the home’s mountain location. A patio is one of the most cost-effective ways of increasing a home’s living space and usually becomes the focal point of family gatherings.
Landscapes
We work alongside our clients to identify their individual styles and needs, ensuring our designs are both beautiful and functional. Our goal is to create the dream landscape for your dream home. We also recognize the reality of maintaining a landscape and keep that in the forefront of design. We select trees and shrubs for their hardiness and size in addition to beauty. This leaves minimal pruning and shrub loss throughout the life of the garden.
Site Planning
Have a challenging property? Employ our creative solutions to maximize property functionality and beauty. We identify and flag unique specimens before clearing fostering a healthier, more diverse native ecosystem. We try to keep natural curves and slopes in our sites like a golf course and promote sheet flow runoff over channelization to prevent site erosion. Our site plans strive to integrate your home or project into the surrounding landscape and make it feel like it is supposed to be there.
Why should you renovate your landscape?
Increase Property Value
A good landscape will increase a property’s value. An excellent landscape can increase a property’s value by 12% according to Virginia Tech research. Why wait to improve your property when you can create the yard of your dreams, enjoy it for years and still generate a profit.
Create more useable space
With building costs around $250 a square foot, an updated patio and garden is the smart way to increase your home’s useable space. A patio or hardscape costs about 10% of the cost of a similar sized room. Add a grill or fireplace and some furniture and this will quickly become your family’s favorite place to hang out.
Save Money
Thoughtful landscape design saves money in the long run. Installation cost is only a small portion of the cost of a landscape. After years of mowing, blowing, trimming, clipping, weeding, watering and mulching the initial cost of the landscape becomes insignificant. A well designed landscape can minimize these costs while an unplanned garden will compound costs. We have years of experience in maintenance in addition to landscape design and incorporate this to create landscapes that are as easy to maintain as they are beautiful.
Save Water
Using waterwise designs we are able to save water, saving money. Through site grading and soil amendment more water retains on site requiring less supplemental irrigation. By choosing native and drought tolerant plants our gardens look better through ever-increasing droughts. This also means fewer plants dying and needing replacement saving more money over the life of the landscape.
About
our company
We are a Landscape Design firm based in Athens GA that specializes in garden foundation shrubbery and patio design. Our lead designer and principal, Christopher Rurka, is trained in landscape architecture and has over ten years of experience in the landscaping industry doing installation and upkeep. Our team knows what it takes to maintain a landscape and keeps ease of maintenance central in design. We pride ourselves in being a value-forward business in that we provide reasonably priced designs using durable plant materials in easy-to-maintain layouts. Lower maintenance usually looks better long term as people tend to give up caring for complicated flower beds. Our designs are for the client’s pleasure and not our ego. We are passionate about our environment and integrate conservation into our plans whenever possible without impacting useability. Depending on the project we can plan, manage or complete the buildout entirely in-house ensuring the client’s vision is fulfilled.
Contact Us
If you are thinking about renovating a landscape send us an email with a few photos. We will be happy to learn about your project and provide professional advice. We work on a wide variety of projects and are eager to find a design solution that meets your project’s objectives.