Design
Time has reinforced our belief that a well designed project creates a longer lasting finished product that you can take pride in. A design can evolve along many themes, from modern contemporary garden design, to a classic symmetrical balance with focal points. Our landscape planning tends create an organic natural style where we strive to blend your property into the native landscape to create a traditional New England look.
You are Encouraged to Participate
People like to be involved in landscaping their property so we approach the design process as a flow of information between us. Combining your desires with practical problem solving in a balanced composition leads to better results.
Initial Meeting
The design process begins with an introductory meeting where we tour your landscape. We can discuss and share ideas, consider your needs, the range and scope of your goals and identify design opportunities. We can then match a design approach to your project.
Design Fee
The time and cost of a design is reflected by your goals and the complexity of the project. The savings realized by taking advantage of the opportunity to plan ahead, anticipate problems, propose solutions, and focus the budget, will typically offset the cost of the landscape designer’s fee.
Design / Build
This is our most popular approach. It combines the advantages of a design process
with our landscape contruction experience.
- Preliminary Design Survey
We use a survey of landscape ideas and problem solving to encourage your feedback.
This helps to define your preferences and steer the project.
- Measuring and Analysis of Your Property
We study and measure your property to analyze the natural conditions and collect data. We then combine these observations with your survey input to create a scaled base map. This map is the foundation for the design process and a template from which concepts are reviewed and a landscape plan is completed.
- Concept Discussions
To help refine the possibilities, several concepts are considered. These concepts become a discussion outline to help evaluate and consider a project. As we narrow down the ideas you end up with a plan that has evolved to meet your needs. This brainstorming phase is the most important part of the design process and may take more than one meeting.
- Design and Itemized Cost Estimate
The final landscape design incorporates the ideas we have developed. With a landscape plan, accompanying specifications and a cost estimate you will know the materials, plantings, labor and equipment needed for New England Land Design to install it.
- Planning Budget
Each property presents different goals and challenges. The planning time needed for your project will be evaluated at our introduction meeting. The average cost of a typical Design/Build plan is $2,000.00
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