Integrity Home Hardscape & Tree Designs of Virginia Beautiful & Amazing Landscape Design Front yard Tree & Shrub Designs HomeUncategorizedFront yard Tree & Shrub Designs Front yard Tree & Shrub Designs Landscape Designer October 27, 2019 Uncategorized No Comments Budget & Planning Have you and your partner decided to update the front of your home with the intent of adding a new layer of beauty to your property? Making sure you have the right approach and planning accordingly will set you up for success when the actual work happens. Take for instance you are looking to rip out your current driveway and add a new brick driveway. Not only that, but you are actually looking to redesign the layout as well as add new mulch beds and tree shrubs. Our team typically approaches a project by first assessing each phase of the project and the impact of change in each phase. Many homeowners find that going for high impact items at the beginning of project brings much added joy and pleasure based on having new curb appeal. Home owners should be well aware that in most cases the impact phase of the project could potentially also be the highest cost of the project. However, if you spread the work in phases as we often do, you will find that budgeting each phase may be more of suitable approach for you. If your looking at a relatively big driveway say 100 ft – 120 ft long with a width of 10 ft with additional access points, your cost could very well be $20k alone for the driveway itself with a middle of the road cement brick. Success With A 3 Phrase Approach In the great state of Virginia, we find that may of our previous clients love our 3 phrase approach. If you are looking to redesign your front yard, we can have the blueprint plan completed within one week after a planning meeting with the homeowner. We like to break out each project into 3 distinct working phases. The first phase is the structural redesign and installation phase. In this phase we typically remove an old driveway as well as any unwanted wall structures. We then redesign and install new brick or cement driveway along with any retaining wall structure if desired by the homeowner. This phase is typically the most costly as it requires a lot of material and hard work. Time frames for completion can vary from 1 month to 2 months. The second phase is strictly about designing gardens, beds and designing landscape trees and shrub layout. In this phase there is typically a fair amount of soft touches that we pay special attention to. The inventory of tree types and shrub types is very important as the growth of each tree and shrub must be factored into the design. Our team will then either pull the needed trees and shrubs from our own inventory as well as place an order. Installation begins once all tree and shrubs are in our possession. In the third phase we focus more on the soft touches of the landscape. In this phase the is little emphasis placed on hard scape work other than installation of sod and new grass. Our team will go over any misaligned points as well as review all of the tree work and reshaping of existing trees. We will make minor corrections if needed and will further trim any trees and shrubs to ensure it 100% matches the original blueprint. Project End & Review At this point, our team will wrap up the end of the project will complete any remaining final touches. Most of the final touches have been completed in the previous phase and at this point it is a matter of reviewing each item on the blueprint plan for a second and third time to ensure nothing was missed. We at times may find a very minor correction but typically at this phase of the project its a matter of formality. Homeowner is brought in to review all aspects of the completed project which typically takes 30 min. to 60 min. « Backyard Hardscape Designs Arborvitae Trees For Your Home » Recent Posts Landscape Safety Arborvitae Trees For Your Home Front Yard Tree & Shrub Designs Backyard Hardscape Designs Recent Comments Archives August 2020 April 2020 October 2019 Categories Uncategorized Meta Log In Entries Feed Comments Feed WordPress.Org Powered by Gardenia WordPress Theme