For Homeowners Who Are Ready to Say Yes and Let Us Handle the Rest
Key Takeaways
• A true design-build partner carries your project from the first site visit through the final walkthrough, design, permitting, and construction under one roof.
• The process starts with precise documentation: on-site measurements, drone photography, and walkthrough imagery that capture your property as it actually exists.
• Our landscape architect translates that documentation into one cohesive plan covering hardscape, landscape, lighting, and drainage, not separate pieces stitched together later.
• Material decisions happen in person. You see, touch, and compare real options before anything is finalized on paper.
• The same team that designs the plan builds it. Nothing gets handed off, and nothing gets lost in translation.
• Financing is available for qualified homeowners through our partner, Lyon Financial, with loan amounts up to $200,000 and terms up to 30 years.
• Full architectural planning, landscape, hardscape, lighting, and drainage legends plus 2D and 3D full color renderings, typically runs $10,000-$15,000, excluding surveying and soils/civil engineering when needed.
You don’t have to plan this yourself. You just have to say yes.
For homeowners ready to take on a high-caliber, properly planned project but who simply don’t know where to start, we take that stress off your plate entirely. You stay busy with work and life. We handle the heavy lifting: the site visits, the design, the material sourcing, the permits, the build, all of it, front yard and backyard alike, carried by one team from blank slate to finished space.
If that’s the kind of help you’re looking for, we’re your partner.
It Starts With Understanding the Property You Actually Have
Every proper plan begins with real documentation, not assumptions. We take precise site measurements, capture drone photography of the full property, and walk the site ourselves to photograph the details a satellite image can’t show. The goal is to recreate your property as an accurate canvas, one that our landscape architect can design against with confidence, rather than guesswork.
This matters most on larger properties in places like Newport Beach, Newport Coast, and San Juan Capistrano, where grade changes, mature landscaping, and existing structures all shape what’s realistic. A plan built on an inaccurate canvas costs you twice: once in redesign, and once in the field when reality doesn’t match the drawing.
One Plan, Not a Collection of Trades
From there, we move into design, working closely with our landscape architect to marry every element into a single, considered plan: hardscape, landscape, lighting, and drainage, developed together rather than layered on top of each other after the fact. Drainage that isn’t considered until after the hardscape is poured tends to become a problem. Lighting added as an afterthought rarely does the space justice. When these elements are planned as one system from the start, the result reads as intentional, because it is.
This is also where you’re educated on your materials, not handed a binder and left to decide alone. We walk you through the options and, where it adds real value, bring you to a supplier showroom to see stone, pavers, and finishes in person. Photos and samples only tell you so much. Standing in front of the actual material, in the light it will actually sit in, is what lets you choose with confidence instead of hoping it looks right once installed.
A full architectural plan at this stage, complete with landscape, hardscape, lighting, and drainage legends, along with 2D and 3D full color renderings, typically runs $10,000 to $15,000 depending on scope. That figure covers the design work itself; it doesn’t include surveying or soils and civil engineering, which some sloped or complex lots require separately.
For homeowners across Dana Point, San Clemente, and Laguna Hills who are managing demanding careers and don’t have bandwidth to chase down material options on their own time, this is the part of the process that gets handled for you, thoroughly, and without rushing the decision.
Permits and Construction, Carried Through by the Same Partner
A completed design is only half the work. Once the plan is finalized, we take on the permitting process required to build it, so approvals aren’t left for you to navigate on your own. And when construction begins, it’s carried out by our own crew, not subcontracted out to whoever is available that month.
That continuity is what lets you actually exhale. The same partner who designed your project also builds it, so the plan on paper and the project in your yard stay the same thing throughout, executed thoroughly, seamlessly, and on a realistic timeline. You’re not managing a relay between companies. You said yes once, and that’s the last hard part of the process.
Financing, Without the Runaround
For homeowners who want to move forward but would rather not tie up cash to do it, we also partner with Lyon Financial to make financing straightforward. Qualified homeowners can access loan amounts up to $200,000 with terms up to 30 years, no home equity or appraisal required. It’s one more piece of the project we help carry, rather than leaving you to sort out financing on your own.
Who This Is For
This process is built for a specific kind of project: one with real scope, front yard and backyard together, where the outcome matters enough to justify doing it right the first time. If you’ve been sitting on a property that deserves a proper plan and simply haven’t had the time to start one, that’s exactly the gap we’re built to close.
You bring the property and the vision. We bring the documentation, the design, the materials expertise, the permits, and the crew to build it, all from one partner, start to finish.
