Matthew L.
Yelp
Quality service is done here with Ramsey and his team at Visualized Landscaping. I tried searching for many landscapers and most of them scalp for your money overpricing their design and product. If you want to skip all that stress, go straight to these guys.
Although it is still fairly pricey, you are paying for what you visualized to be the dream yard you wanted and planned for a long time.
Most people who you would pay cheap for ends up being a big mistake because they tend to go for non-contractors/ laborers picked up from the side of the road with some skill to do the bare minimal. That's not always good. You need a licensed professional who follows state codes just like Visualized Landscape! Otherwise HOA or state would have your rip up your backyard and do it again properly, which means more money out of your pocket.
Initially, Ramsey would have a designer come out to your property to do measurements and go over details on what you want visualized into a design. The initial design process is $500 but it goes towards your total contract invoice of the project including materials and labor.
Then, they give you a 3D design and 2D renderings of your yard project. If there were things not to your liking initially, they can go over it with you and make changes to the design free of cost. But if you keep changing your design, they will charge you a little more. You have the freedom of changing your design anytime during the project as well. Again, they will have to charge you for any materials they would need to order and replace. They're also pretty good at communicating, so if you had some ideas, always let them know your changes in advance before they order materials you don't need.
For my design, I had them lay out the entire list of costs to each projects. This way, if you had a low budget to begin with, you know what to start off with first and then what you would need to finish later. So of course, you have to get your foundation and flooring done first. If you wanted a solid top pergola to go in, they would need to dig and put in cement footings below ground in advance. Cheaper than ripping up the floor later to install and replace in the future.
I didn't just have them level out my hard and install pavers, I also had them install drainage for flooding on rainy days. I also had them lay around wiring throughout the ground for future lighting I want to install when I decide to do planting/gardening or make certain features with lights. Then I even had them install irrigation for these future plants. They wired the irrigation to a water system I already have in my garage.
I went with grays and blacks for my pavers. Installed an elevated paver platform in the corner of my yard. Including matching gray colored stepping stone slabs, turf, and gravel.
I connected my backyard to my front driveway with a pavered pathway held up on a retaining wall because my house is on a higher slope than my neighbors and it came out beautiful with pathway lights installed as well. I'll show videos attached.
Again with everything I described, everything came out to be around $15000