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The Design Starts with You

Starting the Conversation

We stay flexible in the early design and remain open to many options. Feel free to reach out even if you don’t have a firm idea, we can ideate together.

Our Process

Your vision is captured through our conversation by email or phone to make sure we understand the key elements. After our digital review of the property, using GIS and county utility records, we’ll schedule a Walkthrough. Our Walkthrough will survey existing conditions, while ideating solutions to fit your needs. During our walkthrough we record audio for you to look back on, and for us to reflect on during the later design stages. We stay flexible in the early design and remain open to many options. Once we create a CAD concept plan, we meet digitally to discuss in detail. This is typically about an hour. We discuss your timing, phasing, plant and material preferences, then return to our drafting tables to create the master plan. This includes a planting plan, phasing plan, and material details. We’ll meet one more time to discuss the Master Plan in detail, including 1hr of revisions afterward if needed. At project end we summarize and provide either ROMs, project estimates, and scheduling as desired.

Questions to Consider

  1. What functions do you want your space to serve?

    (Social, personal, food propagation, aesthetic, etc.)

  2. What level of maintenance?

    (Low-maintenance, drought-resistant, xeriscaped, self-sustaining garden)

  3. What Style appeals to you?

    (Naturalist, Shaped, NW natives, Japanese, English, etc.)

  4. What issues exist?

    (Invasive plants, sun profile, pests, privacy, noise, etc.)

  5. How much time do you have?

    (Can you wait for the plants to grow in? Do you want to install certain elements yourself? Do you want to phase the install seasonally?)

 

Permaculture Design

Permaculture is a conscious productive design system which has the diversity, stability, and resiliency of natural ecosystems. Permaculture aims to provide one's food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in an ecological way.