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What Should I Bring to My First Landscape Design Meeting?

This is how your dreams take shape. Your first connection with a Hursthouse landscape architect is critical – and it’s usually a lot of fun!

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How to Plan and Budget

What’s a conceptual landscape design?

How do your landscaping ideas, needs and preferences turn into a construction-ready plan? You’ll get there by collaborating with your landscape architect on some conceptual designs. Here’s how it works.

With so many options for outdoor firepits, we've narrowed down the cost of some popular types to choose from to fit your lifestyle and budget.

How Much Does It Cost To Install a Firepit?

Patios can be created with a wide variety of materials and budgets. We'll discuss what kind of patio could work best for you.

How Much Does It Cost To Install A Patio?

Take a deep dive into why a mason firepit may be the right choice for your outdoor space.

The Cost & Benefits of a Mason Firepit

Learn the difference in cost and material for installing an outdoor kit fireplace vs a custom outdoor fireplace.

Custom And Kit Outdoor Fireplaces

The construction methodology used to create your patio is an important detail that you should take in consideration when planning your outdoor space.

Construction Methods For A New Patio

An outdoor kitchen is the ultimate gathering place for your backyard barbecues. Learn how to get the most out of your space!

How To Plan Your Outdoor Kitchen

The campfire ring is a cost-effective and great looking option to enjoy toasting marshmallows all year round.

The Cost For a Professionally Installed Campfire

These 5 tips will help ensure your new landscape not only looks fabulous all year, but also functions great.

The 5 Rules of Fabulous Landscape Design

Outdoor living includes outdoor eating. Sometimes, it’s as simple as stepping outside with a morning cup of coffee or a favorite snack while you take in your landscape. Other times, you’d like a little more.

What Determines the Cost of My Outdoor Kitchen?

When you budget for a patio, there are three factors to consider. What is your patio’s design? What’s it made of? And, what construction methodology will your landscape contractor use?

How Does My Patio’s Construction Method Affect its Cost?

There’s more than one way to patio. And if you’re considering an outdoor living space, your landscape architect will have a lot of options for your patio materials.

How do Different Patio Surfaces Affect My Landscaping Budget?

You don’t have to be inside to curl up by the fireplace. In fact, outdoor fireplaces are a wonderful way to define an “outdoor living room."

How Will an Outdoor Fireplace Affect My Landscape and Budget?

Campfire rings are a less temporary way to enjoy gathering around a fire year-round – and at a fraction of the impact to your budget that a fire pit or outdoor fireplace might make.

How Will a Campfire Ring Affect my Landscape and Budget?

There are a lot of ways to choose fire for your landscape. Each option feels and works a little differently – and each will have a different impact on your project’s final budget.

What Do Outdoor Fireplaces and Firepits Cost?

This is how your dreams take shape. Your first connection with a Hursthouse landscape architect is critical – and it’s usually a lot of fun!

What Should I Bring to My First Landscape Design Meeting?

How do your landscaping ideas, needs and preferences turn into a construction-ready plan? You’ll get there by collaborating with your landscape architect on some conceptual designs. Here’s how it works.

Illustration of conceptual design

What’s a Conceptual Landscape Design?

Like each client, every one of our landscapes is distinctive—a “custom fit” for a specific lifestyle. Our approach is simple. Each outdoor space is a living and livable canvas. As landscape architects, we “paint” the setting based on our clients’ needs, desires and budget.

The Design Process: How great gardens go from the drawing board to the landscape

Is your landscape design environmentally friendly? That’s a complicated question, but there are a few choices you can make right now that will have a positive impact.

4 Eco-Friendly Additions to Make to Your Landscape Design

Who doesn’t love an outdoor party during summer? A well-designed garden can be the perfect space to host a celebration.

Designing a Garden for Entertaining

A big trend in outdoor furnishings is the emphasis on comfort. Oversized pillows and cushions and upholstered chairs and couches designed in soft, durable fabrics provide an inviting spot to relax.

Set the Stage for Outdoor Relaxation

The biggest movement in landscape design right now is sustainable design and it’s definitely not just a trend.

Growing a Sustainable Landscape

Our team constantly explores sources of design inspiration. Here are some of our favorites.

The Inspired Garden

Slopes present several challenges, such as drainage issues, changing light conditions, overly dry soil, soil erosion and potential flooding. But, they can also provide opportunities.

Designing a Sustainable Slope

Patios function like living rooms and kitchens. With that in mind, we design these outdoor spaces to accommodate small group conversation and interaction as well as relaxation.

Living Outside the Box

Your landscape needs to last. Which means, when you’re working with your landscape architect to plan your new yard, “trends” may or may not serve you well.

6 Landscaping Trends with Staying Power

When we’re starting a new landscape, there are three things we always look at first, in order of importance. Here’s our company design philosophy.

Great Landscape Design Comes Down to These 3 Words.

What’s landscape construction like? The process is often both more difficult and more rewarding than some homeowners imagine.

The Landscape Construction Process

When you’re choosing a partner for your new landscape, the biggest distinction will be in how your landscape is planned.

A Client-Based Solution

Clay or concrete? Molded or cobbled? You've got a lot of options.

Which Patio Paving is Best?

Before you purchase or design a fire pit, here are 3 questions you absolutely need to ask.

3 Questions to Ask Before Installing a Fire Pit at Home

At Hursthouse, a great design always starts with asking great questions. If you’re building a pergola here are 3 questions to ask yourself before you start.

3 Questions to Ask Before You Build a Pergola

We’d love to work with you on your dream landscape!

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