Landscape Design + Build · Portland, Oregon
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Spring 2027
We design and build outdoor space for Portland homes — terraces, stonework, plantings, and the grading nobody notices until it rains. One crew, start to finish, at a price we fix before we dig.
Before / after
Every one of these started as a photo the homeowner was a little embarrassed to send us.
Cedar Hills · 9 weeks
Two feet of fall across thirty feet of yard, so every barbecue happened in the driveway. We cut the grade into one level terrace, held it with a dry-stacked basalt wall, and planted the shade side with things that like a wet February.
Laurelhurst · 11 weeks
The house had a beautiful back door and absolutely no reason to open it. We built the room that was missing — covered, warm, and usable in the eight months a year Portland is damp.
Sellwood · 4 weeks
Roof water was landing four feet from the foundation and staying there until April. The pretty part took a week. The part that keeps the crawlspace dry took the other three.
What we do
We don't sub out the parts that matter. If it's on this list, the people who designed it are the people who build it.
Bluestone, basalt, dry-stack walls, and steps that meet code and still look hand-set. If it holds soil back or holds a chair up, we build it ourselves — no subcontracted masonry.
Plans drawn for the Willamette Valley specifically — natives, shade tolerance, and the short list of things that survive a wet February and then a dry August without a sprinkler on a timer.
Pergolas, fireplaces, built-in seating, and low-voltage lighting. These are the parts that decide whether you use the yard in October or just look at it through the window.
The unglamorous half, and the reason we get called after somebody else's patio. Water goes where we send it, or it goes into your basement. We solve that first, then build on top of it.
How it goes
The estimate is free and the number is real. Most of what goes wrong in this trade goes wrong because somebody skipped step one.
About ninety minutes on site. We measure, dig a test hole to see what your soil and drainage are actually doing, and talk budget out loud. No charge and no pitch — you get our read either way.
Plan drawings, a full plant list, and one number. That number doesn't move unless you change your mind, and change orders get priced before anyone picks up a shovel.
One crew from demo to final sweep — the same faces every morning. Dumpster and portable toilet are on us, and you get photos at the end of each week if you're at work.
You get a watering schedule and a labelled plant map. We come back at six and twelve months to check establishment and replace anything that didn't take.
Project in depth · Council Crest
The lot dropped nearly nine feet from the back door to the fence line, and the previous owners had answered it with a railroad-tie wall that was giving up. We took the hill in three moves instead of one: a seat-height basalt wall at the top for the dining terrace, a planted middle step to break the fall, and a wide bluestone stair down to a level lawn the kids could actually use.
What clients say
“They found the drainage problem two other bids missed. The terrace is beautiful, but the thing I tell people about is that my crawlspace is finally dry.”
“Fixed price meant fixed price. I have remodeled a kitchen before, so I came in braced for the phone call. It never came.”
“Three winters in and everything they planted is still alive and roughly twice the size. That is the entire review.”
Free estimate
Send the photo you’re embarrassed by. We’ll come look, measure, dig a test hole, and give you a real number.
Prefer to talk? (503) 555-0148
We serve Portland, Beaverton, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie, and the close-in west side.
