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Designing your own outdoor space or hiring professionals are both excellent options. You might want a perfectly crafted landscape design worthy of magazines and the professionals will help you achieve that. However, creating your own design can help you bring your ideas to life and save the cost of garden designers in your neighbourhood.
Today, we’re going to highlight the top landscaping trends in Edmonton, along with giving a general overview of how you can begin designing your own landscape
Planning your own landscape can be an extremely enjoyable activity for the right people. Landscape design for your Edmonton backyard space begins by understanding the hard numbers involved, then involving your creativity to design your dream backyard.
Before we dive into the specific landscaping design ideas in the next section, let’s go over a general overview of how you can plan your own landscape design. Keep in mind that we are discussing the planning and design phase, you will most likely still need professionals to properly execute your design.
Follow the below steps to begin designing your dream landscape:
You now have a solid understanding of how you’d like your backyard to look, along with knowledge of any applicable limitations, such as budget and regulations. From here, you can start adding and removing futures, along with pulling from any of the design trends that we’re about to discuss.
It’s important to note that you will likely still need to work with a professional to draft a complete backyard design that includes all of the relevant data and specific measurements. Landscapers will require this information to properly execute your plan, it’s just like having a blueprint for the contractor adding a new room. However, completing the steps above will help you give the professional designer specific ideas that may reduce the rate for the finished design.
You don’t need to follow popular landscape design trends in Edmonton to have an incredible backyard that you’ll love for years to come. However, learning about these landscape design trends makes you aware of new designs and possibilities that can be incorporated into your unique plans. Some common Edmonton landscape design trends are:
Each of these trends reflects a renewed focus on turning backyards into useful areas, rather than uniform green lawns. People now want to go outside and relax, enjoy the beauty of nature, and maybe even have some homegrown produce.
Landscape designers have received specialized training and real-world work experience that they bring to your yard renovation. Having their skills behind your project will undoubtedly help achieve your goals, but it will require an investment.
How much will it cost? Your specific fee will be based on who you hire, the quality of landscaping supplies you use, and the scope of your backyard project. Talented and reputable landscape designers will cost more than new designers, just like a more intricate project will require more of the designer’s time. On average, expect to pay between
$1,000 and $7,000 for a professional landscape designer.
Take a look at some of the landscape design projects we have completed in Edmonton and Sherwood Park, and start imagining how your backyard oasis will look in 2022.
We’d love to lend our knowledge and experience to your upcoming backyard renovation.
Contact us today to start working with an experienced landscape designer that can bring your ideas to life.
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