Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Landscape designer vs DIY 12Jun 13, 2007 5:31 pm Just another thought....
I don't want a full on landscape design (and even if I did I wouldn't pay $5K) but I'm pretty hopeless with plants and knowing what goes best where so I'm going to get Waldecks (they are a big plant nursery not sure if they are in the Eastern States???) out to do a basic design for me...they charge around $200 and basically give you a drawing of where to plant what! And of course if you decide to buy the plants through them they offer you a discount! Re: Landscape designer vs DIY 13Jun 13, 2007 5:37 pm perthgirl - I think most nurseries in NSW do this too - quite often a basic plan is free as long as you buy your plants from them. Re: Landscape designer vs DIY 14Jul 01, 2007 11:40 pm After witnessing an AllCastle built house auctioned for $1.4M the other day (< a href="http://building-our-first-house.blogspot.com/2007/06/others003-property-sales-update-epping.html" target="_">See this link from my blog</a>), we completely changed our mind regarding landscaping. Well, at least "if" we are going to sell our house in the future. We will definitely spend a few thousand dollars in landscaping (not all on the designing of course). A well presented landscape will definitely increase your house value a lot.
Cheers Allan http://building-our-first-house.blogspot.com/ Current stage: old house demolished, contract signed, waiting for excavation to start... Re: Landscape designer vs DIY 15Jul 02, 2007 10:02 am We had a landscaper do our new garden, as we are NOT gardeners!! Couldn't recommend it more. It was fantastic. We stipulated a broad outline of what we wanted, eg. natives, waterwise and low maintenance, but a bit of lawn for the kids to play on. Well, after 4 weeks while the plan was drawn up and 3 weeks of soil excavation and conditioning, retic laying, planting and mulching, we have a gorgeous, planned, reticulated garden. It was well worth the effort to get professionals in. It looks terrific and things like having the same sort of plants on the same watering stations, choosing plants for the right areas are things we wouldn't have known. Re: Landscape designer vs DIY 16Jul 02, 2007 1:22 pm ahuang We will definitely spend a few thousand dollars in landscaping (not all on the designing of course). A well presented landscape will definitely increase your house value a lot. A few thousand or tens of thousands? We've been told that even a basic DIY landscaping job will be $6-10k for plants and turf. Re: Landscape designer vs DIY 17Jul 02, 2007 1:29 pm stonecutter1309 ahuang We will definitely spend a few thousand dollars in landscaping (not all on the designing of course). A well presented landscape will definitely increase your house value a lot. A few thousand or tens of thousands? We've been told that even a basic DIY landscaping job will be $6-10k for plants and turf. That's possible... When the house was first built. Always not much $ left and landscape can wait. So we plan to put in min plants with min $. Will add others later as required. But if it's time to sell the house that would be a completely different story. I don't mind putting in extra $10K if that can get me extra $50K during auction! Cheers Allan http://building-our-first-house.blogspot.com/ Current stage: old house demolished, contract signed, waiting for excavation to start... Re: Landscape designer vs DIY 18Jul 02, 2007 6:03 pm Our landscaping for a 770 sqm block was approx $19000. This included a lot of soil removal and adding soil conditioner (4 days of bobcats moving earth), full garden reticulation, Sir Walter soft buffalo (expensive grass!) for the front and back yards, as well as all plants along 3 boundary lines, garden beds with a few trees and grasses and native grass trees (not cheap), some hedging plants for a retaining wall and mulching of all garden beds. Add on $4000 for extensive paving and our yard is finished. We possibly could have done it cheaper ourselves, but I am not a gardener and this way we have got a well-designed, cohesive looking garden with very usable spaces. Also we landscaped for our enjoyment as we are planning to live here forever!! You could do it cheaper for resale I'm sure. Re: Landscape designer vs DIY 19Jul 03, 2007 9:56 am kezza Also we landscaped for our enjoyment as we are planning to live here forever!! Sworn the exact same thing twice so far. Really, this time it really is forever. Re: Landscape designer vs DIY 20Jul 08, 2007 11:54 pm Can someone explain why one has to spend thousands on lanscaping if one is in a million dollar estate? I am of the same opinion as3xb- all those pathways and pebbles and bushes with trimmed shapes are useless and i certainly dont like them. I would like to have my backyard full of fruit trees, herb and vegie patches which will my family can enjoy.Frontyard with large canopy decidious trees for shade, flowering shrubs like rhododendrons, hardy turf and decent driveway. I am building to live forever so it has to be practical. i dont feel comfortable to start considering 'resale' from day 1 ... fortunately (or unfortunately?) i happen to be in one of those estates here new homes are being sold for over a million dollars but it doesnt make sense to me why I should stretch my loan when I do not have the intention to sell for a long long time. Your build is relatively simple, I believe your job can be easily done by a good building designer, you really do not need to pay for the architect. Remember, architect's… 3 8363 Landscape Design Parramatta We have been doing a large amount of landscape design work in Sydney… 0 3 Need advice on the backyard plan above. Should I excavate and cut all of the dirt to level with the house slab or semi-excavate as per photo above? Both left and right… 0 18968 |