Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: How much did you budget for for landscape & garden... 8Apr 20, 2010 9:44 pm Blog: http://bluemistkids.blogspot.com "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, and professionals built the Titanic." Re: How much did you budget for for landscape & garden... 9Apr 20, 2010 9:47 pm Our house thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=18335 Re: How much did you budget for for landscape & garden... 11Apr 21, 2010 10:08 pm Lunchtime mine will be diy - over a very long time. Already spent the landscaping budget on house upgrades. Mine too. We have allowed for fencing & a retaining wall, builder is doing driveway & alfresco & we will do the rest over time. We have a fair number of different bromeliads & a few other lillies & other plants I took from my last garden so we will save a bit there but otherwise it will unfortunately have to be bit by bit for us. I have started picking up plants now when I can so the expense is spread but we are going to need to spend big $ on some tall bamboo as we just found out behind us is going to be 2 storey & we want privacy asap. Cheers Kim Re: How much did you budget for for landscape & garden... 12Apr 22, 2010 12:10 am LIAV website lists generally $150-$300/m² based on a design being 60% hard landscaping and 40% soft. It should only be taken generally though, landscaping has that many variables, materials and labour content, that some jobs are impossible to give a figure before quoting. $300/m would be generally for jobs with high end pavers and detailed work. Planned Landscape Constructions http://www.plannedlandscape.com.au Find us on facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... 9907611509 Re: How much did you budget for for landscape & garden... 13Apr 22, 2010 12:49 am The following will give some an idea, or I should say a "guide", of what you can possibly get for various monies. http://www.landscapewa.com.au/awards/2008/ http://www.landscapewa.com.au/awards/2006/ http://www.liav.com.au/awards-2009/plan ... scape.html http://www.lasa.org.au/2006awards.php http://lcansw.com.au/cgi-bin/lcansw/awa ... dyear=2008 http://lcansw.com.au/cgi-bin/lcansw/awa ... dyear=2009 Re: How much did you budget for for landscape & garden... 14Apr 22, 2010 1:21 pm Mine will be about 20k or so but I have two retaining walls made from Austral Linkwall & Boral Heathstone as well as a large garden bed made from Austral Linkwall. One retaining wall will be two steps of 800mm each. Add pavers, plants, soil, gravel and another sleeper retaining wall on the fenceline and it adds up. This is all DIY over a long period of weekends spent moving dirt and gravel etc. Just picture digging out 10 cubic metres of fill and then halling it up a hill one wheel barrow at a time. There is no rear access. Its a massive job and I hate every minute of it but I refused to pay to have it done professionally. I think if you can budget for it and have it done as soon as you move in then your long term sanity will be better, however most things can be done yourself - its just a matter of alot of will power and effort. I think most people choose to ignore it because its easier to pretend it wont cost much and will be easy rather than thinking about it when you are pricing your house and land. Re: How much did you budget for for landscape & garden... 15Apr 23, 2010 10:59 pm Landscaping (especially softscaping) is a labour of love for us... We have been going for 3-4 years now... Nowhere near finished and loving every minute of it... Hardscaping can wait!! Plants take longer to grow.... Once they are in, then we can worry about hardscaping... . Well, that is what we think anyway.... Ari & Scott Darwin, NT Re: How much did you budget for for landscape & garden... 16Apr 23, 2010 11:23 pm budget. hmm forgot to include patience ... waiting for return quotes. has to be priceless.. surely? Coming back to your old stomping grounds, huh? Renovations on a budget can be quite the journey. It's like giving your house a new lease on life. The twist of not knowing… 1 3505 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 24937 |