Landscape Design In A Day
About us
Portland residential landscape designer, Carol Lindsay enjoys combining your lifestyle and interests with her exceptional awareness for the design potential of your home. You choose how you want to install your design; DIY on your own or she can often refer trusted preferred contractors for the installation process. With your objectives in mind Carol will create a design that makes use of every inch of your landscape. Carol understands how to utilize space. You will enjoy seeing how she can simplify the layout and make the property flow........good flow creates opportunity for beauty. Carol uses a wide range of plants, to include native plants, pollinators and drought-tolerant landscaping. Modern, NW Natural, Minimalist, Colorful Cottage Garden and more. The placement of garages, accessory buildings, and sheds to rain gardens hot tubs, and raised beds for edibles are typical requests. Carol loves to create comfortable outdoor living patios, decks and more to have the perfect outdoor heaven for summer living.
Business highlights
Services we offer
Smaller properties - professional landscape designs. Garden coaching for existing clients only. We prefer a collaborative approach and are not interested in designing for builders or for house flipping. We want to design with our clients preferences in mind and typically create most of the design on site.
Accepted Payment Methods
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"Thank you so much for your review. Angie'[Member Information Removed] list new format is very attractive but they don't notify a business when a new review is posted. I happened to be checking a detail and saw your review. Thank you. I loved creating the Landscape Design in A day with you both. You gave me a great base map, photos and a solid wish list. People don't have to be so clear about what they want for a successful design but you were. I feel that helped me to be even more creative. I loved visitng you this summer. The back yard and new covered out door living room looks wonderful and it looks loved. Warm regards, Carol"
"Thank you for the review. Sloped properties are a challenge. Working together we created a great design. I certainly don't expect my clients to be good designers, but these clients were perfect co-designers, they had really thought about what they wanted for their family. While the lower portion of the property was extremely challenging, the design for the upper property gave these clients everything they needed. A patio, kids play area and we created beautiful views from inside the house. It is also lovely to hear 6 months after our design day that they are happy with my services."
"I’m saddened to read this review for many reasons. The biggest reason is that this client wanted the garden of her dreams, a full exuberant cottage garden for a person who loves to garden. We created the design together as a landscape design in a day. I thought we had a wonderful day designing the garden together. She told me she was deeply touched at how I had understood what she wanted and she loved the design. I parted with a hug from her and a plan for a 2nd on site appointment. She cancelled that appointment. I’m not sure why her experience of our work together changed."
It was great. I'm just sorry it took me a year to write a review! I sent Carol pictures and a few videos of the house and the yard, and we talked on the phone and met for a day-long consultation. I was looking for someone that was interested in thinking outside the box and was excited about it, considering that my property is fairly odd in terms of shape and location. I was also looking for someone that would give me more ideas for the future rather than a detailed plant layout.
Before we met in person, I provided her with a sketch and measurements for the yard and during our session we came up with a plan that included not only modifications to the yard, but to the house itself (e.g. adding a patio, changing the front door layout, adding a garage and an ADU). Carol was great to work with from the beginning and a pleasure to share ideas with. She also gave me more suggestions on the phone after a few months when I was looking at ideas for a sloped side ditch in front of the house. I am actually now starting to plan the addition of a garage and ADU, and I will definitely call Carol back to refine our original idea and come up with detail plant layout (and maybe some more ideas on where to locate the garage and ADU and frame them with plants!). She is not only very knowledgeable, but also a delight to have around!
"Thanks so much for the review. The best ideas for a property come from the clients' mind even if they don't know the idea is in there. Collaboration always creates the best designs. This client is interested in a long term approach to her unique property and is willing to roll up her sleeves and go after it. I'm looking forward to coming back and creating a more refined landscape plan for her. Thanks again for the review!"
"Thank you so much for your review! We evaluated your existing plantings and you enthusiastically endorsed removing over half of the front yard shrubs and trees. There were a lot of “the pink ribbon of death” ribbons when we were done with our plant edit. Other plants were jewels and we designed companion plantings for them that looked good and also matched the watering needs. Your design had an edible focus. The backyard wasn’t suitable . In the front yard we added 2 dwarf apple trees and a beautiful ornamental crab apple for the pollinator. You also loved my favorite pie cherry tree and we placed it in the side yard where your existing blueberries were thriving. We completed our Landscape Design in a Day process and in 2013 was $750 (it is $895 to $995 now). Again, thanks for your review."
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