Landscape design & buildTerraces, walls, plantings and lighting — metro area.

We draw it before we build it.

Every Slatewren project starts as a scaled plan you can hold, mark up and argue with — then the same crew that drew it builds it, start to finish.

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Design–buildOne team, plan to planting

ResidentialWhole properties and single rooms outdoors

In-house crewsNo sub-contracted stonework

Sheet L-1 — planting & hardscape plan, drawn in-house Scale 1” = 8′

01 — 04Four trades, one crew, one drawing they all work from.

Everything outside the back door.

Most properties need more than one trade. Running them off a single plan is what keeps the stone, the soil and the wiring from fighting each other.

Landscape design

A measured survey, a scaled plan and a plant schedule you keep — with the layout settled on paper before anyone breaks ground.

Hardscape & masonry

Terraces, walkways, steps, seat walls and retaining walls. Cut on site, set on a proper base, and built to drain.

Planting & soil

Beds amended before anything goes in, plants sized for the space they will fill, and a first season of establishment care.

Lighting & irrigation

Low-voltage path and feature lighting and zoned irrigation, sleeved under the hardscape while it is still open.

The plan, then the build.

Drag the line to move between the drawing and the finished property. Everything on the left is settled before anything on the right gets built.

The finished garden from above: a stone terrace and steps down to an open lawn, a round fire pit, a curved seat wall around a planted bed, and beds along both boundaries — **Hillcrest Terrace** — sample scope, drawn and built as one job Drag or use the arrow keys

A flagstone terrace shaded by multi-stem trees, stone benches at its edges and a planted urn at its center, opening onto a mown lawn

Corner lot, full rebuild

Regraded for drainage, a bluestone terrace off the kitchen, a seat wall along the property line and beds carried around three sides.

Scope Design, grading, masonry, planting, lighting Sheets L-1 layout, L-2 planting, L-3 lighting Season Spring build, autumn establishment visit

A walled courtyard paved wall to wall in stone: an iron gate between brick piers, potted trees and timber planters, lanterns in warm evening light

Small city courtyard

Forty feet by twenty. Levelled, paved wall to wall, planted in raised troughs, and lit so it reads as a room after dark.

Scope Design, paving, troughs, lighting Sheets L-1 layout, L-2 planting Season Built off-season, no crane access

A sloping garden terraced with stone-faced retaining walls, banks planted with layered junipers and evergreens, and stone steps climbing beside the house

Sloped rear garden

A hillside cut into usable terraces with stone retaining walls, stone steps beside the house and planted banks above.

Scope Design, excavation, stone walls, planting Sheets L-1 layout, L-2 grading, L-3 planting Season Two-phase build across one season

Scopes and drawings on this page were made for this concept, and the photographs are licensed stock photography (the plan-to-built wipe uses an AI-generated concept image) — not properties Slatewren built. A real build publishes its own project photography here as each client signs it off.

How a job runsFour stages, and you approve the drawing before anyone digs.

Walk the property, draw it, build it.

No surprise change orders halfway through, because the decisions all happen on paper first — where changing your mind is free.

Walk & measure

We walk the property, take levels and measurements, and talk through how you actually want to use it.

Draw the plan

A scaled layout, a planting plan and a line-by-line price. Mark it up — one round of revisions is part of it.

Build it

Our own crews, a dated schedule, and the site left tidy each evening. You get progress photos every week.

Establish & hand off

A walkthrough, the plant schedule and care notes in writing, and a return visit once the first season is through.

AccountabilityWhat leaves with you when the trucks do.

The drawings are yours to keep.

The scaled plan set, as built, on paper and as a file
A plant schedule naming every species and size we put in
Written care notes for the first two seasons
A line-by-line record of the scope you approved

Company license and insurance numbers publish here only with a verifiable document behind each one.

Client reviews

Verified reviews from finished properties land here at launch — real ones only, with names the client agreed to publish.

Before you callThe four questions that come up on nearly every consultation.

Questions we get asked first.

What does the design itself cost?

Design is quoted separately from the build and credited back against the build if you go ahead with us. You own the drawings either way — there is no clause holding them hostage.

Can we build it in phases?

Often the smartest way to do it. The plan is drawn whole so the phases fit together, then priced in stages — sleeves and drainage go in during phase one so nothing gets torn up later.

Do you use sub-contractors?

The stonework, planting and grading are our own crews. Licensed electrical and plumbing tie-ins go to trades we work with regularly, scheduled by us and coordinated off the same drawing.

How long does a project take?

The design stage usually runs a few weeks from the site walk. Build time depends on the scope and the season, and you get a dated schedule with the plan — before you commit to anything.

Next stepA walk of the property, then a drawing you can hold.

Book a design consultation.

We walk the property with you, take the measurements we need, and come back with a scaled plan and a line-by-line price. No obligation to build it with us.

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Mon–Fri 7 AM–5 PM
Saturday site walks by appointment
Serving the metro area