Modern Landscape Design in Canada — Full-Service Design-Build with 3D Renderings
Experience a seamless Canadian landscape transformation that blends design excellence, durable construction, and photoreal 3D renderings, helping you visualize materials, lighting, and seasonal performance before we build, then delivering a resilient, code-compliant outdoor space through a smooth, guided, free consultation process.
About Our Canadian Design-Build Studio
We are a modern, client-first landscape design-build team serving Canada with photoreal 3D visualization, meticulous documentation, and durable construction, uniting design excellence and craftsman reliability to deliver outdoor spaces that thrive through Canadian seasons, satisfy municipal requirements, and elevate everyday life without stress.
Our Design-Build Process
From first conversation to final walkthrough, our integrated process clarifies goals, eliminates guesswork, and maintains accountability, so design decisions translate into durable construction details, clear budgets, and confident scheduling across Canadian climates without handing you off to disconnected teams or unreliable timelines.
Discovery and Vision Workshop
We begin with a collaborative session to understand your lifestyle, architectural context, municipal constraints, and investment priorities, then translate insights into a concise brief defining must-haves, nice-to-haves, and phasing options, ensuring the project remains aligned with your goals through every design, pricing, and build milestone.
Measured Survey and Feasibility
Our team completes a detailed site measure and photo documentation, evaluating grading, drainage, access, sun patterns, and utilities, then produces a feasibility summary identifying opportunities, risks, and cost implications, enabling smarter decisions before design hours are spent and preventing surprises during permitting, procurement, or construction staging.
Integrated Build Planning
We develop a coordinated roadmap linking drawings, specifications, permit requirements, and trade schedules, then validate logistics such as machinery access, material lead times, and seasonal constraints, enabling precise execution that protects plants, subgrade preparation, and finishes while maintaining momentum and transparent communication with you and inspectors.
Services and Packages
Choose a focused design package, a turnkey design-build pathway, or ongoing care, each backed by clear deliverables, photoreal 3D visuals, and dependable schedules, ensuring you receive exactly the level of support needed to plan, approve, construct, and maintain a resilient, modern Canadian landscape.
3D Design Masterplan Package
Includes discovery workshop, measured site survey, two concept options, photoreal 3D renderings with day and night views, one coordinated revision cycle, planting palette, and preliminary material specifications, giving you clear direction, municipal-ready clarity, and confident budget alignment before committing to construction timelines and trades mobilization.
C,450
Complete Design-Build Construction
A turnkey pathway covering final drawings, permits, procurement, project management, certified installation, inspections, and quality control, integrating decks, patios, lighting, planting, and irrigation as needed, providing single-source accountability and a refined finish that matches your approved 3D renderings and agreed budget milestones.
C,450
Seasonal Maintenance & Warranty Care
A comprehensive care plan including spring inspections, bed grooming, selective pruning, seasonal fertilization, irrigation startup and winterization, lighting checks, and priority service, preserving performance and beauty while protecting warranties and making ownership easy, predictable, and enjoyable through changing Canadian weather and busy schedules.
C,450
Immersive 3D Renderings
Our photoreal 3D renderings simulate textures, lighting, and seasonal conditions specific to Canadian environments, helping you confidently compare materials, layouts, and elevations, then finalize choices with clarity, minimizing change orders, accelerating approvals, and ensuring the built result matches your expectations from every essential viewing angle.
Site Analysis, Codes, and Permits
We navigate zoning bylaws, setbacks, tree protections, grading bylaws, and utility clearances, coordinating engineers when required, then assemble permit-ready drawings that anticipate reviewer questions, reduce resubmissions, and accelerate approvals, allowing construction to commence with confidence and compliance across Canadian municipalities and conservation authorities.
Zoning and Setback Compliance
Our team interprets local bylaws for structures, decks, pools, accessory buildings, and lot coverage, then verifies setbacks, height limits, and sightlines, ensuring the design balances ambition with compliance while documenting variances or heritage considerations early, minimizing delays and protecting the viability of your preferred layout or features.
Drainage and Frost Considerations
We analyze soil conditions, slope patterns, and freeze-thaw impacts to engineer appropriate bases, underdrains, and outfalls, thereby preventing heave, pooling, and erosion; this proactive approach preserves long-term stability, safeguards structures, and maintains warranties while respecting neighbor grading, property lines, and municipal stormwater management expectations.
Permit-Ready Documentation
Our drawings combine plans, sections, and details with specifications for materials, edge restraints, railings, lighting, and planting, clearly labeling elevations and notes for reviewers and trades, which streamlines approvals, supports accurate pricing, and ensures field crews deliver exactly what was approved without ambiguity or costly rework.
Materials Built for Canadian Seasons
We specify materials proven to withstand freeze-thaw cycles, de-icing salts, heavy snow loads, and UV exposure, balancing beauty and longevity, then detail proper subgrades, drainage, and anchoring to ensure your patio, deck, and structures remain safe, stable, and elegant through harsh winters and hot summer extremes.
Permeable Pavers and Base Systems
We design permeable assemblies where appropriate, combining graded aggregates, geotextiles, and edge restraints to manage stormwater and snowmelt, reduce icing, and lower runoff, while maintaining smooth, stable surfaces that look refined, remain plow-friendly, and meet manufacturer warranties when installed to stringent Canadian best practices.
Woods, Composites, and Finishes
We evaluate cedar, pressure-treated, hardwoods, and composites for slip resistance, thermal comfort, color fastness, and maintenance requirements, then specify fastening systems, ventilation gaps, and protective finishes, ensuring decks, screens, and benches age gracefully and perform reliably despite extreme temperature swings and repeated freeze-thaw stress.
Stone, Concrete, and Detailing
We select natural stone or architectural concrete based on load, texture, and salt exposure, detailing expansion joints, drainage slopes, and edge profiles that control cracking and chipping, maintain accessibility, and complement modern architecture while delivering the crisp lines and tactile quality your space deserves for decades.
Outdoor Living Features
From kitchens to fire features and shade solutions, we orchestrate functional zones that flow naturally, combining storage, privacy, and circulation with resilient materials and integrated utilities, delivering inviting, code-compliant spaces tuned for Canadian seasons, entertaining, and everyday comfort without compromising design clarity or maintenance ease.
Planting Design for Canadian Climates
We craft planting palettes tailored to Canadian hardiness zones, focusing on resilience, biodiversity, and layered four-season interest, then match soil conditions and maintenance aspirations, ensuring your garden thrives, supports pollinators, and remains beautiful with realistic upkeep across spring bursts, summer color, fall texture, and winter structure.
Smart Irrigation Controls
We deploy weather-based controllers, flow sensors, and zoning tailored to plant needs and microclimates, enabling efficient watering that adapts to rainfall and temperature changes, reduces waste, and protects new installations, while remote monitoring supports quick adjustments and consistent performance across busy schedules and travel periods.
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Rain Gardens and Permeability
We integrate catchment strategies, swales, and rain gardens that slow, filter, and infiltrate runoff, then coordinate permeable surfaces and underdrains where appropriate, protecting structures and reducing erosion while adding ecological value, seasonal beauty, and municipal compliance in sensitive or high-runoff urban and suburban sites.
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Soils and Root Health
We test and amend soils for structure, fertility, and drainage, then design rooting volumes, aeration, and mulch systems that promote vigorous establishment, reduce transplant shock, and sustain long-term plant vitality, ensuring landscapes mature gracefully with fewer inputs and better resilience to weather extremes and seasonal transitions.
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Lighting and Night Experience
We design low-voltage lighting that enhances architecture, improves safety, and extends evening use, balancing focal accents with glare control and dark-sky practices, then detail wiring, transformers, and controls for efficient, reliable operation that feels welcoming through long Canadian nights and changing seasonal routines.
Architectural Accents
We highlight façades, feature trees, and textured surfaces with carefully aimed beams and color temperatures that enhance material richness, then hide fixtures and wiring for a clean look, ensuring drama without glare, safety without clutter, and excellent nighttime legibility for social spaces, entryways, and pathways.
Path and Step Safety
We place low-glare path lights, recessed step fixtures, and handrail lighting to ensure safe movement, appropriate contrasts, and comfortable brightness, then validate snow-clearing paths and maintainability, ensuring fixtures remain protected, accessible, and effective under winter conditions and routine property maintenance activities.
Smart Controls and Efficiency
We specify dimmable transformers, timers, and app-based controls with astronomical scheduling, enabling energy savings, flexible scenes, and quick adjustments for events or seasons, while low-maintenance LEDs deliver longevity, consistent color, and reliable performance in variable temperatures and challenging outdoor environments across Canada.
Budgeting and Transparency
We provide itemized estimates, clear allowances, and milestone-based payments, then align decisions with budget targets through value engineering and 3D visuals, minimizing surprises and change orders while preserving design intent and performance, so you understand exactly where every dollar goes from concept to completion.
Itemized Scopes and Allowances
Our proposals separate design, excavation, base preparation, materials, planting, lighting, and utilities, with allowances for appliances or fixtures where needed, ensuring transparent comparisons, informed upgrades, and responsible savings that do not compromise safety, code compliance, or durability in our demanding climate.
Value Engineering with Integrity
We present strategic substitutions that maintain aesthetics and performance, such as alternative paver series, modular dimensions, or simplified detailing, then show the impact in 3D, preserving your vision while controlling costs and lead times without introducing maintenance burdens or undermining long-term structural reliability.
Phased Construction Options
When needed, we phase projects by prioritizing subgrade, utilities, and primary hardscapes first, then layering features and planting later, enabling budget flexibility while protecting future work, preserving warranties, and ensuring each phase functions beautifully and safely as a standalone, fully usable outdoor environment.
Maintenance and Warranty
We protect your investment with seasonal services, inspections, and clear warranties tailored to materials and installation standards, then coach owners on care routines, ensuring plants establish, hardscapes remain level and safe, and lighting performs predictably through seasonal transitions, freeze-thaw cycles, and everyday use.
Seasonal Care and Winterization
We winterize irrigation, secure vulnerable features, and advise on snow management to protect edges, plants, and finishes, then schedule spring reopenings that include inspections and adjustments, ensuring the landscape rebounds quickly and continues to perform exactly as designed through changing temperatures and precipitation patterns.
Spring Tune-Ups and Inspections
Each spring, we assess settlement, joint sand, plant vigor, and lighting fixtures, performing targeted corrections and replacements as needed, then update maintenance guidance so you or your caretaker team can sustain health, cleanliness, and safety while preserving the refined, modern aesthetic established during construction.
Clear, Practical Warranties
We outline straightforward coverage for workmanship, hardscape stability, and plant establishment, specifying conditions and durations transparently, then back claims with timely service and documentation, ensuring peace of mind and a responsive partnership that stands behind the quality of our design-build execution.
Portfolio Across Canada
Explore modern landscapes from compact urban courtyards to expansive suburban retreats and cottage properties, each tailored to climate, codes, and client lifestyles, demonstrating how our 3D-led process translates design intent into built environments that photograph beautifully and live even better year after year.
Learn MoreSustainability and Stewardship
We embed sustainability in every decision, from selecting low-impact materials and native plants to optimizing water use and long-term maintenance, delivering landscapes that feel luxurious while responsibly supporting biodiversity, resource efficiency, and resilience in Canada’s varied and changing environmental conditions.
Low-Impact Material Choices
We prioritize regionally sourced materials, recycled content, and durable finishes that reduce replacements, then detail efficient cuts and standardized modules to minimize waste, lowering embodied carbon while preserving the crisp modern aesthetic that defines your space and withstands the tests of weather and time.
Biodiversity and Habitat Support
We integrate layered planting, pollinator-friendly species, and microhabitats such as logs, rocks, and shallow water features where appropriate, enhancing ecological function without cluttering the modern look, and ensuring the garden remains healthy, dynamic, and educational for families and guests throughout the seasons.
Book Your Free Consultation
Schedule a friendly, obligation-free consultation where we discuss goals, budgets, timelines, and feasibility, then outline next steps for 3D design and construction, giving you clarity, confidence, and a realistic path toward a modern, durable Canadian landscape perfectly matched to your home and lifestyle.
- What We Cover We review your wish list, site photos, survey availability, municipal considerations, and ballpark investment targets, then explain our 3D process, permitting pathway, and construction logistics, so you leave the consultation with an informed, achievable plan that respects both aspirations and practical realities.
- How to Prepare Gather inspiration images, property surveys if available, and notes on sun, drainage, or privacy challenges, then consider your desired completion timeline and seasonal priorities, helping us tailor recommendations and an initial roadmap that reduces risk and accelerates decision-making after our meeting.
- After the Call We summarize key points, share an appropriate design proposal, and outline anticipated permits and milestones, then schedule a measured site visit to kick off 3D modeling, ensuring momentum remains strong and your project advances smoothly from conversation to detailed, build-ready documentation.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens during the free consultation?
We discuss your goals, lifestyle, site conditions, and timing, review any surveys or photos you can share, and outline suitable next steps, including our 3D design package, permitting considerations, and realistic budgets, so you leave with clarity, options, and a confident path forward without obligation.
How accurate are your 3D renderings compared to the final build?
Our renderings model grades, materials, lighting, and proportions to manufacturer and code-informed standards, then evolve with your feedback, ensuring alignment with construction details and budgets; the result is a highly accurate visual that closely matches the built space, minimizing surprises and costly mid-project changes.
What timeline should I expect from design to construction?
Timelines depend on scope, municipal reviews, and seasonal conditions, but most projects move from consultation to approved design within several weeks, with permitting, procurement, and construction scheduled strategically around weather and lead times, ensuring momentum while protecting quality, durability, and your preferred completion windows.
How do you handle budgets, changes, and payments?
We provide itemized estimates and allowances, then issue milestone-based invoices aligned with deliverables and site progress; any changes are documented with pricing and schedule impacts before approval, ensuring transparency, cost control, and a predictable experience that respects your investment without compromising safety or quality.
Do you manage permits and inspections for me?
Yes, we prepare permit-ready drawings, coordinate engineering if required, submit applications, and liaise with reviewers, then schedule inspections and address comments promptly, ensuring compliance while keeping the project moving, reducing administrative burden, and safeguarding the design intent through official approvals and field execution.
Which areas in Canada do you serve?
We primarily serve major metropolitan regions and surrounding communities, coordinating remote design where practical and traveling for build projects that fit our process; during consultation, we confirm service availability, local code nuances, and logistics to ensure a well-supported, efficient, and compliant delivery in your area.