Design Consulting
Design is both an art and a science. Both are needed to fully realize your grandest vision and to carefully see to the smallest detail. As your design consultant, we promise to bring both perspectives to every aspect of your project. We’ll also work with you to discover your style and sensibilities and how you want to express these. Our designers will draw upon the latest in horticultural advancements as well as their knowledge of land forms and human structures. Your finished project will be visually striking and foundationally solid.
Our Process
The design process consists of a number of steps and action items to insure thoroughness and accuracy in form, function and aesthetics. Some major categories include the following:
Meeting with you—open communication with our clients is one of the keys to a successful project.We’ll work with you to discover your goals, your intended uses for the property, and also get a feel for your personality and style and how best to express these in the project.
Planning—we’ll discuss with you the site characteristics, such as topography and natural history, and identify its possible uses. From here we will produce a dynamic drawing that begins to ground our ideas. Your property’s functional elements will align with the designer’s ability to bring forth beauty, balance and proportion to its fullest measure.
Analyzing your property—we will analyze the soil, look at terrain, erosion patterns, roof run-off and other relevant factors. We’ll help you revise, consider new possibilities, and when you’re ready, select your plan. Then we will finalize preparations to begin construction.
Estimate—once your plan has been submitted and approved, the process quickens. Your dream of a new outdoor living space is about to get underway!
Breaking ground—our site crew will begin marking out the land with stakes or other devices in order to create a visual reference for you. After this phase is completed and approved by the client and designer, construction will start.
Follow through—LandCare Innovation’s designers take ownership of each project, coordinating installation crews to ensure that each objective is met and every detail is carried out. This produces a construction process that is well-organized and smoothly coordinated. All of our designers & installation crews are fully committed to delivering a job that wows each client. In fact, we consider the project finished only when you are fully satisfied.
Irrigation
To maintain a lush and green lawn in the Carolinas, an irrigation system is a necessity. The irrigation professionals at LCI work with you to design a system that best fits your lawn and landscape. A well-designed irrigation system will help you to save money and reduce your environmental impact. How?
Fact: water usage is the largest ongoing cost of any irrigation system. In many communities the cost of water has increased sharply in recent years, and this trend is expected to accelerate. The objective is to use less water while maintaining healthy and verdant grass, flowers and shrubs.
New developments in irrigation technology make possible a degree of precision in watering techniques not previously available. The advantages of a new irrigation system include:
- Areas more evenly watered, preventing over or under watering
- Saves you hours of manual watering each week
- Reduces water loss from evaporation and run-off—much less water used while improving your lawn’s absorption and lowering your bill
By using less water you are substantially reducing your bill, freeing up some of your time, and helping to conserve a vital natural resource. And your lawn will be healthier and look even better!
We also offer all-point inspections and full service maintenance for existing irrigation systems. Call our irrigation experts today for more details.
Outdoor Living
The temperate climate of the Carolinas is ideal for spending time outdoors for most of the year. Your property’s outdoor areas hold the key to transforming your home into an appealing venue capable of hosting a wide range of family activities, social engagements, and more. Whether it’s for fireplaces or fire pits, kitchens, patios, walkways or retaining walls, our designs will be customized to naturally extend the living space of your home to the outdoor areas. You’ll be sure to increase your own enjoyment as well as that of friends and family—and your property’s value will increase too!
The amenities you select can be built in any shape or size, using any patterns of stone, brick, or tile. They will be designed and constructed to complement the architecture of your home. The outdoors area will become a place to relax and unwind, while you enjoy the sound of crackling fire or gently cascading water. You’ve found a respite from the noise and busyness of the day. Now isn’t this worth looking into? Call us today and we’ll show you how.
Patios are such a classic addition to your outdoor landscape. They’ve always served as an extension of your home, a place to relax on a cool autumn evening. And today there are more options than ever. In addition to brick and concrete, new materials such as landscape and masonry paving stones create a safe and functional surface as well as a look that says natural. Whatever your taste calls for, we work with your yard and nature’s indigenous materials and patterns. Our finished installation looks like it belongs there, blending right in with the natural surroundings and providing you with years of long-lasting enjoyment.
Fire pits can provide you with an opportunity to have some of the camping experience without leaving home. You can feel comfortable and relaxed sitting around a “campfire” in the evening, toasting marshmallows and S’mores. Fire pits are great for evoking humorous stories and adventures in a full circle of friends and family. They also extend your outdoor season by chasing away the chill on cool fall evenings. Options include the ability to fuel the “campfire” with propane, allowing easy starts and quick stops with little mess.
Outdoor fireplaces have a purpose as well: they can be an “anchor” for the outdoor living area. They provide warmth, light and a crackling sound that is simply mesmerizing. Your choice of which of two basic types will determine what follows: wood burning or gas-fired? This often comes down to whether you want the qualities only a wood fire can provide, and how much maintenance you are willing to do.
Either way, we’ll help you to choose a fireplace design that fits the scale of your yard and home. The ambiance that a fireplace can lend to an outdoor area is incomparable—you’ll be thinking of lots of reasons to stay outside long after dark. Watch the stars come out on a crisp fall evening, or the moon rise over a lovely springtime horizon. Call or email us and we’ll explain just how practical these great yard additions can be for your home.
A pergola is a wooden freestanding structure built as an outdoor sitting area that has open joists spanning the top. They are often built on decks or patios and sometimes folks grow vines on them to enhance the appearance. They are distinguished from arbors in that arbors are usually smaller and with a specific purpose: to highlight entranceways or gates. Whether for a cool place to sit outdoors or a shelter from a busy lifestyle, pergolas can be tailored to your taste and intended purpose. Contact us today and we’ll help you choose a design that will perfectly suit your style and plans.
Pools and Ponds
There are many features that could be added to enhance your home’s curb appeal, but perhaps none that ties together all the natural elements of your landscape like a pond. Finding the location on your property that will maximize a pond’s potential is key. A great rule of thumb is to put your pond where it will be seen from the main viewing points of your home and yard. Examples of where to locate a pond include:
- By an existing garden
- Right in the middle of the backyard (for a true focal point)
- In viewing distance of a large picture window or sliding glass door
Keep in mind that the elements you want to include within your pond will impact where it needs to be located. Plants and other aquatic life will need some natural light to grow. However, some of the pond should be shaded to keep the summer sun from overheating the water. We’ll cover all the details regarding planning, construction and maintenance so that your pond will emerge an aesthetic triumph, and bring your landscape fully to life.
Outdoor kitchens have grown very popular over the past decade. And it’s easy to understand why: they add a space to host friends and family, which extends your entertainment options. Outdoor kitchens can be small and simple or as elaborate as any indoor kitchen. Typically they include a grill, counter area for prepping and plating food, and a dining counter or table. If you choose to go all out, it’s possible to run gas, plumbing and electrical lines to the outdoor kitchen, which opens up all kinds of possibilities. You can have a sink, refrigerator or beverage center, additional cooking appliances, lighting, and even a TV or sound system. Now cooking and entertaining outdoors can offer as much variety and fun as cooking indoors!
Walls were once seen primarily as a way of marking boundaries or creating privacy. Today you can use walls to frame your space, provide enhancement for patios, walkways, gardens and more. Walls have other practical uses too—creating a special ambiance, a place where you can add décor, and a space where a vertical garden may grow!
We can work with you to create outdoor wall areas that serve your practical needs while magnifying the natural beauty of the landscape. They can be a great place to add color to your yard or they can blend seamlessly into the background. Either way, your space will shine for years to come and you’ll have a valuable addition to your home’s outdoor living area.
Water Features
Water features add a sparkling dimension to your outdoor living area. From simple to complex, from classically elegant to playfully whimsical, they include a range of fountains, pools, ponds, cascades and waterfalls. Besides their visual beauty, water features add the sound of gently cascading water that soothes your senses and carries your stress away.
Water features come in all shapes and sizes, and are made from materials such as stone, granite, stainless steel and glass. We’ll assist you in discovering the perfect expression for your commercial property or your residence, while staying within your budget.
Landscaping
Landscaping involves arranging or modifying features of the grounds around a home or other building to improve the property. Most us of consider improvement in two ways: from the standpoint of aesthetic ideas and/or practical usage.
It’s often easier to recognize needed practical improvements. For instance, homeowners usually know that a walkway is broken up and needs repair, that a retaining wall should be built or that a garden area is in need of improved drainage. On the other hand, many of us find it more challenging to make a plan that will improve the aesthetics of a property.
It’s a process that may find you sorting through your essential priorities. For example, “How long am I going to stay in this house?”, and “is a future sale of the property more important than landscaping for my own tastes?” It really can raise a lot of issues and can take a long while to move through. Without help, you can easily start to feel overwhelmed by the many considerations and possible scenarios. But when you hire a seasoned and knowledgeable landscaping company, you have a team to guide you through the maze so you don’t get stuck. And you’re much more likely to make wise choices that will benefit your property for years to come.
How? Reputable landscape designers will help you to ask the right questions and can provide you with the experience and knowledge of what works well and what tends not to. We’ll help you to see where the focal points of your property may be, how to make changes that will emphasize its strengths, and minimize its weaknesses. There’s room for your creative input and vision too. Yet by working with our team of professional landscape designers we’ll show you the potential of your land so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Call our experienced professionals today—you can relax knowing you’re in capable hands with one of the finest landscaping companies around.
Low Voltage Lighting
Get the full use out of your outdoor areas by adding decorative landscape lighting. With new technology, low voltage lighting has become the system of choice for many. It accomplishes everything a conventional system can and a lot more. By using a low voltage lighting system (LVL), you can improve your home’s energy efficiency, reduce its carbon footprint, and save yourself a bundle in the process.
Many LVL systems are increasingly using LED lighting. LED (light emitting diode) bulbs and LVL systems have major advantages over conventional ones, including:
- Longer life: 50,000 hour LED lamp life (12-15 years!)—this is 10-15 times longer than conventional bulbs
- Super efficient: 93% less energy consumed with LED lighting than conventional bulbs—puts a big dent in your power bill
- Improved aesthetics: Less wire required to install, can be easily hidden
- Safer: standard LVL 12 volt systems are shockless—compare with dangerous 120 volt conventional systems use
Lawn Care
LandCare Innovations offers a full array of services that will help your lawn to either attain or sustain its health and vitality. The value of residential and commercial properties increases when the lawn and open areas are attractively maintained. Additionally, your well maintained property contributes to the beauty and harmony of your neighborhood or office park.
We can customize any contract to fit your lawn’s specific requirements as well as your budget.
Design Consulting
Design is both an art and a science. Both are needed to fully realize your grandest vision and to carefully see to the smallest detail. As your design consultant, we promise to bring both perspectives to every aspect of your project. We’ll also work with you to discover your style and sensibilities and how you want to express these. Our designers will draw upon the latest in horticultural advancements as well as their knowledge of land forms and human structures. Your finished project will be visually striking and foundationally solid.
Our Process
The design process consists of a number of steps and action items to insure thoroughness and accuracy in form, function and aesthetics. Some major categories include the following:
Meeting with you—open communication with our clients is one of the keys to a successful project.We’ll work with you to discover your goals, your intended uses for the property, and also get a feel for your personality and style and how best to express these in the project.
Planning—we’ll discuss with you the site characteristics, such as topography and natural history, and identify its possible uses. From here we will produce a dynamic drawing that begins to ground our ideas. Your property’s functional elements will align with the designer’s ability to bring forth beauty, balance and proportion to its fullest measure.
Analyzing your property—we will analyze the soil, look at terrain, erosion patterns, roof run-off and other relevant factors. We’ll help you revise, consider new possibilities, and when you’re ready, select your plan. Then we will finalize preparations to begin construction.
Estimate—once your plan has been submitted and approved, the process quickens. Your dream of a new outdoor living space is about to get underway!
Breaking ground—our site crew will begin marking out the land with stakes or other devices in order to create a visual reference for you. After this phase is completed and approved by the client and designer, construction will start.
Follow through—LandCare Innovation’s designers take ownership of each project, coordinating installation crews to ensure that each objective is met and every detail is carried out. This produces a construction process that is well-organized and smoothly coordinated. All of our designers & installation crews are fully committed to delivering a job that wows each client. In fact, we consider the project finished only when you are fully satisfied.
To maintain a lush and green lawn in the Carolinas, an irrigation system is a necessity. The irrigation professionals at LCI work with you to design a system that best fits your lawn and landscape. A well-designed irrigation system will help you to save money and reduce your environmental impact. How?
Fact: water usage is the largest ongoing cost of any irrigation system. In many communities the cost of water has increased sharply in recent years, and this trend is expected to accelerate. The objective is to use less water while maintaining healthy and verdant grass, flowers and shrubs.
New developments in irrigation technology make possible a degree of precision in watering techniques not previously available. The advantages of a new irrigation system include:
- Areas more evenly watered, preventing over or under watering
- Saves you hours of manual watering each week
- Reduces water loss from evaporation and run-off—much less water used while improving your lawn’s absorption and lowering your bill
By using less water you are substantially reducing your bill, freeing up some of your time, and helping to conserve a vital natural resource. And your lawn will be healthier and look even better!
We also offer all-point inspections and full service maintenance for existing irrigation systems. Call our irrigation experts today for more details.
The temperate climate of the Carolinas is ideal for spending time outdoors for most of the year. Your property’s outdoor areas hold the key to transforming your home into an appealing venue capable of hosting a wide range of family activities, social engagements, and more. Whether it’s for fireplaces or fire pits, kitchens, patios, walkways or retaining walls, our designs will be customized to naturally extend the living space of your home to the outdoor areas. You’ll be sure to increase your own enjoyment as well as that of friends and family—and your property’s value will increase too!
The amenities you select can be built in any shape or size, using any patterns of stone, brick, or tile. They will be designed and constructed to complement the architecture of your home. The outdoors area will become a place to relax and unwind, while you enjoy the sound of crackling fire or gently cascading water. You’ve found a respite from the noise and busyness of the day. Now isn’t this worth looking into? Call us today and we’ll show you how.
Patios are such a classic addition to your outdoor landscape. They’ve always served as an extension of your home, a place to relax on a cool autumn evening. And today there are more options than ever. In addition to brick and concrete, new materials such as landscape and masonry paving stones create a safe and functional surface as well as a look that says natural. Whatever your taste calls for, we work with your yard and nature’s indigenous materials and patterns. Our finished installation looks like it belongs there, blending right in with the natural surroundings and providing you with years of long-lasting enjoyment.
Fire pits can provide you with an opportunity to have some of the camping experience without leaving home. You can feel comfortable and relaxed sitting around a “campfire” in the evening, toasting marshmallows and S’mores. Fire pits are great for evoking humorous stories and adventures in a full circle of friends and family. They also extend your outdoor season by chasing away the chill on cool fall evenings. Options include the ability to fuel the “campfire” with propane, allowing easy starts and quick stops with little mess.
Outdoor fireplaces have a purpose as well: they can be an “anchor” for the outdoor living area. They provide warmth, light and a crackling sound that is simply mesmerizing. Your choice of which of two basic types will determine what follows: wood burning or gas-fired? This often comes down to whether you want the qualities only a wood fire can provide, and how much maintenance you are willing to do.
Either way, we’ll help you to choose a fireplace design that fits the scale of your yard and home. The ambiance that a fireplace can lend to an outdoor area is incomparable—you’ll be thinking of lots of reasons to stay outside long after dark. Watch the stars come out on a crisp fall evening, or the moon rise over a lovely springtime horizon. Call or email us and we’ll explain just how practical these great yard additions can be for your home.
A pergola is a wooden freestanding structure built as an outdoor sitting area that has open joists spanning the top. They are often built on decks or patios and sometimes folks grow vines on them to enhance the appearance. They are distinguished from arbors in that arbors are usually smaller and with a specific purpose: to highlight entranceways or gates. Whether for a cool place to sit outdoors or a shelter from a busy lifestyle, pergolas can be tailored to your taste and intended purpose. Contact us today and we’ll help you choose a design that will perfectly suit your style and plans.
Pools and Ponds
There are many features that could be added to enhance your home’s curb appeal, but perhaps none that ties together all the natural elements of your landscape like a pond. Finding the location on your property that will maximize a pond’s potential is key. A great rule of thumb is to put your pond where it will be seen from the main viewing points of your home and yard. Examples of where to locate a pond include:
- By an existing garden
- Right in the middle of the backyard (for a true focal point)
- In viewing distance of a large picture window or sliding glass door
Keep in mind that the elements you want to include within your pond will impact where it needs to be located. Plants and other aquatic life will need some natural light to grow. However, some of the pond should be shaded to keep the summer sun from overheating the water. We’ll cover all the details regarding planning, construction and maintenance so that your pond will emerge an aesthetic triumph, and bring your landscape fully to life.
Outdoor kitchens have grown very popular over the past decade. And it’s easy to understand why: they add a space to host friends and family, which extends your entertainment options. Outdoor kitchens can be small and simple or as elaborate as any indoor kitchen. Typically they include a grill, counter area for prepping and plating food, and a dining counter or table. If you choose to go all out, it’s possible to run gas, plumbing and electrical lines to the outdoor kitchen, which opens up all kinds of possibilities. You can have a sink, refrigerator or beverage center, additional cooking appliances, lighting, and even a TV or sound system. Now cooking and entertaining outdoors can offer as much variety and fun as cooking indoors!
Walls were once seen primarily as a way of marking boundaries or creating privacy. Today you can use walls to frame your space, provide enhancement for patios, walkways, gardens and more. Walls have other practical uses too—creating a special ambiance, a place where you can add décor, and a space where a vertical garden may grow!
We can work with you to create outdoor wall areas that serve your practical needs while magnifying the natural beauty of the landscape. They can be a great place to add color to your yard or they can blend seamlessly into the background. Either way, your space will shine for years to come and you’ll have a valuable addition to your home’s outdoor living area.
Water features add a sparkling dimension to your outdoor living area. From simple to complex, from classically elegant to playfully whimsical, they include a range of fountains, pools, ponds, cascades and waterfalls. Besides their visual beauty, water features add the sound of gently cascading water that soothes your senses and carries your stress away.
Water features come in all shapes and sizes, and are made from materials such as stone, granite, stainless steel and glass. We’ll assist you in discovering the perfect expression for your commercial property or your residence, while staying within your budget.
Landscaping involves arranging or modifying features of the grounds around a home or other building to improve the property. Most us of consider improvement in two ways: from the standpoint of aesthetic ideas and/or practical usage.
It’s often easier to recognize needed practical improvements. For instance, homeowners usually know that a walkway is broken up and needs repair, that a retaining wall should be built or that a garden area is in need of improved drainage. On the other hand, many of us find it more challenging to make a plan that will improve the aesthetics of a property.
It’s a process that may find you sorting through your essential priorities. For example, “How long am I going to stay in this house?”, and “is a future sale of the property more important than landscaping for my own tastes?” It really can raise a lot of issues and can take a long while to move through. Without help, you can easily start to feel overwhelmed by the many considerations and possible scenarios. But when you hire a seasoned and knowledgeable landscaping company, you have a team to guide you through the maze so you don’t get stuck. And you’re much more likely to make wise choices that will benefit your property for years to come.
How? Reputable landscape designers will help you to ask the right questions and can provide you with the experience and knowledge of what works well and what tends not to. We’ll help you to see where the focal points of your property may be, how to make changes that will emphasize its strengths, and minimize its weaknesses. There’s room for your creative input and vision too. Yet by working with our team of professional landscape designers we’ll show you the potential of your land so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Call our experienced professionals today—you can relax knowing you’re in capable hands with one of the finest landscaping companies around.
Get the full use out of your outdoor areas by adding decorative landscape lighting. With new technology, low voltage lighting has become the system of choice for many. It accomplishes everything a conventional system can and a lot more. By using a low voltage lighting system (LVL), you can improve your home’s energy efficiency, reduce its carbon footprint, and save yourself a bundle in the process.
Many LVL systems are increasingly using LED lighting. LED (light emitting diode) bulbs and LVL systems have major advantages over conventional ones, including:
- Longer life: 50,000 hour LED lamp life (12-15 years!)—this is 10-15 times longer than conventional bulbs
- Super efficient: 93% less energy consumed with LED lighting than conventional bulbs—puts a big dent in your power bill
- Improved aesthetics: Less wire required to install, can be easily hidden
- Safer: standard LVL 12 volt systems are shockless—compare with dangerous 120 volt conventional systems use
LandCare Innovations offers a full array of services that will help your lawn to either attain or sustain its health and vitality. The value of residential and commercial properties increases when the lawn and open areas are attractively maintained. Additionally, your well maintained property contributes to the beauty and harmony of your neighborhood or office park.
We can customize any contract to fit your lawn’s specific requirements as well as your budget.
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