Bluestar Landscape Designers is a custom landscape design company dedicated to creating beautiful outdoor living spaces that suit your style. Our landscape design services cover a broad spectrum of projects from small yard makeovers to large landscapes (acres). Our service to you may range from a one hour consultation to a full set of plans. We also offer post-design consultation work. Serving Sacramento, Placer, Nevada, and El Dorado counties, we provide mainly residential landscape designs, but also do some commercial work. Please see our services page to learn about the many ways in which Bluestar Landscape Designers can help you with your landscape design needs.

Who Uses Bluestar Landscape Designers?

We design for homeowners, landscape contractors, home builders, nature lovers, realtors, landscape architects, cohousing residents, condo owners, landlords, tenants, and commercial building owners. We feel equally comfortable with designing for city dwellings and suburban landscapes, as well as country landscapes and estates. For some customers, we merely help them to make their container gardens or courtyards look good.

We strive to make our customers feel comfortable with the landscape design process (please see our page which tells you how the process works). Our down to earth staff starts with where you are. For some, this means you may not be sure of where to even start or have no clear vision of what you want. We enjoy helping our customers figure out what it is they are looking for in their outdoor living space, then we design it, and help them to find an installer to make it come to life.

Other customers may have a pretty firm idea of what they are looking for; some even have a basic design drawn on paper. With them, we serve as a catalyst, intermediary, or translator, for drawing their design to scale and helping them to connect all the dots for making their dream landscape design become a reality.
 

What Kinds of Outdoor Living Spaces Do We Design?

At Bluestar Landscape Designers, we design a beautiful landscape to fit your style, not ours. We enjoy and have experience designing all types of landscaping styles.

Are you seeking a space that’s soothing and relaxing? Maybe you would like a lush woodland garden.

Would you like a sophisticated formal garden that reminds you of England or Tuscany?We can design that for you.

Maybe you would like an outdoor living space that makes you feel like you’re in the tropics—sensual and hot? …All within the experience of our landscape designers.

Not sure what your style is? We’ll help you discover it.

No matter what your style is, we can create front yards that are traffic-stoppers, backyards that are tranquil oases.

Or sometimes our customers just say, “We don’t care. Just make it beautiful.” And that’s what happens.

Why Do You Need a Designer?

You need a vision and a plan. Don’t be piece-meal about it.

Your chances for getting that beautiful landscape that you’ve always desired are greatly improved if you start with a vision from which you develop a plan. The installation process is relatively easy, and can happen as slowly or quickly as you desire.

One of the biggest mistakes that homeowners make when putting in a landscape is to take a “piece-meal” approach to it. This can happen for various reasons: perhaps you are excited about a new landscape and just want to get started, or maybe you don’t have the finances to put in everything you’d like all at once, so you start putting in one element at a time.

This can result in elements being out of scale to each other, unusable spaces, unsuitable plants being used, and a general lack of aesthetics. In the long run, it costs you money and frustration.

Here are real life examples of what we’ve seen happen when a landscape designer is not used:

You decide you need a patio right away, so you have a contractor come out and pour one. Later you discover that a portion of your patio is unusable because it is too small to be functional. You also realize you forgot to put a planter in right next to your house, and now it’s summer and so much concrete feels really hot!

You want some instant screening from your neighbor, so you put redwoods in two feet from your back fence. Once they start taking over your yard and your neighbors’, you figure out that you should have used a different plant.

You want some plants in right away to make you feel at home, so you go to the store and buy ones that look pretty that day. Six months later some of the plants are being scorched by the sun for lack of proper placement, and others are overtaking your walkway because you put in plants that get 5 feet wide in a 2 foot space.

A good landscape designer has knowledge that you don’t have.

There are some homeowners who are quite good naturally at designing their own yards, but usually, even the best could use some professional advice in one area or another. Landscape designers are trained in the fields of art and design, and usually spend years developing a true understanding of how to use plants in the landscape. Why reinvent the wheel?

The plan is the springboard for building the landscape of
your dreams.

Plans tell builders just what you and the designer had in mind, for both hardscape and softscape elements. This enables you to get bids for how much a project will cost, as well as compare apples to apples when looking at those bids. For example, a plan might call out flagstone stepping stones on individual mortar pads (the mortar pads help to reduce rocking). Having this in writing on the plan sets a standard for building and for quoting.

Landscape designers can make the process fun and let you relax.

Many customers say they feel lost and overwhelmed by the idea of getting the landscape that they desire. However, after working with us, they find themselves having fun with the design process. Use a landscape designer who will allow you to express your dreams, then help you to realize them.
 

What Sets Bluestar Landscape Designers Apart from Other Landscape Design Companies?

We have clarity in vision and communicating.

Our landscape designers’ clarity in vision, ability to interpret the customers’ wishes, and our creative talents make us effective in designing beautiful landscapes. We are passionate about our work, engaging fully in each project.

We enjoy the people aspect of our work and discovering how we can match up the right landscape to each customer.

We are organized, communicate well, and are flexible.

We have experience in designing all landscaping styles.

Please look at our photo gallery to get an idea of the wide array of projects on which we have worked. All landscaping styles are fun for us to design, so we are happy to accommodate the style you like.
 

We are good at site design.

We are experienced in optimizing not only space, functionality, and circulation, but can do it in a beautiful way, to boot. We can create secluded, intimate garden rooms, or expansive open spaces that make you feel like your land goes right off into nature.
 

We really have an eye for aesthetics.

We know what looks good together, where to put features so that they stand out the most, how to give you curb appeal. We can help you choose the perfect flagstone and pots. We always keep in mind, though, your tastes and style.
 

We know plants well.

We enjoy the contact with the living aspect of our work—the plants! We have scads of experience in plant design and the many challenges that come with the territory. And we know the plants that will work in this territory. We don’t put in the design plants that won’t make it here, are the wrong plant for the space, or are unavailable. We know the nurseries in the Sacramento area well. Also, we try to be as earth-friendly as we can.
 

We have a pretty good idea how much it will cost to build your design.

Since we have experience in the construction end of building landscapes, we won’t waste your time designing a yard that you really can’t afford.
 

We’re reasonably-priced.

It’s not all about making money to us. We’re doing this because we’re passionate for landscape design.
 

 Email:  cathie@bluestarlandscapedesigners.com

Phone:  (916) 624-1984  or  (530) 878-1984

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