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Bluestar Landscape Designers is a custom landscape design
company dedicated to creating beautiful outdoor living spaces
that suit your style. We work with you to create an aesthetic,
functional, and affordable landscape. We have worked on hundreds
of projects covering a broad spectrum of services, from one-time
hourly consultations to full sets of plans, from small yard
makeovers to large landscapes. We can help you through all the
phases of your landscape, starting with the development of a
vision and plan for your yard, then coordinating solicitation of
bids from the skilled contractors who build for us, and finally
overseeing the project to make sure it is built according to our
creative vision. Please see our
Services page for more information on what all we can
offer you. Our service area includes Roseville, Rocklin, Granite
Bay, Sacramento, Auburn, Meadow Vista, Lincoln, Grass Valley,
Nevada City, Folsom, El Dorado Hills, Elk Grove, and Davis.
Who Uses Bluestar Landscape Designers?
What Kinds of Outdoor Living Spaces Do
We Design?
Why Do You Need a Designer?
What Sets Bluestar Landscape Designers
Apart from Other Landscape Design Companies?
Who Uses Bluestar Landscape Designers?
We design for homeowners, landscape contractors, home
builders, staging companies, the do-it-yourselfer, realtors, landscape architects, 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.
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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.
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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.
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designers are able to: Help you figure out what
your vision is (what you want in a
landscape),
Translate the vision of a usable and beautiful yard
into a plan,
Draw the plan to scale so that all elements
fit together in the most functional and beautiful
way possible. Explain the broad picture of the
landscape process so that it is tackled in the right
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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.
There is nothing
wrong with building a landscape gradually, but having a design
at the beginning helps to eliminate the pitfalls of this
approach. We have been called out to redesign many jobs that
were not designed or built properly to begin with. Concrete
patios are too small to be usable, or are too large and are
unused (they can also add to the heat load, becoming unbearably
hot). Unsuitable plants die from too much sun, grow to be too
large, or are too small for the space they need to fill. Yards
do not provide the functions that the homeowners want and need
from their yard. Elements are commonly out of scale with each
other, and the space just really doesn’t look as aesthetic as it
could.
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. In
addition, as previously mentioned, designers understand the
landscape process. 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 save you
money.
Obviously, the fewer poor choices a
homeowner makes on a project results in the fewer fixes you’ll
have to make, all amounting to more money in your pocket. This
is true not only for expensive hardscaping, but for plants as
well.
For the do-it-yourself customer, we can get you plants at
discounted prices.
And finally, because we work with
several different contractors throughout Sacramento, Roseville,
Rocklin and adjoining areas, we are able to find you the most
competitive price and best contractor for your landscaping
project. We do not charge extra for this service.
Landscape designers can eliminate
the headache, 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. Although the design part of the process often is fun,
for many customers, soliciting, understanding, and negotiating
bids can be a de-energizing experience. If you desire, we can
handle this stage of the process ourselves, without any
additional fees. This allows you to relax and have fun with the
entire process. The headache is gone.
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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
and overseeing construction of all landscaping styles.
Please look at our
photo gallery and
before and after page 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.
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Our service area includes:
Roseville
Rocklin
Granite Bay
Sacramento
Auburn
Meadow Vista
Lincoln
Grass Valley
Nevada City
Folsom
El Dorado Hills
Elk Grove
Davis |
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.
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Email:
cathie@bluestarlandscapedesigners.com
Phone: (916) 624-1984
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