Services | Drakes Design Approach

Our pursuit as a professional design/build landscape construction company is to design and install garden and outdoor living spaces for your home that are comforting and enriching environments for a ‘Lifetime of Living’.   

The Value of Our Attentive Listening… A Key Role in Our Design Approach 

• Schedule a meeting with one of our professional designers at your home to discuss your landscape goals.
• Through a conversation, we will assist you in evaluating your needs and clarifying your vision.  
• Present some preliminary expenditure scenarios based on your determined goals to identify an acceptable construction budget.

Designs Tailored to the Terrain… and Your Budget

• The landscape design process begins with precise ‘field’ measurements of your home and property.
• We prepare a conceptual design exploring creative, cost-effective solutions to realize your vision and goals.
• Through a collaborative approach…our experience and creative capability will guide you to the perfect placement and integration of landscape features to complete your final plan.

Your Landscape Plan… Bid with Confidence!

• Our construction expertise coupled with our attention to value engineering ensures accurate and cost-effective construction proposals.
• Your construction proposal is presented in a categorical format…allowing you the freedom to choose the scope of construction services you wish to pursue.
• Your signed construction proposal will automatically place your project on our construction schedule…where your project will be handled efficiently and conscientiously by our bonded, licensed crews.
• Outdoor living spaces, rooms, and kitchens 
• Restorative and ecological safe habitats 
• Lawns and landscaping 
• Automatic and ecological irrigation systems 
• Water features, ponds, and swimming pools 
• Retaining wall systems 
• Aesthetically pleasing grading and drainage solutions 
• Walkways and patios 
• Decks, fences, and other custom wood structures 

Why Landscape/Design?

Everything we do is in an attempt to make your landscape experience as enjoyable and easy as possible. We take your landscape goals and develop them from start to finish throughout our design/build process.

You save money! You are a vital part of the design process, working closely with a qualified landscape design professional for an affordable cost. 

You save time! Your design professional maintains open communication with our in-house production team. Your wishes, questions, and concerns will not be missed. 

Quality control is maintained throughout the entire process. If at any time you are less than satisfied, there is only one company to contact: Drake's!

The Landscape/Design Process 

• You can initiate the process by either calling our offices (503.777.3337) or by submitting your project information online. 
• A design professional will visit with you at your home to talk about your landscape desires and meet those nearest and dearest to you. 
• We will develop a landscape design that matches your wishes, using our 50+ years of experience making dreams a reality. 
• You are presented with your design and a proposal for installation. 
• Your signed proposal puts you on our construction schedule. 
• We install the highest quality landscape materials available in the Northwest. 
• We follow up our work with a warranty. 
• We do our best to establish and maintain a strong relationship with you so you can enjoy your fabulous yard for years.

Contact us for a complimentary consultation.