Home Building: 12 things you need to know about working with a landscape designer

We reveal how bringing in a landscape designer can improve your home renovation project or extension

Could hiring a landscape designer improve your home? When planning an expensive home improvement or self-build project it’s easy to focus on the house and forget the surrounding landscape.

Cost plays a big factor in this – you might be working to a tight budget, and decide to chalk landscaping up to a job that you’ll do later down the line. But when the build is finished you’re left with an empty mass staring you in the face through your pristine glazing.

Here’s where a landscape designer or landscape architect comes in. Yes, it’s another investment, but you may decide that factoring the garden design into your costs now could pay dividends down the road.

“Without a doubt, an experienced and knowledgeable landscaper designer will add value in many ways – and that can be from clever use of the initial budget for implementation through to creating durability and resilience in terms of material and plant choices,” says landscape designer and architect, Joe Perkins.

Read the full article here: https://www.homebuilding.co.uk/advice/working-with-a-landscape-designer