Process
Step One:
Pick your yard size
These are your different yard sizes:
Step Two:
Pick what you want to go in the yard
Here are some features you could use: pool, patio, fire pit, table set, garden, deck, outdoor bar, swingset, trampoline, hot tub, gazebo, treehouse, trees, shed, bushes, grill, flowerbeds, fencing, pond, and more!
Step Three:
Create the blueprint
Draw, from an aerial view what the yard could look like. Be exact in your sizes. This blueprint is a smaller scale of what you will see in your client's yard.
Step Four:
Find the area and perimeter of anything you add to the landscape
You are responsible for finding all the dimensions and area using any resource you want.
For example: a hot tub can be 3 yards x 3 yards
Step Five:
Determine the area of the grass left open
Wherever you leave room for grass you need to calculate the area because you need to purchase sod to put down on the ground.
Hint: Total yard area minus sum of the area of the elements added.
Step Six:
Figure out the cost
Use prices from stores that you could possibly by your materials from as estimates for the cost of this landscape.
Pick your yard size
These are your different yard sizes:
- 70 yards x 80 yards
- 50 yards x 100 yards
- 60 yards x 90 yards
- 130 yards x 70 yards
Step Two:
Pick what you want to go in the yard
Here are some features you could use: pool, patio, fire pit, table set, garden, deck, outdoor bar, swingset, trampoline, hot tub, gazebo, treehouse, trees, shed, bushes, grill, flowerbeds, fencing, pond, and more!
Step Three:
Create the blueprint
Draw, from an aerial view what the yard could look like. Be exact in your sizes. This blueprint is a smaller scale of what you will see in your client's yard.
Step Four:
Find the area and perimeter of anything you add to the landscape
You are responsible for finding all the dimensions and area using any resource you want.
For example: a hot tub can be 3 yards x 3 yards
Step Five:
Determine the area of the grass left open
Wherever you leave room for grass you need to calculate the area because you need to purchase sod to put down on the ground.
Hint: Total yard area minus sum of the area of the elements added.
Step Six:
Figure out the cost
Use prices from stores that you could possibly by your materials from as estimates for the cost of this landscape.