The gate everyone in the house used, and nobody could close
A warped, silvered gate wedged between the house and the garage, hanging off a frame that had rotted at the post. Rebuilt in cedar, hung square, latching properly.
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Properties that were already worth it.
Most of the work on this page did not involve replacing anything. It involved finding the line that had gone soft, the edge that had disappeared, the surface that had stopped draining, and putting it right. That is usually what curb appeal actually costs.
The bed had not grown. It had spread.
Groundcover had crossed the walkway edge and swallowed the bed line at the front corner of the house. Cleared, re-shaped, mulched, and given a curve that follows the concrete.
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Twenty feet of hedge with no bed underneath it
A mature cedar hedge running the length of the yard, with a ragged strip of weeds and leftover perennials at its base. Given a proper curved bed, new planting and a clean edge to the concrete.
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New sod against a patio and a fence that were staying put
A back yard where the paving and the fence were fine and the grass had given up. Stripped, graded and re-sodded wall to wall, cut clean to the existing stone.
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Finishing the ground around work that was already done
A rear yard left rough after other trades had finished. Graded, sodded and run cleanly up to the curved walkway and the beds along the property line.
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Building the edge of a property, not just a fence
A hundred and eighty linear feet of six-foot pressure-treated fence in Downsview, and gate and boundary work on several other properties, where the fence, the planting in front of it and the surface beside it were treated as one edge rather than three separate trades.
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A side-yard bed that had stopped reading as a bed
An overgrown shrub, a bed line that had disappeared into the lawn, and interlock losing its edge. Cleared, pruned back to structure, re-edged and mulched.
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Rebuilding a front lawn around the stonework that was already right
Armour stone, a curved walkway and a mature Japanese maple, with tired turf between them. The hard landscape stayed. The ground it sat in got rebuilt.
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Clearing a townhouse driveway down to a surface people can walk on
A packed, rutted driveway and a buried walkway, cleared to the pavement with the snow stacked on the property and the walking surface treated.
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Show me what you're working with.
A few photos and your postal code are enough to start. I'll tell you honestly whether it needs work or just needs finishing.