Landscape Design In a Day

Carol understood us and got our style for a NW Natural Landscape Design for our North Portland backyard. The design process--Landscape Design in a Day--is very collaborative and were very happy that she surpassed our expectations for low maintenance, no lawn, great textured plantings, back yard landscape design. She used a combination of native plants and low water plants that added to the year round beauty and she understood that we wanted to do some of the work ourselves and helped us make a beautiful-yard-on-a-budget a reality. Our yard was a sanctuary thanks to Carol. We have recently moved to a new home and would love to work with her again. While she was very professional in sharing her expertise, she made us feel like her friends. Highly recommend.

Carol and her assistant, Alana, have been such a pleasure to work with. Both women are incredibly knowledgable about all types of plants. That, coupled with their creative eyes led us to a design plan for our new house that we cannot wait to install. The process was collaborative and we enjoyed the experience very much so. Carol is always prompt and courteous in her communications as well. I highly recommend using this company for your landscaping needs.

Before hiring Carol we were lost. We bought a house with a huge by our standards yard with lots of existing growth, but little cohesion and a lot of underutilized space. We knew that we couldn't afford to overhaul the entire yard all at once but we needed some semblance of a plan. Throughout this process I came to think of Carol as something of a "landscape therapist" in addition to being a skilled landscape designer. Her obvious experience, openness and curiosity immediately put me at ease, and she was committed to figuring out what would work for us specifically. Her business is called "Design in a Day," but she put a significant amount of time into multiple phone calls with us prior to her visit, and it eases my mind knowing that I could call or email her with follow-up questions. As for the plan itself, it's safe to say that we now have solutions to various puzzles that I NEVER would have thought of on my own. The detailed garden plan, including a full plant list and information about where to source both plants and landscaping materials is incredibly helpful. I now feel that we have a plan that we can spend the remainder of our time in this house developing, and that idea is exciting instead of overwhelming. I was initially concerned that a landscape design service wouldn't be suited to our somewhat modest budget and slow timeline, but now I'm glad that we didn't wait a minute longer to contact Carol. Get her before she's all booked up!

Working with Carol was great! We have a complete landscape we love and can execute on our own timeline. Her deep knowledge of plants and versatility in design styles makes her a perfect fit for any yard.

As a Landscape Contractor installing Carol Linday’s projects I appreciated not only her knowledge but her passion for each project. Carol engages her clients in the design process and listens to their ideas. Carol provides her clients with a collaborative Landscape Design often including my opinions to make sure her ideas are feasible. A Landscape Design by Carol represents her years of design work combined with her desire to create what you as the Homeowner want for your Landscape.

Carol and the Landscape Design in A Day team did a great job with our landscape design. She is extremely knowledgeable on all things plant and landscape related, and worked to fulfill our desires for a NW natural look, with cottage style accents. She is very customer focused and spent time reviewing different options to see what appealed to us the most. Her communication and organizational skills are very strong as well. We are very happy we chose Landscape Design in a Day! For plantings, we used Living Elements Landscape, who seamlessly took the project hand-off to get plants in the ground. Overall it was great teamwork and a super experience!

My wife and I worked with Carol Lindsay from Landscape Design in A Day to update the 20 year old landscaping in our back yard and around our back deck. She met with us and listened to our needs and concerns and collaborated with us to develop a design we are very happy with. We were impressed with her knowledge of the plants that work well in the Pacific NW and with her ability to translate our input into a beautiful design that worked for us. I highly recommend you call her to explore how she can help you.

We hired Carol for her design service. We were very pleased with how hard working and throrough she was. Carol came at 10:30 am on a Saturday and worked until 6:30 pm. She asked a lot of questions to make sure she designed exactly what we wanted. She studies how the sun and shade falls on the property. During our conversation she would give us tips on planting and watering. We are very happy with the results and would highly recommend her.

We live in NE PDX and were in desperate need of help of re-imagining both our front & back yards this spring. The simultaneous addition of a puppy to our family and removal of 2 diseased 20"diameter maples in front yard & an apple tree in back yard causing GI-issues for puppy sent us searching the internet for help. Carol's unique 'design-in-a-day' immediately caught our eye. Having never hired any type of landscape professional, Carol made us quickly feel at ease with her straight-forward & collaborative process. After a 30-minute phone interview, we received Carol's initial design package in the mail. The package included: a detailed questionnaire about our land/hard-scape likes and dislikes, cost-saving instructions for completing our own scaled plan of our property, and photo log instructions. Upon our submittal of the initial design package, we scheduled a 6-hour in-home design day with Carol. After walking our property & clarifying any questions she had about our survey responses, Carol diligently prepared multiple layout options for us to consider/discuss as a group. She then took the elements we liked from each of the layout options to create one unifying design that flows beautifully. Carol has provided recommendations for contractors, but we have not yet implemented the design due to summer travel/commitments. However, we look forward bringing our collaborative design to life over the next year! In hindsight, we'd recommend future clients create a Pinterest or Houzz page of their personal land/hard-scape preferences. We did not do this, but it would have likely made the design portion a little easier for Carol ;-