Whether developing a new yard or revitalizing an older one, Amitola Design Concepts can help you create a stunning landscape that is tailored to your needs.
Anaya Gene-Webb takes design to the next level. Amitola’s residential landscapes go beyond basic pretty plant colors to bring holistic, value-added and comprehensive yard layouts. Within the larger plan she may design specialized gardens in keeping with individual client tastes, the energy of the space, and its microclimate.
If you are seeking outdoor rooms or gardens within gardens here are some examples of rooms within the Landscape Design that Anaya Gene-Webb, has created through her career:
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Anaya combines her extensive knowledge of horticulture with client needs to create spectacular yards that not only enhance curb appeal and property value, but also create spaces that you can be proud of and truly enjoy. Some try to copy, but nobody can match the unique pleasure and comfort of Anaya's designs.
Talk to a professional about your yard.
This service is for those that have a developed yard and want to chat with a professional for tips and refinements.
- Spend a few hours with an expert talking about about your yard
- Tips, refinments, care of, discussion
Rates
Hourly rate (effective January 31, 2011) $250.00 per hour + GST including one way travel time. One way travel time can vary from 15 to 30 minutes within Edmonton Proper, travel time less than 15 minutes is free.
An Hourly Consultation for the do-it-yourself builder.
Is your new or old yard in need of refurbishments? This service is for hands on people. Meet with Anaya who will collaborate with you on an overall plan, quick sketch, installation tips and notes, and a plant list.
- An average of two to three hours planning and designing with Anaya will give you enough information to begin your landscape project with confidence
- The visit will include discussion and collaboration with you, in and around your yard. You will explore and discuss various ideas and many topics regarding your outdoor spaces.
- A quick sketch will be prepared to represent what we have planned, so that you will have something to work from as you build your dream.
- 'How to' tips and how to make the tasks of building your landscape easier will be discussed.
- A Plant List tailored to you and your landscape will be created.
- You'll have many of your landscape questions answered and a professional to bounce your thoughts and/or ideas off while working through the design process
- Later, if you run into sticky spots, or want clarification, Anaya is always happy to chat with you and provide additional guidance. Follow-up-services and project assistance are always available during construction, just in case you get stuck or just want to make sure you're on the right track.
Rates
Hourly rate (effective January 31, 2011) $250.00 per hour + GST including one way travel time. One way travel time can vary from 15 to 30 minutes within Edmonton Proper, travel time less than 15 minutes is free.
Design Drawings for Who?
Technical Drawings are for homeowners wishing to procure, or have us procure, estimates from contractors and/or for detailed, personalized outdoor spaces that require technical definition. Technical Design Drawings are most appropriate where there is need for tight specification. For example, hard surfacing, retaining wall or pond systems, structures and decking, plant community specification, or personalized spiritual spaces.
This service provides scaled, contractor-ready, technical drawings.
This service provides customized, hand rendered Design Drawings. These are the building instructions for your personalized Landscape Design that you co-created. The Drawings look like blue-prints and they contain information important to the people building your landscape. Reliable builders tend to use and value the detail and information in the Technical Design Drawings; most unreliable or inexperienced builders detest it.
Three Meetings:
- Preliminary meeting: Site Analysis and needs assessment so that the design can capture your needs and tastes
- Second meeting: Conceptual drawings are presented for review. This provides you the opportunity to review and revise the design.
- Final meeting: Presentation of technical Design Drawings for your project. These are the 'blueprints' you need to have your personalized Design built, whether by a contractor or by yourself.
We'll discuss and provide recommendations for implementing the design drawings. We provide professional tips on construction, finding, selecting and working with contractors. We'll discuss some of the maintenance aspects of your new design so that it will grow to fruition.
Rates
Every residential yard is different: the architecture and footprint of the buildings varies greatly, the outdoor spaces are different in dimension and "feel", and so are the site conditions. Each family is unique, as is each person living there. How people wish to expand into their intimate outdoor spaces usually involves beauty and personal connection so this too varies from one residence to another. Custom carpentry detail takes more time to specify than prefab carpentry; photoimaging adds additional time to sketching. There are always differences in design, meeting and studio times, therefore the cost of the Technical Design Drawings vary. The Design process start to finish usually takes six weeks to two months.(Effective November 1, 2010) Complete residential Technical Design Drawings (layouts or blueprints) start at $5000.00 (average $7500-$10000 + GST). Travel time is included within Edmonton Proper. Startup and interim payments are required as the design process progresses.
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Project Management Services available.
Beyond Planning and Design we offer Project Management Services (if it is to be contractor built) and Project Assisstance (if it is to be owner built).
Project Management Services are available for a limited number of projects. Project Management Services are for owners who wish to see their Design built on specification by contractors, but who do not have the time and/or skills needed to manage this often stressful and confusing phase of a project. We acknowledge that tweaking is an everyday part of any construction but it is sad to learn from disappointed owners, who managed the project themselves, that they had unwittingly agreed to short sighted changes during construction. These changes, far beyond tweaking, often collaspe the design, esthetically or functionally, partially or entirely. We also have seen where owners were charged in full for the construction of the design even though shortcuts were taken. We have seen trees that grow 50' substituted for the specified trees that grow to 12'.
In Project Management we work with clients to find contractors, to get a handle on the estimates, and to manage the business of getting the Landscape Project built on specification.
Rates
Project Management and Project Assisstance rates project pending.
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