PLAN BEFORE YOU BUILD

    Landscape Design in Farmington, MO — From Sketch to 3-D

    Landscape design in Farmington, MO is the difference between a yard that was planned and a yard that just accumulated. Revolution Landscapes & Construction designs outdoor spaces on paper first — in 2-D plans or full 3-D — so you can see the finished yard, adjust it, and price it before a single shovel of clay gets turned. Design is where good projects are won.

    Veteran-Owned SDVE
    Design-Build
    2-D & 3-D Plans
    NALP Member

    What Our Landscape Design Includes

    A complete design covers layout, planting plan, materials, and phasing. Layout places the big pieces — patio, walkways, lawn areas, beds, walls — where the site actually supports them. The planting plan names every tree, shrub, and perennial, chosen for this county's soil and sun. Materials get specified down to the paver and the stone. And phasing splits the plan into stages, so you can build it over two or three seasons without redoing anything.

    2-D Plans

    Scaled, top-down drawings that show the whole property at a glance. Ideal for straightforward projects — bed layouts, front-yard refreshes, planting plans — where you mainly need placement and plant selection settled.

    3-D Design

    For bigger transformations, we model the yard in three dimensions so you can see it the way you'll live in it — patio height, sight lines from the kitchen window, how the retaining wall steps down the slope. Changing your mind in the model is free. Changing it after installation is not.

    3-D style rendering view of a backyard with patio and planting beds
    Designer and homeowners walking a backyard discussing the space

    Why Design Before You Build

    Most expensive landscaping mistakes are design mistakes: the patio poured where water drains, the shade tree planted over the sewer lateral, the beds that outgrow their space in three summers. A few hundred dollars of planning routinely saves thousands in rework.

    Design also produces an honest budget — when every material and plant is named, the quote stops being a guess. And if you need to build in phases, the design guarantees phase two actually fits phase one.

    Designed for This Ground, Not a Catalog

    Farmington and the surrounding Lead Belt sit on clay-heavy, often rocky ground with real slopes and real drainage patterns. Revolution Landscapes & Construction designs around those facts: grading and water management get planned first, plant palettes lean on natives and proven performers that survive a St. Francois County summer, and slopes get terraced or retained instead of fought.

    A design that ignores this ground fails slowly and expensively. Ours start with it.

    Before-style bare backyard dirt lot with stakes and marking paint

    Our Design Process

    1

    Site Visit

    We measure, photograph, and talk through how you want to use the space.

    2

    Concept

    Layout options and a direction conversation.

    3

    The Design

    Your 2-D plan or 3-D model, revised with your input.

    4

    The Number

    An itemized installation quote built from the design, with phasing options if you want them.

    5

    The Build

    Because we're design-build, the crew installing your yard is the same company that drew it. Nothing gets lost in translation.

    Why Homeowners Choose Revolution Landscapes & Construction

    Veteran-owned, Missouri SDVE certified, NALP member — and design-build from the first sketch. You're not buying a drawing from one company to hand to another; you're starting a build with the people who will finish it.

    We'll also tell you the truth in the design phase: if part of your wish list won't work on your lot, or a cheaper material performs just as well, that goes in the conversation, not under the rug.

    Serving Farmington & All of St. Francois County

    We design and build throughout the region — Farmington, Park Hills, Desloge, Bonne Terre, Ste. Genevieve, Fredericktown, Potosi, De Soto, and Ironton.

    Revolution Landscapes & Construction
    6805 State Hwy 32, Farmington, MO 63640
    (573) 366-0460 · revolutionlandscapesmo.com
    Finished designed backyard matching a plan with patio, beds, and landscape lighting at dusk

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    Bring us the wish list; we'll bring the plan that makes it real — and a straight answer on what it costs. Veteran-owned, design-build, based in Farmington.