Bluestar Landscape Designers

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Landscape Design Before and After Photos

Before and After Photos

Landscape Renovations

By Bluestar Landscape Designers

Nowadays since homeowners are deciding to stay in their homes for a longer amount of time, we are finding that they want to make their landscape what they’ve always wanted it to be. On the other side of the coin, we are also getting calls for staging homes for those who are interested in selling.

We have worked on many landscape makeovers, achieving for our customers the following goals:

Raise property values.

Convert a landscape to an outdoor living area: adding new usable hardscape elements increases the likelihood of your spending time outdoors, in effect increasing the usable square footage of your home. Patio covers, pergolas, water features, lighting, pathways, outdoor kitchens, and firepits all serve this purpose.

Create a more aesthetic and up-to-date landscape: even plants go out of style!

Create a custom landscape: we all need to feel that our outdoor living space is a unique expression of who we are and that we are not just another undifferentiated house on the block.

Introduce curb appeal: it’s nice to pull into the driveway at the end of the day to a pleasant home; it feels even nicer to stand out in the crowd; but it feels best to have your home sell for more!

Solve problems: drainage and irrigation problems are the most common.

Become more green (see our backyard habitat article) by:

  • converting spray irrigation systems to drip;
  • choosing water-conserving plants;
  • using native plants and preserving our native oaks, which in turn helps to stabilize their populations, maintain our unique California natural heritage look, and provide food for wildlife (hummingbirds, butterflies, and other necessary pollinators);
  • minimizing the size of or deleting lawns to conserve water and cut down on herbicides;

Stage a home: The instant punch you’ll get will make it much more noticeable.

Improve business: an attractive parking lot can draw more customers in.

See Our Before & After Photos

Click on a project name below to see photos of our recent landscape remodel projects.

We replaced a front lawn with this attractive courtyard

Creating a Courtyard with Curb Appeal in Rocklin

We took this average looking front yard in Stanford Ranch and turned it into a show stopper, while helping the environment by eliminating all the grass. Although the plantings are important, the hardscape is what provides the curb appeal.

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New landscape design for a home in Sacramento

Custom Brick Work, Lighting & Expert Planting Design Create Curb Appeal in Sacramento

The previous landscape did nothing to highlight the beauty of this gorgeous brick home, so we added urns, color, rock & a lighted, curved stairway to create a dramatic first impression.

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Re-designed front yard in Stanford Ranch, Rocklin, CA

New Courtyard Creates More Outdoor Living Space in Rocklin Stanford Ranch Home

You could barely see the front door of this house and it looked like any other one until we got to work creating a functional & beautiful path to the front door.

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Customizing a landscape in Sun City Lincoln Hills

Customizing a Landscape in Sun City Lincoln Hills

These homeowners in Sun City, Lincoln wanted to customize their front and rear yard landscapes. We introduced new hardscape features (pots and trellises) and added more color with flowering plants.

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Roseville back yard landscaping re-designed

Staging a Home in Roseville: Removing Concrete

This Roseville home was purchased by an investor who makes his money by flipping houses. Major landscape changes to the rear yard helped to enable a quick sale.

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A complete backyard landscape re-design of a home in Lincoln, CA

Lincoln Embellishments Dress Up This Backyard

We made some simple, but dramatic improvements to this massive backyard of a Catta Verdera home in Lincoln in order to showcase this incredible outdoor space much more effectively.

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New curb appeal at at home in Carmichael, CA

Carmichael Curb Appeal

The homeowners of this residence in a newer subdivision in Carmichael, CA really loved the interior of their home, but felt that the front yard could use some curb appeal & separation from the neighbors.

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Japanese garden design and installation in Auburn, CA

Auburn Woodland Turned into Japanese Garden

This Auburn front yard landscape was inspired by the last sentence of the initial interview with the homeowner when she said, “Oh, and by the way, if you can make it be a Japanese garden, I’d love that.”

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