Highland Park Landscaping & Outdoor Living Company

Most design-build projects in Highland Park land between $35,000-$200,000, depending on how much hardscape and outdoor living you include. A focused upgrade like a patio or a lighting system costs less; a larger project that covers the whole property costs more.

• Landscape Lighting starts around $2,000
• Paver Patios starts around $5,000

Pricing here reflects what Highland Park homeowners expect and what North Texas soil demands underneath. Cheaper bids usually save money on the base, the drainage, or the reinforcement you cannot see, which is exactly where a project fails two years later. After your design you get a fixed-scope proposal, so the number you agree to is the number you pay.

Highland Park's historic lots and exacting standards reward classic, beautifully-detailed design, and patience for the permitting and tree ordinances that come with them.

Highland Park sits in Dallas County, and like most of Dallas-Fort Worth it is built on heavy clay. That soil swells when it takes on water and shrinks when it dries, which is why patios shift, walls lean, and water ends up against foundations when the groundwork is rushed. Every project we build here starts with grade and drainage before anything decorative goes in.

We design and build across Highland Park, including Old Highland Park, Beverly Drive, Lakeside, and Armstrong. We work throughout 75205, 75219. Our crews work near Highland Park Village, Lakeside Park, Turtle Creek, so we know the area rather than just the address.

We also serve nearby University Park, Preston Hollow, Bluffview, Dallas.

Yes. Highland Park is its own town, and its Building Inspection department reviews plans before work starts. The Town requires a permit before construction for drainage work, driveways, walks and terraces, fences, patio covers, electrical work and underground sprinklers. Irrigation, electrical and other trade work has to be done by contractors licensed by the State of Texas and registered with the Town. Applications, plans and inspection requests all go through the Town's online permit system, and inspections have to pass before work is covered up. We prepare the plans and work with the Town and the registered licensed trades on the project to get the permit filed and the inspections scheduled, so you are not the one chasing paperwork. The Town allows construction Monday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., and we plan crew days around that.

Getting this wrong is expensive. Building without a permit can mean removing finished work, which is the most costly way to save time.

The work that comes up most often here is landscape design, landscape lighting, paver patios. That reflects how Highland Park properties are built and what ultra high-income, historic luxury homeowners here tend to invest in.

Because we are a design-build firm, one team handles the design, the hardscape, the planting, the drainage, and the lighting. You get one point of contact and one company accountable for the whole property, in Highland Park, TX and across the metroplex.