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Landscaping Northern Virginia
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Landscaping Northern Virginia

Getting Started with Landscaping

Before you jump into a landscaping project, it’s good to have a plan. Once you’ve determined what landscape design elements you think will work best for your outdoor spaces you can start to see the project scope, budget, and timeline. Having a solid plan will assist you in deciding to DIY or hire a professional landscaping company.

Hiring a Landscaping Contractor

What’s great about hiring a landscaping company is you have professionals planning and completing your project. And while landscaping companies can be a good option for all project sizes and budgets, they’re especially helpful with bigger landscape needs.

But hiring outside help can have its drawbacks as well. In many cases, hiring professional landscapers comes at higher cost than the DIY route—you can even run into situations where you end up going over your budget as project scope, materials, and hours change. In addition, you could encounter weather delays, company staff changes, and other unforeseen work interruptions that can change your timeline.

If you’re thinking about hiring a professional company to do your landscape design, be sure to shop around, research companies, and check online reviews. This can help you find the right professionals to help you with your project and stay within your budget and on your ideal schedule.

Basic Landscape Design Elements

Thinking about what landscaping you want on your property? Though you’ll probably have your own unique ideas for how you want your yard to look and what features you’ll want to highlight, there are a few simple architectural elements you’ll want to incorporate into your landscape.

Line

If you’re looking for ways to make your landscape stand out, emphasize lines in your design. Lines create focal points with landscape objects like a water flower garden by naturally creating pathways for the eye to follow. Whether it’s a perceived line (i.e., several objects in a row leading to a location) or a physical path or walkway leading to the feature, lines provide direction for your landscape design.

Form

Form helps you achieve your desired landscape aesthetic by highlighting the three-dimensional elements of objects to create a visual theme in your yard. Looking for a more welcoming, cozy feel? Rounded plants and curved walkways give your landscape a sense of fluidity that feels more intimate. Or maybe you’d prefer a more traditional, formal look? Rigid structures and straight lines can convey formality and provide clear distinctions between outdoor spaces.

Color

One of the most important design elements is color, which helps set the theme for your landscape design. Warm colors such as red, yellow, and orange create excitement and make objects feel closer. On the other hand, cool colors like blue, green, and purple offer a more tranquil feel. You can use colors in unity to convey an overall look or in contrast to create depth and separate different areas of your yard.

Texture

Most commonly found in professional gardens, texture adds variety and visual interest to your landscape. Stems, leaves, trunks, and flowers all have different textures (i.e., coarse, medium, fine, heavy, light). Similarly, pavements, water features, and other hardscape materials incorporate different textural elements into the look of your yard. You can even mix different textures to create depth and balance in your yard.

Why You Should Choose a Nova Construction Pro Landscaping

At Nova Construction Pro, we are a highly experienced landscaping company.

We offer turn-key landscaping projects which means we will take care of everything required by your local building authority including permits, blueprints, and inspections. Contact us for a free written estimate. 

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Eric R.
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Ram was very responsive, and gave us an excellent rate for our masonry job. His people did fantastic work, and everything was completed on-time. I will definitely contact Ram again next time I need work done.
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Highly recommend this contractor. I normally hate hiring contractors, but Ram was very knowledgeable, super courteous, and he gave me a fair price for my concrete job—and importantly, he didn’t oversell it. He was prompt and remained in contact from beginning to end of the job and his crew was professional and thorough. I would definitely call on Ram again should I need more such work done in the future.
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I found this company from internet search w/o any referral so little bit worried at first encounter but found that they are very knowledgeable and did a excellent job on time and wrapped up perfectly.
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The managers were friendly and knowledgeable and, while there was a little confusion early on (the source of my leak ended up being more complicated than expected), they did excellent work and got it all done much more quickly than expected. My house is waterproofed and everything is clean, dry, and back to the way it should be.
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What an AMAZING job on my patio!!! My neighbors are now wanting them to build their patios. Ram was such a gentleman and so awesome to work with. He made so many accommodations for me, from timing, design change, and exchanging my stone to get the job done. I couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome. Their pricing was the best out of all the contractors that I looked at. You can’t go wrong. Also, the patio came out much better than I would have ever imagined. I highly recommend them for your home needs.
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I had a retaining wall and new fence installed and I could not be happier with the quality of work and the customer service. From working with Ram who worked with me on the estimate to Gary who oversaw the project, they were top-notch professionals. They did everything they said they would do with the highest standard of quality and kept in touch with me through the entire process

Serving Northern Virginia & Washington DC

Nova Construction Pro offers home improvement, design build, and general contracting services for residential and commercial customers located throughout Northern Virginia and Washington DC including the following counties and cities; Arlington County, Fairfax County, Loudoun County, and Prince William County, including these cities; Ashburn, Aldie, Alexandria, Annandale, Bristow, Burke, Clifton, Centreville, Chantilly, Countryside, Dale City, Dulles, Dumfries, Fairfax, Fairfax City, Fairfax Station, Falls Church, Gainesville, Great Falls, Haymarket, Herndon, Kingstown, Lansdowne, Langley, Lake Barcroft, Lake Manassas, Lake Ridge, Leesburg, Lorton, Manassas, Manassas Park, McLean, Newington, North Springfield, Oakton, Oak Hill, Occoquan, Purcellville, Potomac Falls, Reston, Springfield, South Riding, Sterling, Stone Ridge, Triangle, Tyson’s Corner, Vienna, Yorkshire, and Woodbridge.