What is Eugene General Construction?

Eugene General Construction is reinventing landscape design. Our delightful, all-online design process helps homeowners reimagine their outdoor spaces, including plants, hardscaping, functional spaces (kitchens, pergolas, playspaces), and the exterior of their home, including paint, siding, windows, doors, and roofing.

Eugene General Construction’s talented team of designers and horticulturists use your photos and videos, combined with technology, data, and plant science, to design your outdoor spaces without ever stepping foot on your property. After completing the design portion of the process, we help connect you with a local, vetted contractor who can install your design.

 

Who is Eugene General Construction for?

Eugene General Construction is for anyone who has a yard an outdoor space and wants to improve it.

 

How is Eugene General Construction different than traditional landscape design?

Eugene General Construction’s process and scope of work set us apart from traditional landscape design.

We created Eugene General Construction as an alternative to the time and cost-intensive process of traditional landscape design. Through our online design studio, we empower homeowners and designers with technology, connecting clients with the best design talent, working on your timeline (no mid-day site visits), and keeping costs low.

In refining the process of landscape design, we’ve also realized the limitations of traditional landscaping’s scope of work. We design outdoor spaces that help our clients live better, more beautiful, and sustainable lives outside. We are a one-stop-shop for everything from plantings and hardscape to functional alfresco rooms and exterior design, including paint, windows and doors, and roofing.

 

What can be included in a Eugene General Construction design?

Eugene General Construction designs can include essentially anything you might want in your outdoor space. This list is not exhaustive so if there’s something you don’t see here, but want, please reach out. We almost certainly can design it.

Patios, Decks, Swimming Pools, Pergolas, Pet Spaces, Kids’ Play Spaces, Trampolines, Hot Tubs and Spas, Fences, Saunas, Outdoor Kitchens, Firepits, Plunge Pools, Edible Gardens, Social Front Yards, Driveways, Front Entries, Garage Doors, Exterior Siding. (And more! Just ask.)

 

What can you tell me about Eugene General Construction designers?

Eugene General Construction designers are industry stars, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in design and landscape architecture. We’ve created a unique platform for talented professionals to work on projects like yours. Think of Eugene General Construction as an opportunity to have exceptional talent work on your outdoor space in a way that’s also incredibly efficient for you.

 

Where does Eugene General Construction currently design?

Eugene General Construction designs in all states across the United States! We have experts in every climate and style who can design and build a sustainable yard for your unique space.

 

Why do you offer exterior design?

Over the last two years, we’ve realized how closely coupled a home’s exterior is with its landscaping. In fact, the only time you experience your yard without your home’s exterior is when you’re inside looking out. Paint, siding, windows, and doors are the backdrop for your yard’s plants, hardscape, functional spaces, and furniture.

 

Do Eugene General Construction designs usually get installed exactly as scoped?

That’s up to you! But rarely does any design — landscape, interior, or whole home — get built exactly as scoped. We encourage you to think of your conceptual designs from Eugene General Construction as a communication tool to convey a vision to your licensed contractor. Your final designs will include either CAD plans or a 2D render with dimensions, planting layout, specific plant names, and basic materials callouts, but some last-mile design decisions will be made in the field with the help of your contractor.

 

I have a set budget. How do you keep my design inside of it?

At the beginning of the Eugene General Construction design process, you’ll go through our proprietary onboarding exercise to help you understand what configuration of hardscape, softscape, and exterior elements will work in your outdoor space, and at what budget. With that knowledge, you’ll share your all-in budget with your design team. For people who plan to phase their build out, as many of our clients do, this is the budget for all phases. Your designer will then create your design with that number in mind. However, there are always variables — like the materials and plant sizes you ultimately choose — that can bring down costs. When we match you with a contractor, budget is usually where that conversation starts. We believe budget needs to be a central part of the process for us to deliver a design you can implement.

 

How do design revisions work?

Every design package comes with at least one thorough round of revisions, and our Premium package comes with two rounds of revisions. We offer additional revisions for $295. The vast majority of our clients arrive at a delightful design with our standard process, and many collaborate directly with their contractor on last-mile design decisions. Since it’s common to make final design decisions in the field, we will happily make revisions to any CAD plans included with your design without charge during the build process. We call those “red lines” in the construction world.

 

What if Eugene General Construction does not have contractors in my area?

The Eugene General Construction Pro Network is growing every day, but there are cases where we don’t yet have a Pro who meets our high bar in certain areas. This is most common in rural areas with a low overall supply of contractors, or in areas where we’re newly offering our designs services. In these cases we’ll put forth a best effort to find and vet a landscape contractor who can bring your design to life.