Backyardcraftsman.com
"Where Craftsmanship Meets Nature"
Backyard Craftsman is the internet domain of Landscape Renderings Inc., which focuses on creating useful, beautiful, and "outside the box" outdoor living areas in the greater Kansas City area. In landscaping Kansas City, Landscape Renderings stands apart from others who landscape Kansas City by creating living spaces a far cry away from the massive plantings of shrubs once so common in Kansas City landscaping. "Many people want the color, texture, Fall color, and structure that shrubs provide, but they don't want the constant maintenance that comes with massive shrub plantings", says Brett Berry, CEO and Chief Landscape Designer of the Lee's Summit, Missouri based landscaping company. "Most of our clients work hard and have very little time to actively maintain a large, densely landscaped yard. So we have devised strategies to make their Kansas City landscape more beautiful than ever, yet with far less maintenance", Berry adds.
Continues Berry, "In landscaping Kansas City, there is a clear trend toward a cleaner, more defined look. It may be influenced by a more modern viewpoint. So, as a Kansas City landscape designer, I've moved a lot of our company's design in that direction. Another kansas city landscape architect might not think the same way. However, in our circle of clients, in large and small jobs, we've seen a definite shift toward less cookie-cutter shrub-heavy projects to artisan-crafted backyards. We feel landscaping Kansas City this way is cleaner, useful and less maintenance.
The scale of projects has varied from small landscaping Kansas City projects not requiring much from a Kansas City landscape designer or residential Kansas City landscape architect to projects requiring many sets of blueprints, subsequent landscape designs and "flexible creativity". Landscape Renderings has also completed jobs outside of the Kansas City area up to 2 hours away. Says Berry, "Some of our most wonderful jobs have been involving small back yards such as in Brookside or even in some newer Johnson County homes. Small yards can definitely have a greater sense of intimacy and connectedness with the home than larger yards. However, I've loved completing larger projects involving large residences and grand outdoor living areas on acreages as large as 17 acres. One of these projects was the site for a wedding with more than 300 people, 3 caterers, 7 tents, a poolside dance on a patio we had constructed, a band and many, many small groups of people mingling and talking in the various seating areas we built. It was at night and it was lit primarily with our landscape lighting system. It was one of the most fun parties my wife and I had ever attended."
The single point of contact with Landscape Rendering's is another appealing aspect to prospective clients. As both a Kansas City landscape designer and contractor, Landscape Renderings is able to be a single point of contact in most cases. Says Berry, "When landscaping Kansas City residents' yards it's very appealing to them to have a single point of contact on a project that may involve 10 or more subcontractors. We can organize electrical, plumbing, irrigation, landscape lighting, water feature, patio, outdoor kitchen, landscaping, garden, masonry, fireplace, firepit, deck, porch, covered porch and covered patio, pergola, fence, pool landscaping, and arbor projects, among other things."
The scope of Landscape Renderings work usually revolves around an outdoor living area like a custom outdoor kitchen, patio, deck, pool landscaping although at times, it's just beautifying a tired plant, tree and shrub scheme. Many customers have chosen to install landscape lighting with their newer landscaping. Notes Berry, "Landscape lighting with the up-to-date fixtures we use really brings a home in our modern day and age. Some lighting out there is 30 or 40 or more years old. Having a new landscape lighting system installed with a new landscape project can make a home instantly seem 30 years younger on the outside, which then translates into making a home feeling warmer, fresher, and more relaxed."
"When we've created a project the right way, the space feels relaxed, definitely not busy. It's like it's been in place with the home for many years and not an "add on". Mostly it's difficult to describe, but people just want to spend time in the new pool landscaping area, at the bar of the outdoor kitchen, reading on the shady new patio, or catching a fine breeze on a covered porch you've just built. When the space becomes a large part of their lives, that's when you know you've completed a project with excellence."
Backyardcraftsman.com is the domain of Kansas City landscaping company, Landscape Renderings Inc. Based in Lee's Summit, Missouri. The landscaping company, utilizing a Kansas City landscape designer, performs landscaping in Kansas City including the following: outdoor kitchen, custom outdoor kitchen, outdoor fireplace, outdoor stone fireplace, outside fireplace, outdoor masonry fireplace, landscaping waterfall, landscape waterfall, garden fountain, landscaping boulders pond, garden waterfall, landscape lighting, landscape light, pool landscape, and pool landscaping projects.
