Picture Build

Picture Build and the crew lead by Max installed 8 large trees, 5 vines, a 4-zone irrigation system and a stone pathway and patio. The work was performed at a very high level. We are very happy with the result and professionalism of the crew. Thank you Picture Build!

We worked with Dana, Jorge, and Fidel and their crew, and are very pleased with the results. They installed a beautiful paver driveway with stairs and artificial turf for us (turf in the front and back yard). We've already received many compliments from passerbys about the lawn!

Brian Godley (Picture Build) did a fantastic job on our landscaping, and was a pleasure to work with. When we moved into our first house last year the front and backyard needed a total makeover (half-dead lawns courtesy of the drought), plus the driveway was ugly cracked asphalt. We hired Brian (after faithfully checking his references) because he had totally re-landscaped two houses in our neighborhood and we could tell by how they looked that he did real quality work. He explained the different types of hardscape—gravel, mulch, artificial turf—and created a design plan for us. He very patiently went through several re-designs until we settle on what we wanted, which turned out to be a mixture of artificial turf (which we had wanted from the beginning) and drought tolerant plants in mulch. We had originally wanted to replace the driveway with concrete and requested some pretty brickwork like almost all of the houses nearby had. Brian suggested instead that we go with pavers, saying that they would really make the place stand out. He was so right! Ours is the only house with pavers in the neighborhood and it looks really terrific, we’ve gotten tons of compliments on them. He helped us select a color palette that matched the house which was had just had repainted. The workmanship on the driveway as well as a double pathway we had him do out front shows great attention to detail, you can really tell someone took the time and effort to do it right. I love plants and flowers, but I almost love the stonework he did more! Both front and back gardens turned out great. Instead of a regular square of lawn with plants around it, in the front the artificial turf looks more like a wave, an accent among the plants in the mulch. In the back, we wanted to look out and see an expanse of green instead of brown, and the artificial turf gave us that. (Before you do a project like this, you say “fake grass,” but by the end, you’re telling everyone it’s “artificial turf!, don’t you know?”) We even had him put in a hard curb on front of house, because for some odd reason it didn’t have one. He finished the job on schedule, which was fantastic, since so many jobs end up running over the deadline. He used high-end materials, and it shows. We are very happy with the results, and highly recommend Brian and his company Picture Build to anyone who wants to turn their current garden/driveway into something really special to be proud of and to be happy to coming home to every day.