Strategic Boulder Placement and Landscape Sculpting

see how this one turns out when it comes to landscaping a front yard there's a lot of things that you can do but sometimes the most important thing I think gets overlooked and that's the customers budget and creating something that they're happy with without forcing them to feel uncomfortable about their finances I see a lot of people that are willing to compromise their own financial security and take out a loan or overextend themselves just a little too far because they get this emotional surge of something that they really want to have that emotional surge can be pretty dangerous a lot of times I like to try to reel my customers back we can create something pretty neat without busting the budget without going to the bank and trying to secure a loan to do it and so a lot of times I tell the customers let's establish a budget number that you're comfortable with and then let's come up with a few different options and see which one maybe will fit and then if there's nothing that really makes you happy well then let's look at other options after that so the original scope of this job was the customer had a failing retaining wall that was holding up their driveway and the salt degradation had gotten to it and much destroyed it we ended up building a boulder retaining wall along the side of the driveway and they wanted something in the front of the house just to help blend things together but they didn't have a big budget to do it and so another option that we look at is we can always split the work up in twos yearly sections we can do one portion of a job one year and then another portion another year and a third portion another year we've done projects over the course of seven years because it was just easier on the customer to financially delegate or set up their budget that way now in this case we're doing this front yard we did the side retaining wall but there's more work to do around this house but that'll be down the road the level of the top like you got a little drip on that gravel sweat equity another part another thing that we try to work with our customers is to do the hard parts of the job that they really can't do like moving these boulders in place would be pretty tough for these guys but they can plant it they can mulch it they can do a lot of things so I'd like to ask the customer what kind of things that they enjoy doing and then leave those things out of the job and let them participate in the creation of their own project when they start…