A deck is the one part of a landscape that has to hold people up, which puts it in a different category from everything else in the yard. Comparing deck contractors in Novato, CA comes down to three things a sample board will not tell you: who draws it and who builds it, what the framing is made of, and how the surface meets the ground it sits above.

After sunset a Marin garden becomes a question of what you chose to reveal. Hiring an outdoor lighting company in Novato, CA means working inside three local constraints at once: oak canopy that changes the plan every few years, county guidance on light spill in wildland-adjacent areas, and defensible space rules that govern what can sit near a structure. 

Heritage Landscapes was started more than thirty-five years ago by Jan, a mother designing edible gardens for Bay Area families, and is now run by second-generation owners Dave and Almora out of Novato.

Still water is the hardest element to add to a garden after the fact. A pond contractor in Novato, CA works against a dry-summer climate, a water district that bans topping off non-recirculating features, and hillside lots where a basin has to hold without moving. 

Our designers place water where the rest of the garden already wants it, then build the basin for those conditions.