Landscape Services
Whether it is a luxurious retreat, kid-friendly oasis, resort-style haven, garden sanctuary, environmentally friendly xeriscaping, or just a “sprucing up”, SOI has the solution.
SOI is the leading innovator in transforming outdoor spaces into enhanced, livable spaces, and entertaining areas for the most discerning customers. We have a dedicated landscape construction and general construction division to meet your needs, whatever they may be. Employing licensed planners, irrigators, contractors, and committed full-time staff, SOI prides itself on exceeding expectations; no project is too big or too small.
A landscape should capture the homeowner’s individual personality and lifestyle characteristics, encompassing all aspects of the exterior of the house, including both softscape and hardscape. Whether a respite for pets, children, adults, or a combination of all, modern landscape design extends the living area of a residence beyond the four walls; increasing the livability and comfortability of many American’s most valued asset.
At SOI, we can handle all of your landscaping needs, providing exceptional work in:
- Landscape Planning and Design
- Outdoor Living and Entertainment
- Water Features
- Lighting
- Irrigation and Drainage Solutions
- Retaining Structures
- Swimming Pools, Lounge Pools, and Spas
Landscaping planning, design and installation
SOI specializes in all aspects of landscape planning, design, and installation for residential clientele in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. SOI actively works with our clients to assist them in incorporating value-added design strategies that meet their vision within their allotted budget. This includes initial planning efforts, concept design, final plans, and implementation of residential landscapes, hardscapes, and living and entertaining areas.
Outdoor Living
The effective integration between the built and natural aspects of a landscape is vital to the overall usage, livability, and appearance of the landscape.
Extending the living space and entertaining areas of a home can be accomplished with outdoor kitchens, arbors, decks, patios, fireplaces and fire pits. Hardscapes (i.e. paved areas) can break up areas and help give structure and definition to a landscape while blending with the surrounding architecture and setting.
Hardscapes, such as entryways, retaining walls and other masonry features are essential to achieving an overall balanced landscape design. In addition, hardscapes provide sustainable areas that require less regular maintenance and watering. Whether you are looking for stone edging, retaining walls, fire pits, outdoor patios, decorative concrete or stamped concrete, SOI can provide hardscape stonework for any outdoor project.
Water Features
Water features can add a unique focal point to your landscape’s design by integrating both sound and movement. Whether it’s a captivating fountain, waterfall, water gardens, or a Koi pond, SOI has the unique capabilities with special attention to aesthetic detail, timelines, and budgetary constraints to make it a reality.
Water features offer and endless possibility to complement grand front entrances and backyard retreats alike. Combining these aqueous elements with other landscape features can enhance the user experience by effectively unify themes, outdoor living spaces, and entertaining areas. For example, the combination a water feature with a fire pit to double the functionality of your backyard gathering spot or the addition of a semi-circular pond at the edge of your patio. The possibilities are only limited to your imagination!
Synthetic Turf
Synthetic turf is becoming more popular each year. Synthetic turf not only beautifies your yard and saves water it actually provides you with a defined return-on-investment! Think about it – over the 15- to 25-year lifespan of the UVL fade-resistant, high-quality turf you select, you no longer incur the cost of routine maintenance, irrigating, or fertilizing; drainage issues are non-existent. These savings alone can easily exceed $2,000 per year!
Some of the benefits to synthetic turf include:
- Very low Maintenance – no weekly mowing or edging; just as occasional “brooming”
- No chemicals – no need for fertilizer or weed control applications
- No regular irrigation – water periodically to leach out trapped water and contaminants; our professional staff will consult with you about your needs and uses to recommend a watering cycle
- Always manicured – perfect color, perfect height with that just-mowed look all the time
- Durable – perfect surface for kids and pets; withstands heavy usage; virtually worry free
- Environmentally friendly – synthetic fibers are made of recycled and recovered post-consumer waste
Synthetic turf is a great alternative for shaded areas, high traffic areas, and entertaining areas. Whether you are looking to replace existing sod, your own private putting green, a lawn the kids can play in without getting muddy or one the dogs can’t ruin, synthetic turf might be your answer.
Putting greens, sports courts, and play areas
Custom backyard putting greens, sports courts, and play areas can provide the perfect balance to the rest and relaxation features of your landscape. SOI can install synthetic turf for Dad’s own putting green or bocce ball court, pour-in-place sport courts for the basketball and tennis enthusiast, and even install a modular or custom play structure for the kids!
When considering one of these features, our professional staff will work with you to determine the best placement, design, and finish-out meeting your specified needs. Whichever sport or recreational hobby, SOI can bring it to your own backyard!
Irrigation and drainage solutions
SOI provides complete customized irrigation and drainage systems for new and existing homes. Our Licensed Irrigators and dedicated installation crews provide systems that minimize water usage while maximizing water conservation.
Our licensed irrigators can provide you with the knowledge and tools to sensibly maintain your lawn; we offer rain sensors that turn off your system after rainfall has occurred, and even keep your system turned off until the soils water content evaporates and requires additional watering. Additional, freeze sensors protect against an unwanted watering as the seasons begin to transition but irrigation is still required.
Managing stormwater runoff is vital to the livability and use of your outdoor living areas. SOI offers drainage systems that will fit the layout of your unique landscape and property; these range from French Drains, trench and channel drains, catch basins and grates, and pop-up emitters.
Lighting
Landscape lighting can highlight a special feature or provide way-finding. A quality lighting design enhances security and safety by reducing darkened areas and providing for low levels of visibility at otherwise problem areas. Popular lighting options range from pathway lighting (i.e. low lighting), up lighting, down lighting, and lighting of specialty features.
Discriminate lighting of key house and landscape elements can enhance, extend, and even transform the views while extending the living space for the common enjoyment and entertaining well into the night. Prior to installation, it is important to understand the effects of the lighting from indoors and outdoors to mitigate unsightly glare or spillage.
Our lighting experts will seamlessly incorporate landscape lighting into your overall design. We balance design, lighting, functionality and energy usage to create a custom lighting system to fit your landscape. We have in-house lighting experts that can provide design ideas – including temporary evening lighting presentations – continued lighting maintenance services, and replacement of existing landscape lighting systems.
Retaining structures
Whether utilized as a design feature to add depth, dimension, and seating, or serving a purpose such as preserving the natural shape of the property, reinforcing slopes, or mitigating erosion, a retaining wall can enhance or extend the usability of the property.
SOI has the experience and expertise to apply the appropriate product line that meets your specific preferences and design criteria. Retaining wall systems offered include pressure treated wood walls, brick/masonry walls, modular concrete block walls (“cinder blocks”) with or without a veneer, concrete walls, natural rock and stone walls, or a combination of materials to create synergy and tie together themes.
Swimming pools and spas
Your landscape should reflect your lifestyle, and with many North Texan’s, a swimming pool serves as the focal point to their outdoor living environment. Combining the individual needs and personality with the physical elements of the property, and the fiscal parameters, SOI design team brings to life the most prominent feature of your backyard retreat.
The decision to install a pool is only the beginning; choices regarding the primary usage of the pool – is it a “swimming” pool or a lounge pool; will it be adult or kid oriented, or a mixture of both; should the added amenities include a swim-up bar, fire-pits, waterfalls, and slides? – will have a decisive role in the design and construction.
Every pool is constructed following strict specifications that exceed “typical” industry standards. Out innate attention to detail insures that your pool will meet your every need. Using only the finest pool equipment and the best craftsmen in the area, our pools are designed, engineered, and built to give you a lifetime of enjoyment and worry-free ownership. We guarantee it!
LANDSCAPING PLANNING, DESIGN AND INSTALLATION
SOI specializes in all aspects of landscape planning, design, and installation for residential clientele in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. SOI actively works with our clients to assist them in incorporating value-added design strategies that meet their vision within their allotted budget. This includes initial planning efforts, concept design, final plans, and implementation of residential landscapes, hardscapes, and living and entertaining areas.
OUTDOOR LIVING
The effective integration between the built and natural aspects of a landscape is vital to the overall usage, livability, and appearance of the landscape.
Extending the living space and entertaining areas of a home can be accomplished with outdoor kitchens, arbors, decks, patios, fireplaces and fire pits. Hardscapes (i.e. paved areas) can break up areas and help give structure and definition to a landscape while blending with the surrounding architecture and setting.
Hardscapes, such as entryways, retaining walls and other masonry features are essential to achieving an overall balanced landscape design. In addition, hardscapes provide sustainable areas that require less regular maintenance and watering. Whether you are looking for stone edging, retaining walls, fire pits, outdoor patios, decorative concrete or stamped concrete, SOI can provide hardscape stonework for any outdoor project.
WATER FEATURES
Water features can add a unique focal point to your landscape’s design by integrating both sound and movement. Whether it’s a captivating fountain, waterfall, water gardens, or a Koi pond, SOI has the unique capabilities with special attention to aesthetic detail, timelines, and budgetary constraints to make it a reality.
Water features offer and endless possibility to complement grand front entrances and backyard retreats alike. Combining these aqueous elements with other landscape features can enhance the user experience by effectively unify themes, outdoor living spaces, and entertaining areas. For example, the combination a water feature with a fire pit to double the functionality of your backyard gathering spot or the addition of a semi-circular pond at the edge of your patio. The possibilities are only limited to your imagination!
SYNTHETIC TURF
Synthetic turf is becoming more popular each year. Synthetic turf not only beautifies your yard and saves water it actually provides you with a defined return-on-investment! Think about it – over the 15- to 25-year lifespan of the UVL fade-resistant, high-quality turf you select, you no longer incur the cost of routine maintenance, irrigating, or fertilizing; drainage issues are non-existent. These savings alone can easily exceed $2,000 per year!
Some of the benefits to synthetic turf include:
- Very low Maintenance – no weekly mowing or edging; just as occasional “brooming”
- No chemicals – no need for fertilizer or weed control applications
- No regular irrigation – water periodically to leach out trapped water and contaminants; our professional staff will consult with you about your needs and uses to recommend a watering cycle
- Always manicured – perfect color, perfect height with that just-mowed look all the time
- Durable – perfect surface for kids and pets; withstands heavy usage; virtually worry free
- Environmentally friendly – synthetic fibers are made of recycled and recovered post-consumer waste
Synthetic turf is a great alternative for shaded areas, high traffic areas, and entertaining areas. Whether you are looking to replace existing sod, your own private putting green, a lawn the kids can play in without getting muddy or one the dogs can’t ruin, synthetic turf might be your answer.
PUTTING GREENS, SPORTS COURTS, AND PLAY AREAS
Custom backyard putting greens, sports courts, and play areas can provide the perfect balance to the rest and relaxation features of your landscape. SOI can install synthetic turf for Dad’s own putting green or bocce ball court, pour-in-place sport courts for the basketball and tennis enthusiast, and even install a modular or custom play structure for the kids!
When considering one of these features, our professional staff will work with you to determine the best placement, design, and finish-out meeting your specified needs. Whichever sport or recreational hobby, SOI can bring it to your own backyard!
IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE SOLUTIONS
SOI provides complete customized irrigation and drainage systems for new and existing homes. Our Licensed Irrigators and dedicated installation crews provide systems that minimize water usage while maximizing water conservation.
Our licensed irrigators can provide you with the knowledge and tools to sensibly maintain your lawn; we offer rain sensors that turn off your system after rainfall has occurred, and even keep your system turned off until the soils water content evaporates and requires additional watering. Additional, freeze sensors protect against an unwanted watering as the seasons begin to transition but irrigation is still required.
Managing stormwater runoff is vital to the livability and use of your outdoor living areas. SOI offers drainage systems that will fit the layout of your unique landscape and property; these range from French Drains, trench and channel drains, catch basins and grates, and pop-up emitters.
LIGHTING
Landscape lighting can highlight a special feature or provide way-finding. A quality lighting design enhances security and safety by reducing darkened areas and providing for low levels of visibility at otherwise problem areas. Popular lighting options range from pathway lighting (i.e. low lighting), up lighting, down lighting, and lighting of specialty features.
Discriminate lighting of key house and landscape elements can enhance, extend, and even transform the views while extending the living space for the common enjoyment and entertaining well into the night. Prior to installation, it is important to understand the effects of the lighting from indoors and outdoors to mitigate unsightly glare or spillage.
Our lighting experts will seamlessly incorporate landscape lighting into your overall design. We balance design, lighting, functionality and energy usage to create a custom lighting system to fit your landscape. We have in-house lighting experts that can provide design ideas – including temporary evening lighting presentations – continued lighting maintenance services, and replacement of existing landscape lighting systems.
RETAINING STRUCTURES
Whether utilized as a design feature to add depth, dimension, and seating, or serving a purpose such as preserving the natural shape of the property, reinforcing slopes, or mitigating erosion, a retaining wall can enhance or extend the usability of the property.
SOI has the experience and expertise to apply the appropriate product line that meets your specific preferences and design criteria. Retaining wall systems offered include pressure treated wood walls, brick/masonry walls, modular concrete block walls (“cinder blocks”) with or without a veneer, concrete walls, natural rock and stone walls, or a combination of materials to create synergy and tie together themes.
SWIMMING POOLS AND SPAS
Your landscape should reflect your lifestyle, and with many North Texan’s, a swimming pool serves as the focal point to their outdoor living environment. Combining the individual needs and personality with the physical elements of the property, and the fiscal parameters, SOI design team brings to life the most prominent feature of your backyard retreat.
The decision to install a pool is only the beginning; choices regarding the primary usage of the pool – is it a “swimming” pool or a lounge pool; will it be adult or kid oriented, or a mixture of both; should the added amenities include a swim-up bar, fire-pits, waterfalls, and slides? – will have a decisive role in the design and construction.
Every pool is constructed following strict specifications that exceed “typical” industry standards. Out innate attention to detail insures that your pool will meet your every need. Using only the finest pool equipment and the best craftsmen in the area, our pools are designed, engineered, and built to give you a lifetime of enjoyment and worry-free ownership. We guarantee it!