Taylor Made Landscape Construction

James and Cheryl are a great team. They understand HOA and city restrictions and have a real flair for layout. We have a small yard, only about 350 square feet, and they finished, demo, grading, sprinklers, fill, plants, DG, pebble bed, and clean up in 2 days. They had an anniversary weekend scheduled — so that might have been a big motivator. Anyway, we could not be happier with their work. Great communication and follow through.

Wow! Great work. Super nice and our new concrete is so beautiful. Would use them again if we ever needed more work done.

Professional, timely and on budget! The finished product was superior in every way.
James Taylor took a vague idea and made it into something beautiful! He understood exactly what I was looking for and the finished product was even better than I had envisioned. He had several suggestions on how to improve the design, all of them great ideas. He handled our modification requests in stride. As snafus arose (as they will in any big project and admittedly sometimes our fault), he maintained his professional, «let’s find the solution» attitude. I’m very happy we hired him.

Just finished completing the hard scape in our front yard as well as building a barbecue with additional hard scape in the backyard. Project took about 3 weeks and he was very professional and easy to work with throughout. I had minor changes along the way that never seemed to rattle him. Pricing was fare and quality is good! Can’t wait until the weather heats up to start enjoying!!!

I’m really surprised at the negative reviews. Cheryl and James were creative and responsive in the design and construction of our backyard lanscaping. Their workers arrived on time every time, did their job well, and cleaned up at the end of each day. The finished product was beautiful and exceeded our expectations which were high. After watching how much work went into the project, we really felt the cost was very reasonable.

James and Cheryl are not what I would call very approachable people. Re-​enactment of a phone conversation…“ring ring… Hi Cheryl! How are you today?” «Fine»…crickets.chirp! Most professional people that I get on the phone reply back with «I’m doing well thanks and you?» There’s just this disconnect where she doesn’t understand how to make people feel comfortable or she just doesn’t care for small chat and wants to get right to the point. Either way… it comes off a bit rude. During the process, it seems as though she kind of wants to do her own thing. For example, some of the items that I thought would be in my design, were not there when the job was completed. I was disappointed because I’m paying them alot of money.
If you can’t provide that item, then don’t list it in your design or at least call me to tell me this and ask what I would prefer instead. Don’t provide me with a design that I think I’m getting, do something different and then leave me to be surprised that something wasn’t there that I thought would be. And their rock selections sucks! Seriously… only two choices? I don’t understand that. I can google landscaping pebbles and come up with 5 – 10 different options. I understand that it depends on availability, but expand your resources then!
There seems to be a hesitation to communicate or when you do, they act like they’re being inconvenienced, which again, puts one ill at ease. They’re are fast… I will give them that, but the quality isn’t as good as I see from other landscaping companies. Because they are so rushed, they aren’t taking the time to ask the question «Does this look good in this particular spot?» They lay all the plants/​flowers out in the pots where they plan on planting them, but they aren’t laid out to the best aesthetics. I had one spot that was bare from a plant that died. And instead of planting a new one in that same spot, they positioned it further away/​close to another plant. That doesn’t make sense! I still have a bare spot that now needs another plant. This seems to carry over alot in what they do. When completed, you’ll look at the work they did and say «this plant could be back 5″ and that plant could be moved up another foot so that overall, the landscaping has a better feel to it.» It’s all about the details, which seems to be lacking because again, they are always rushed.
One more thing… don’t let your workers hock loogies in my yard and on my concrete and don’t smoke on the job. I don’t want to smell your nasty cigarettes

Really poor quality work. James seems to have this «irritable» demeanor to intimidate. Poor design. Built a waterfall that spills out to our yard. It emptied the system with no water damaging the pump over time. Now the pump does not run anymore but they refused to help. We had a system that never worked properly in a span of a year or so. Constantly emptying out despite our religious maintenance and upkeep. We are now forced to take this level to a higher entity. Do not waste your money with this company.