Outdoor Living Services
Nine things we build across Jacksonville and St. Johns County — driveways, patios, pool decks, walls, kitchens, fire, planting, lighting, screens and pergolas. Most of our projects are two or three of them at once.
One project, not three contractors
Most backyards get built in pieces. A paver company lays the patio, someone else comes back months later for the kitchen, and a third crew cuts through the finished work to run wire for lighting. Everyone does their own part correctly and the yard still ends up looking assembled rather than designed — and when something settles, nobody owns it.
We would rather scope the whole thing once. That means one plan covering grade and drainage before anything is laid, one schedule that puts the trades in the right order, one permit package, and one company answering the phone for the entire job.
It also works the other way around. Plenty of the work we do is a single service — a driveway on its own, a pergola over a patio that is already there, a fire pit set into existing hardscape. Start with whichever piece you actually need.
The nine things we build
Every one of these has its own page with what is involved, how long it takes and the questions people actually ask us about it.
Why the order matters more than the list
A combined project is planned back to front. Where the water goes is settled first, because grade and drainage decide the elevations everything else sits at. Then the base and the hardscape — the patio, the deck, the walls and steps that establish the levels. Structures like a pergola or an enclosure need their footings set while that base is still open. Gas, water and electrical runs for a kitchen, a fire feature or lighting go in before the surface closes over them. Planting and lighting finish last, over work that is already done.
None of that is exotic. It is simply the reason we ask what you might want in two years, not only what you want now. Running a sleeve under a patio during the build costs almost nothing; cutting one in afterwards means taking up finished pavers.
Straight answers before you call
Who is accountable
Every project is managed by St. Johns Outdoors from the first visit to the final walkthrough. The design, the permit, the sequence and the punch list stay with us — one schedule, one number to call, and one company answering for the finished result.
What we don't do
We don't build new swimming pools — if one is part of the plan, we build the deck and the yard around it. Landscape design here means a whole-property plan drawn by a certified designer, so if you need a single front flower bed refreshed, we're honestly the wrong call for it.
Military & first responder discount
Military and first responder discounts available.
What happens after you call
Every service on this page runs the same path. A person answers the phone weekdays 9am to 5pm and we get back to emails quickly. We book an on-site estimate with one of our salespeople — in person, always, because you cannot read grade, drainage or an existing base off a satellite photo. Your written quote follows promptly after that visit, with the scope spelled out on it.
Once you approve it, engineering comes first and then the permit goes in — a steady pace in St. Johns County, Clay County and Jacksonville Beach, a little longer in Nassau, and genuinely unpredictable in Duval. Install begins once the permit is in hand. If you are in an HOA community we prepare the submission package; it goes in under your name, and the board's meeting calendar sets the pace from there.
Whatever you're building
Get Your Free Estimate
Tell us what you have in mind — one service or the whole yard — and we'll come out, look at it properly, and put a real number in writing promptly after the visit.