Highlighting the unique identity of your home

Home and garden

Every great community consists of neighborhoods and homes with history, context, and character.

Your home and landscape should be beautiful, functional, and an expression of your identity. It should facilitate your lifestyle and provide a place of respite and refuge. Your front yard has the potential to foster neighborhood pride and facilitate a strong sense of community.

Design a landscape with history, context, and character

Landscape and Architectural Services

At Io LandArch, we specialize in the following types of residential design projects.

Please choose the project type below that most closely matches your project to read more.

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Landscape Services

Do you want to go beyond traditional landscaping to create outdoor living spaces for your home that express your personal identity and facilitate your lifestyle? Our Home & Garden landscape architecture services include hardscaping (patios, pathways, etc.), decks, pools, landscape structures, outdoor kitchens, and recreational/play spaces, as well as planting and irrigation.

Do you dream of a landscape that compliments the unique history and style of your historic home? From preservation of historic site features and period appropriate plantings to the sensitive integration of contemporary additions such as pools and patios, we specialize in gardens and landscapes for historic homes.

Whether you are installing a new landscape or converting an existing yard to xeriscape, our planting design services focus on the design of plants and irrigation systems to meet your water-wise and maintenance goals.

Architectural Services

Do you want to create a great first impression of your home, conveying your personality and style while increasing its value? Our curb appeal design services incorporate landscape, hardscape, as well as the architecture of your home’s facade to create an integrated design for great first impressions.

Do you want to add a detached garage, workshop, accessory dwelling unit or other small scale new structure to your site? Our sister company, Storied Design + Build, plans and designs accessory buildings which complement your home, optimize the site, and meet municipal zoning requirements.

Do you have a historic home that you want to document, preserve, restore, or renovate? Together with our sister company, Storied Design + Build, our team of designers can help you with everything from historic research and documentation to specific design and treatment strategies to preserve the historic character of your home while also adapting it to fit your lifestyle.

Our Design Process

“One does not simply walk into Mordor.”

— Boromir, Lord of the Rings

Embarking on a major construction or renovation project can feel like an exciting adventure, filled with opportunity, but also potential pitfalls and challenges. Our “Design Quest” graphic below guides you through the intricacies of planning, design, communication, and construction. All along, the goal is to reach the pinnacle of success for your project.

What's Next?

Find out more about our process, how to work with us, and what the next steps are.

What Clients are Saying...

It was such a great pleasure working with Shalae and Io LandArch on not only one but two Extreme Makeover: Home Edition builds. She was able to listen, and hear, our needs as the client, quickly turn around a clear, cohesive plan, and execute that plan and vision during the install of the landscape. The final landscaping product truly complemented the architecture of the house and successfully blended traditional garden motifs with contemporary styling and modern amenities.
Andy Monaco
A big thank you to you and your team. Our yard is exploding with plant growth, all the grasses and sages are so happy. Zack, who wanted to sell the house before because he hated the maintenance now loves sitting in his little private grass zone and watching the bees. This yard is already bringing us so much happiness.
Lauren Weiss
Io LandArch custom-designed my solar-carport. They even got approval from the historic landmark commission where I live (which would have been a headache to do on my own). It turned out beautifully. It's as much a work of art as it is the carport, and it fit my budget, I'm very happy with the results and highly recommend them.
Rebecca Sato
Thanks for helping me shape our wild property! We’ve got 150 native, blooming plants going in soon, courtesy of the Utah Dept. of Agriculture’s Pollinator Garden Grant!
Cory Anderson
Io LandArch worked with me over the course of a winter to develop the ideas I had for my yard and the vision I had for living in it. They added artistic and historical elements that are appropriate for the style and time period of my house. I appreciate their monitoring of the installation process so that the end product was as successful as the exciting plans suggested it would be. I am really happy with the results!
Amelia Jones