What we build
One company designs it, builds it, and keeps it looking right.
Archterra runs both sides of the work under one roof: a design and construction division and a landscape management division that maintains what it builds. Our own crews handle every job, start to finish. No subcontractors, so the people who cut the grade are the same people who come back to trim it.
That is the practical reason to hand a property to one company rather than a designer, a paver crew and a maintenance outfit working from three different plans. Read the questions we get asked most on the FAQ page, or more on the company on the about page.
The eight service areas
Design and build
Landscape Design & Installation
The full plan before anything is dug: grading, drainage, beds, plantings, sod, hydroseeding and synthetic turf, drawn to work as one system rather than assembled piece by piece.
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Hardscape
Paver & Hardscaping
Driveways, patios, pool surrounds and the walkways between them, set on a base built to hold its line through a wet Puyallup winter instead of heaving by spring.
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Structure
Retaining & Rock Walls
Block walls, rock walls and boulder rockery that hold a cut slope and turn it into level, usable ground, engineered for the clay and the winter wet underneath it.
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Water
Water Features
Waterfalls, ponds, basalt columns and rock bubblers, plumbed and set into real rockwork so the feature reads as ground that was always there, not a kit dropped on top of it.
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Light
Outdoor LED Lighting
Path, step and facade lighting laid out so the walls, the plantings and the way to the door still work after dark, wired in as part of the build rather than bolted on after.
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Water supply
Irrigation Installation & Repair
Zoned irrigation, backflow testing, spring start-up and winterization. It rains here, and the summer still dries a lawn out without a watering schedule behind it.
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Living space
Outdoor Living
Fire pits and fireplaces, outdoor kitchens, decks, fencing and seating built to be used, not just photographed, on a lakefront patio or a backyard the same as it goes anywhere else.
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Grounds
Landscape Maintenance
Mowing, bed care, seasonal cleanups and irrigation upkeep from the crews who already know the property, for residential, multifamily and commercial grounds year-round.
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The full list, grouped the way the work actually breaks down.
The eight pages above cover the shape of the work. Underneath each one is a longer list of specific jobs we take on every season, grouped here by the five families they fall under.
Design & Build
The living, growing side of a new build.
- Sod installation and hydroseeding
- Synthetic turf
- Seasonal grading
Paver & Hardscaping
The non-living elements that define a space.
- Driveways
- Patios, including covered patios
- Pool pavers
- Paver maintenance
- Walkways
- Block walls
- Rock walls
Outdoor Living
What a finished property actually gets used for.
- Fire pits and fireplaces, gas and wood
- Outdoor kitchens
- Decks, arbors and trellises
- Fencing: cedar, chain link, wrought iron, split rail
- Outdoor seating
- Raised garden beds
Water Features
Plumbed into the rockwork, not bolted on top of it.
- Basalt bubblers
- Ponds
- Rock bubblers
- Waterfalls
Maintenance
The upkeep that keeps a build looking like day one.
- Seasonal yard cleanup
- Enhancements
Not sure which of these your yard needs? Start with a walk of the property.
A designer looks at the grade, the soil and the light, and tells you what it actually needs before you pick a service off this page. Licensed and fully insured. No obligation.