Outdoor Living - Luxury Pool - Landscape Design and Consultations
for the Greater Charlotte and Surrounding Areas
A beautiful outdoor space starts with a plan that works for your property, your priorities, and your budget.
I’m Eric Zackaroff, The Landscape Design Guy.
I bring 30 years of design and construction experience to outdoor living, poolside spaces, and landscapes across the Charlotte region.
Whether you plan to hire an installer, tackle part of the project yourself, or build in stages, I’ll help you make the key decisions before construction begins because.....
"Failure to plan is planning to fail."
Outdoor Living Design
Outdoor Living Design in the Charlotte Area
A good outdoor living space feels like a natural extension of your home. It gives people a comfortable place to gather while making the most of your yard’s layout, views, shade, and privacy. I design site-specific spaces that connect the patio, planting, structures, and features into one workable plan.
Explore the Featured Projects in my portfolio to see how patios, pergolas, outdoor kitchens, planting, and poolside spaces come together. For details about consultations, design fees, drawings, and installation options, see my design FAQs.
Plan the whole space before you build
A patio alone does not solve every design question. We’ll look at how people move between the house and yard, where furniture fits, what happens after dark, and how the space works in different seasons. I also consider drainage, grade changes, utilities, and construction sequence so the plan can support a useful installation quote.
Features I can help plan
Patios, terraces, outdoor kitchens, fire features, pergolas, covered areas, privacy screening, planting, lighting concepts, and connections to a pool or lawn. We’ll identify which features matter most and discuss phasing if that makes sense for your budget.
Let’s talk through your ideas
The $75 Design Discovery takes about an hour and is credited toward your design fee if you hire me.
Tell me your location, what you want to change, and
whether you have a survey or a rough installation budget.