Economic Woes Create Opportunity for Do-It-Yourself Projects, Add Property Value
New, cost-effective alternative to professional landscape designs created by Virginia-based Elegance Outback can help property value, too.
eleganceoutback.com - June 16, 2009
Sample set-up from Elegance Outback.
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(PRNewsChannel) / Richmond, Va. / Research shows investing in a professionally designed landscape can add 10% or more to a home’s market value. But in these tough times, many people don’t have the means to pay a professional landscape designer and many do not have the creative talent to develop a design on their own, but an innovative and cost-effective strategy could soon be creating more green thumbs than ever.
Virginia-based Elegance Outback offers a library of landscape designs and garden bed designs which can be purchased online. There are currently more than 45 designs to choose from, with more on the way, providing a great way to create an ‘outdoor room.’
With so many homeowners on a tight budget, the plans are designed to be constructed either at once, or in stages, making it easy to complete the project as budgets allow.
The creator of the new garden concept, Elegance Outback Owner Tish Livanos, has always been an avid gardener in addition to her day job in various executive positions with the international corporate world over the past two decades. She recently decided to make her passion of exterior design and gardening into her full-time job.
Livanos used her self-taught expertise to create a library of fully designed ‘outdoor rooms,’ which can be viewed on her company’s website, www.eleganceoutback.com. Her designs can be purchased online and each plan includes a design layout and plant list recommendations so customers can enjoy a professionally designed landscape at a DIY price.
“I started this project because all homeowners want a nice garden, but few know where to start, which plants to choose and how to combine different plants and fixtures together for an orchestrated look,” says Livanos. “I chose plants that are readily available in most parts of the country and we’ve done all the upfront work so customers not only get a great, easy to grow garden but they get it done with a fraction of the work and at a fraction of the professional cost.”
The plans are easy to follow, even for the novice gardener, and bed dimensions can be adjusted based on the individual homeowner’s space and needs, says Livanos. Included with the plant recommendations is a plant data sheet with guidelines on how to care for each plant.
For more information on the ‘outdoor rooms’ or to see some of the many designs available for purchase, please visit www.eleganceoutback.com.
About Elegance Outback, LLC: Launched in late 2007, the company has completed several major consulting projects addressing environmental and nature related issues to large corporations. Most recently, it has started helping homeowners find a cost-effective way to have a professional garden at a DIY price which helps overall property value and encourages education about horticulture.
Contact:
Tish Livanos
Elegance Outback, LLC
P.O. Box 1890
Midlothian, VA 23113
Telephone: (804) 818-3734
www.eleganceoutback.com
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