Landscape design-build studio · Yonkers, NY
some stone, some plants, and a drawing first.
Arborith draws planting plans, hardscape layouts and 3D renderings of your actual backyard — then our crew builds it. You’re billed per project, one finished milestone at a time.
- Planting plans
- Bluestone terraces
- 3D site renderings
- Dry-laid fieldstone walls
- Native meadow conversions
- Grading & drainage
- Cedar pergolas
- Permeable paver walks
- Low-voltage lighting
- Shade gardens under old oaks
- Pool surrounds
Sheet A · plan views
Yards we could draw in our sleep
Yonkers backyards come in a handful of recurring shapes — the narrow rowhouse strip, the slope out back, the corner lot everyone walks past. Here’s how we usually draw them, with honest build ranges. Scopes, not a highlight reel.
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25 × 60 ft · flat, fenced
Rowhouse strip
A bluestone terrace off the back door, two raised cedar beds for the herbs you’ll actually cook with, and a clipped hornbeam screen that turns the neighbors into a rumor.
Typical build$26k–$41k
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40 × 90 ft · 12% grade
The steep one
Two dry-laid fieldstone walls turn one useless bank into three flat rooms: a lawn you can mow, a dining terrace, and a native meadow on the slope that never needs a mower again.
Typical build$48k–$86k
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50 × 100 ft · two street faces
Corner lot
Layered screening along both sidewalks, a curving permeable-paver walk, and drifts of aster, little bluestem and amsonia — so the front yard reads well from every car stopped at the light.
Typical build$19k–$34k
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Existing 16 × 32 ft pool
Pool redo
Porcelain-paver coping that stays cool underfoot, a cedar pergola for the shade everyone fights over, and grasses that soften the fence without dropping leaves in the water.
Typical build$57k–$112k
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One big tree, very little sun
Under the oak
Woodland sedges and ferns where the lawn gave up years ago, a pea-gravel dining circle that keeps the roots breathing, and warm low-voltage lights in the canopy for long September nights.
Typical build$14k–$27k
Price a yard like this
Build ranges cover installation only and move with lot access, soil, and how much stone you fall in love with. Design milestones are priced separately, below.
Sheet B · the whole job
Services, in one breath
we walk your yard with a measuring wheel and a soil probe. we draw where every plant goes, and why. we lay out the stone to the inch. we render it in 3d so you can stand in it before anyone digs. then our crew builds exactly that — and you’re invoiced only when each part is finished.
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B1 · paper
Planting plans
Species, sizes, spacing and a bloom calendar, drawn to scale on a sheet you could hand to any nursery on a Saturday.
From $1,350Most lots under ⅛ acre
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B2 · paper
Hardscape layouts
Patios, walls, steps and drainage, fully dimensioned with materials called out — bluestone, fieldstone, porcelain, permeable pavers.
From $2,180Includes grading & drainage notes
Lay out the stone -
B3 · screen
3D renderings
Four photoreal views of your actual lot, one of them at dusk with the lighting on. One round of revisions is included.
$890Extra views $165 each
Render my yard -
B4 · dirt
Design-build installs
Our crew, your drawings: grading, drainage, hardscape, planting and lighting, built to the same set we drew.
Quoted per projectMost builds land $18k–$110k
Get a build quote
Sheet C · how billing works
Milestones, then invoices
Every project runs along the same five nodes, left to right. Each node has a fixed price or a written quote, and nothing gets billed until that node is finished and in your hands.
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Site walk
$385
Ninety minutes on your lot with a tape, a level and a soil probe.
- Measured survey
- Sun, wind & drainage notes
- Photo log of every corner
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Planting plan
$1,350
The green layer, worked out plant by plant for your soil and light.
- Scaled planting plan
- Plant schedule with counts
- Twelve-month bloom calendar
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3D render
$890
See it from your kitchen window before a single shovel shows up.
- Four views, one at dusk
- One revision round
- Files to share with the family chat
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Hardscape set
$2,180
The construction drawings a crew can build from without guessing.
- Dimensioned layout
- Material specs & quantities
- Written build quote attached
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The build
Quoted at node 04
Our crew installs the set. Invoiced in thirds, each after a walkthrough.
- ⅓ after grading & drainage
- ⅓ after hardscape
- ⅓ after the planting walkthrough
Nodes 01 → 04 · $4,805 total. Walk away with a full drawing set and build it with whoever you like.
Nodes 01 → 05. Same drawings, our crew, build paid in three walkthrough-checked thirds.
Whatever we’ve finished is yours to keep — plans, renders, survey and all.
Sheet D · your turn
Send us the yard
A few lines is plenty: rough size, what’s out there now, what you wish was. We reply from quotes@arborith.com with a site-walk slot and what node 01 looks like for your lot. Photos welcome in the reply.
Sheet E · the studio
Find us on Bronx River Rd
Drop by during studio hours to talk through a plan over the drafting table, or grab an evening slot if your weekdays are already spoken for.
687 bronx river rd, yonkers, NY 10704- Mon–Fri
- 8am–5pm
- Evenings
- By appointment
- Weekends
- Site walks only, booked ahead
Sheet F · reach the studio
Numbers worth saving
- Call (718) 601-3298 The studio line — weekdays, 8 to 5.
- Write quotes@arborith.com Surveys, photos, that Pinterest board you’re slightly embarrassed by.
- Hours 8–5 Mon–Fri 8am–5pm · evenings by appointment.
- Base 10704 687 bronx river rd, yonkers, NY 10704.