About
Yardscape Guide exists because most DIY content hides two things: what projects actually cost, and what actually went wrong.
Search any outdoor project and you’ll find beautiful results with vague budgets that quietly exclude the tools, the fasteners, the finish, and the second trip to the store. We publish the opposite.
Every project on this site is built by us first, photographed as it actually happened, and shipped with an itemized price list of what we truly paid — including the fix costs when something went sideways.
Our three rules: real prices, dated. Mistakes stay in. Durability check-ins at 6 and 18 months.