Swanscapes Landscaping | Kalispell, MT — Hardscaping, Retaining Walls, Lighting

Retaining wall on a sloped Kalispell lot

BEFORE

Shot list: the raw slope from the patio door, wide, before excavation. One phone photo.

AFTER

Shot list: the same angle, wall built and backfilled, grass in. Same time of day if you can.

Block or boulder, engineered where the height needs it, drained behind and backfilled with clean rock so a Flathead freeze‑thaw has nowhere to push.

BEFORE

Shot list: the bare or tired back yard, wide enough to show the house edge for scale.

AFTER

Shot list: finished patio with furniture on it. Furniture matters — empty patios read as unfinished.

Compacted structural base sized to the frost depth first. It is the part nobody photographs and the only reason the patio is still flat in ten years.

BEFORE

Shot list: the same walkway or facade in flat daylight.

AFTER

Shot list: the money shot — 20 minutes after sunset, lights on, sky still blue. This is the one that sells lighting.

Low‑voltage path, step, tree and facade lighting on a timer, so the yard is still usable in October when it is dark at six.

BEFORE

Shot list: the new-construction dirt lot, or the overgrown existing yard.

AFTER

Shot list: one season later, once the plantings have filled in. Worth going back for.

Design, grade, irrigation, beds, sod or seed and the hardscape that ties it together — sequenced in the right order so nothing gets dug up twice.

Lawn MaintenanceMowing, edging, fertilising, spring and fall clean‑up.
HardscapingPaver patios, walkways, steps, fire features.
Retaining WallsBlock and boulder, drained and built to hold.
Outdoor LightingLow‑voltage path, step, tree and facade lighting.
Landscape DesignA plan before a shovel, priced in phases if you want it that way.
IrrigationInstall, repair, start‑up and fall blow‑out.

Kalispell · Evergreen · Whitefish · Columbia Falls · Lakeside · Somers · Bigfork · Polson

Tell us the lot and the problem in two lines. We will tell you straight away whether it is a this‑season job or one to schedule for spring.