Backyard & Outdoor Living in Beverly Hills

City of Beverly Hills Community Development Department, Building & Safety. Beverly Hills permits independently with its own plan check and design review. Standards for construction hours, staging and street use are strictly enforced, and hillside properties north of Sunset carry additional grading review. We prepare the drawings, make the submittal and handle plan-check corrections ourselves, so you are not the one chasing the city.

Estate properties where finish quality, discretion and a clean jobsite matter as much as the design itself. In practice that means trousdale and Benedict Canyon parcels are hillside builds requiring engineered retaining.

All of it, including Beverly Hills Flats, Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills Post Office, Benedict Canyon. We are based in Los Angeles at Cahuenga Pass, so Beverly Hills is a short run for our crews rather than a job we service from out of the area.

Full backyard transformation in this market generally runs $50,000 to $250,000+. What moves it is how much hardscape is involved, whether a pool or outdoor kitchen is included, grading and retaining, and the level of lighting and planting. We give line-item pricing after seeing the site rather than quoting a number over the phone.

A patio and turf refresh often finishes in three to five weeks. A full transformation with hardscape, an outdoor kitchen, structures and lighting typically runs ten to sixteen weeks, and longer if a pool is part of the same phase.

Pavers cost more up front but flex with ground movement instead of cracking, and individual units can be lifted and replaced. Poured concrete is cheaper initially, but a crack means cutting out and repouring a section that rarely matches. On most Southern California soil we recommend pavers for anything you will look at every day.

Yes, and on most projects we insist on it. Correcting grade and adding proper drainage while the yard is already open is far cheaper than retrofitting it after new hardscape is down.

Yes. Design, permits, hardscape, structures, kitchen, lighting and planting run through one team and one project manager, so nothing gets lost between trades.