Peninsula & South Bay · Design–Build
Estate-grade outdoor spaces, finished on time or you get paid.
One accountable team designs and builds driveways, patios, pool decks and full yards across the Peninsula and South Bay, engineered from the base up and backed in writing by our on-time completion guarantee.
CA Lic #1099847
$2M GL · $5M umbrella
On-time guarantee
BBB A+
5.0 · 44 platform listings
CMHA certified
Design-build, one accountable team.
One company designs it, engineers it, permits it and builds it. No handoff between a designer who drew it and a crew who has never seen the plan, and no second contractor to blame when something does not line up.
San MateoHardscape
Paver driveways, patios, pool decks, walkways and engineered retaining walls.
- Interlocking and large-format pavers
- Engineered retaining and seat walls
- Drainage, grading and permeable systems
San CarlosLandscape
Artificial turf, front and back yards, and full design-build transformations.
- Pet turf, putting greens and sport turf
- Drought-tolerant planting and irrigation
- Front-yard and whole-property rebuilds
BelmontOutdoor Living
Kitchens, bars, fire features, water features, pergolas and landscape lighting.
- Built-in kitchens, bars and appliances
- Fire pits, fireplaces and water features
- Pergolas, pavilions and low-voltage lighting
Watch your build in real time.
The day we lock your start date you get a private project portal. Your guaranteed completion date sits at the top, the schedule moves as we work, and every photo, message and change is logged with a timestamp.
One source of truth, not scattered texts and emails. If it is in your portal, it happened, and you can point to it anytime.
Progress photos from the crew on site today.
On site: 4-person crew. Clear, 72°. Setting the aggregate base in lifts and running the drainage line.
What neighbors invested
See real projects near you.
Every pin is a completed Sequoia build, shown as a rounded range near the neighborhood. Click one to see where the money went. Map pins show an approximate neighborhood.
Atherton
Planting, Pavers & Walls
$96K–106KAll-in range
Where the investment went
An on-time completion date, in writing.
Your guaranteed completion date is set at the pre-construction walkthrough, once permits, selections, long-lead items and utility locates are cleared, and written into your agreement. If we finish late for reasons within our control, you receive a schedule credit.
We would rather be measured on finishing when we said. Every build is still backed by a full installation warranty, but the date is the promise we put in writing.
Eligibility. Signed projects at or above the $25,000 minimum.
When the clock starts. Your completion date is set at the pre-construction walkthrough and posted in your portal.
If we run late. For delays within our control, a credit at substantial completion: $1,000 at 8–14 days, $2,000 at 15–21, and 10% of project value at 22+ (one tier, capped at 10%).
Weather, permits and inspections, HOA timing, change orders and supply-chain delays are excusable and pause the clock. Binding terms live in your signed schedule-credit addendum.
Start to sign-off, one team.
Five stages, each with a named owner and a written deliverable. You always know which one you are in.
Project-fit consult
We walk your property, confirm scope and budget fit, and tell you plainly if we are not the right company for the job.
Design and approvals
A degreed designer produces an engineered plan. Permits and HOA review are handled here, not discovered mid-build.
Selections and pre-construction walk
Materials chosen, long-lead items ordered, utility locates cleared. Your start and completion dates are set and written into the agreement.
Build, with your live portal
One crew, one project manager, a 100-point QA checklist, and every buried stage photographed before it is covered.
Walkthrough and sign-off
We finish on the promised date and walk every detail with you before the final invoice.
Our reputation lives in public.
recommendations across
six platforms
5.0 on Google, Houzz and Angi. 4.8 on Yelp, where we are not allowed to ask. Read every one, unedited, on the platform itself.
Let's plan your project.
Tell us the space and the scope. We will walk your property, set a real date in writing, and show you exactly how it gets built. Project minimum $25,000.
The finish is the easy part. We compete on what you never see.
Anyone can lay pavers. Estate driveways and terraces fail at the base, the drainage and the details that get covered before you look at them. This is the assembly we build, drawn to scale, every layer engineered to the load it carries. Hover or tap any layer.
Interlocking & large-format pavers
The wear course: interlocking concrete units or large-format porcelain, laid to pattern.
Individually replaceable, so a repair is one paver, never the whole surface.
Bedding layer
A thin, screeded setting bed of bedding sand, leveled to a consistent depth before the pavers are set.
Sets every unit to a true, level plane with no rocking or voids.
Aggregate base, compacted in lifts
Class II road base, placed and plate-compacted in 2-inch lifts, never dumped in one pass.
The structural layer that carries the load and spreads it to the soil. Depth is set by use: 4 in for pedestrian, 6 in for vehicular, 8 in for an RV pad. Permeable systems vary with site conditions and scope.
Drainage & conduit sleeves
Drain lines and empty conduit sleeves, run before the base is closed up. Solid pipe moves surface water off a standard install; perforated pipe is used for permeable paving and for french drains behind retaining walls.
Water gets a planned way out, and the empty sleeves let you add low-voltage lighting or power later without cutting the surface.
Geotextile separation
A woven geotextile membrane laid between the aggregate base and the native soil. Specified by soil condition, not used on every job.
On clay or native soils that tend to migrate up into the base, it keeps the two from mixing, which is what stops a base from pumping, settling and telegraphing undulations to the surface years later. On clean, stable subgrades it is not always required.
Proof-rolled subgrade
Native soil cut to grade, moisture-conditioned and proof-rolled to a target compaction.
Everything above rests on this. Soft spots are found and corrected before a single stone goes down.
Hover or tap any layer to see what it does.
Ask any contractor how they document base prep and compaction. A company that works this way will have the photos ready. A company that does not will change the subject.
Real projects, and what each one actually cost.
Every figure below comes from a signed contract on a finished build, rounded and anonymized to the town. Open any project to see the full itemized breakdown, line by line, including the parts that went wrong and what fixing them cost.
What homeowners ask before they call.
How much does a backyard or landscape project cost on the Peninsula?
Across the completed Sequoia projects published on this site, signed contracts run from about $50,000 to $431,000, with a median near $123,750. A single-zone backyard rebuild has run $85,000 to $180,000. A terraced site needing engineered retaining walls has run $180,000 to $275,000. Every figure on our project pages comes from a signed contract on a finished build, itemized line by line, so you can see exactly where the money went rather than a marketing range.
What is the project minimum?
$25,000. Below that a design-build process with a dedicated project manager, a written schedule and documented subsurface work costs more to run than the project can carry, and you would be better served by a specialist trade contractor.
What does the on-time completion guarantee actually mean?
Your commencement and completion dates are set at the pre-construction walk, once permits, selections and utility locates have cleared, and both are written into your agreement. If we miss the agreed completion window on a qualifying contract, you receive schedule credits under the published terms. It is a written term of the contract, not a promise made in a sales meeting.
Which cities do you build in?
San Mateo and Santa Clara counties: San Mateo, Burlingame, Hillsborough, Millbrae, San Bruno, Belmont, San Carlos, Redwood City, Emerald Hills, Woodside, Atherton, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Loyola, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Campbell, Santa Clara, San Jose and Cambrian Park.
What licenses and insurance should I be checking?
Ask any contractor for their CSLB number and the classifications it covers for your scope. Sequoia holds license #1099847 with Class A general engineering, C-27 landscaping, C-8 concrete, D-06 concrete-related services and D-12 synthetic products. On insurance, ask for a current certificate showing general liability, workers’ compensation, commercial auto, umbrella and professional errors and omissions. Ours are $1M/$2M general liability, a $5M umbrella, $1M auto and $1M E&O.
How long does a project take?
Design and approvals typically run four to ten weeks depending on whether permits or HOA review are involved. Construction is set as a fixed number of working days at the pre-construction walk and written into the agreement. A single-zone backyard has run about 30 active build days; a terraced site with engineered walls runs considerably longer.
Do you document the work that gets buried?
Yes, and it is the part worth asking every contractor about. Base preparation, compaction, drainage, utilities, edge restraints and wall footings are all photographed and logged before they are covered, and that record goes into your project portal. Once pavers or concrete are down, no inspection can tell you whether the base underneath was built correctly.