Welcome to Landscape Design in a Day!
Landscape Design in a Day is a landscape design process for people with smaller city properties, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) homeowners and gardeners looking for customized landscape designs and trusted installation referral. Landscape Design in a Day provides services to NE, SE, NORTH Portland, Raliegh Hills, Multnomah and SW Portland areas.
We work with you to develop a landscape design that will make your landscape beautiful, entertaining, and easy to maintain and all done in one day. Expect a collaborative process where what you care about is the priority.
Landscape Design in a Day has the design expertise to fit your lifestyle including:
- Pet-friendly gardens
- Design expertise from Modern to NW Natural
- Edibles and raised garden beds
- NW native plants and low water designs
- Outdoor entertaining spaces
- Water features and rain gardens
- No lawn landscape designs
- Low maintenance planting plans
- Colorful and dramatic garden designs
What Our Clients Say
Carol and the Landscape Design in A Day team did a great job with our landscape design.
Carol and the Landscape Design in A Day team did a great job with our landscape design. She is extremely knowledgeable on all things plant… Read more “Carol and the Landscape Design in A Day team did a great job with our landscape design.”
Working with Carol was easy and confidence inspiring.
Working with Carol was easy and confidence inspiring. She listened to my concerns and objectives during our phone interviews and came on our design day… Read more “Working with Carol was easy and confidence inspiring.”
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!
The overall landscape design process experience is wonderful. RuthE is so easy to work with, I felt like I could say anything, that I was… Read more “Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful!”
…a plan that really reflected my desires for the space…
The process was fantastic. It does require work on the part of the homeowner to measure and describe the current landscape, but that’s one of… Read more “…a plan that really reflected my desires for the space…”
Carol was great to work with!
Carol was great to work with! She was so knowledgeable about anything garden-related and was able to make suggestions that specifically met my situation. During… Read more “Carol was great to work with!”
Can’t say enough good things about Landscape Design in a Day!
Carol is a pro! She anticipates what you don’t know to ask, has tons of experience and resources to share, and is both kind and… Read more “Can’t say enough good things about Landscape Design in a Day!”
Carol’s process worked really well for me
Carol’s process worked really well for me. I appreciated the thorough definition of and thoughtful review of requirements before the final drawings were produced. I… Read more “Carol’s process worked really well for me”
Carol did a fantastic job
Carol did a fantastic job designing our very difficult backyard space and worked in just about all our asks. She was easy to work with,… Read more “Carol did a fantastic job”
Excellent
It was so fun working with a pro like Carol. She’s a true artist, but also has so much deep knowledge about plants and nature.… Read more “Excellent”
She is knowledgeable about all aspects of landscape design including the hardscape.
I first met with Carol two years ago. I desperately needed help transforming my backyard. I found Landscape Design in a Day on the web… Read more “She is knowledgeable about all aspects of landscape design including the hardscape.”
Carol and Landscape Design in a Day Rescued Us

Carol and Landscape Design in a Day rescued us as we stressed about trying to put together a cohesive experience from a blank template yard… Read more “Carol and Landscape Design in a Day Rescued Us”
Thank you for your time and expertise, Carol.
Thank you for your time and expertise, Carol. You worked closely to suss out what I really wanted and then came up with a design… Read more “Thank you for your time and expertise, Carol.”
A Testimonial About Our Tiny House

Our experience with LDIAD was great! Our designer Ruthe was professional, competent and creative as she applied our ideas and wish list to our backyard… Read more “A Testimonial About Our Tiny House”
Carol worked with me last week to plan the landscaping for my new house…
I worked with Carol Lindsay and Design-in-a-Day two times while in my last house. It was a large yard and used a variety of low… Read more “Carol worked with me last week to plan the landscaping for my new house…”
We are thrilled with our design.
I [Carol] called Jeff to check in after RuthE and I completed the landscape design for their small corner-lot backyard in SE Portland — a… Read more “We are thrilled with our design.”
The Design in a Day process was a wonderful experience!

I had a general idea of where I wanted my front yard Design to go, but I needed help figuring out where to start and… Read more “The Design in a Day process was a wonderful experience!”
I’m so impressed with Carol’s depth of knowledge…

Collaboration – loved it! I really appreciated how well Carol listened to my preferences and ideas and came up with a design that embraced and… Read more “I’m so impressed with Carol’s depth of knowledge…”
Our new backyard exceeds our expectations and looks beautiful!
We started with a small yard with brown grass and awkward pavers that didn’t work with our space at all. Luckily Carol is very knowledgeable… Read more “Our new backyard exceeds our expectations and looks beautiful!”
Carol is friendly and does high quality work. We highly recommend her.
Our HOA landscaper gave us a referral to Carol, and we are so pleased to have found her. She listened to our thoughts, asked good… Read more “Carol is friendly and does high quality work. We highly recommend her.”
…exactly what we need to move our new garden design forward.

We had a super-nice, personal experience with Carol as we went through the design process. She listened to our needs and quickly had a strong… Read more “…exactly what we need to move our new garden design forward.”
Our experience with Landscape Design in a Day was very friendly, efficient, and fun.
Our experience with Landscape Design in a Day was very friendly, efficient, and fun. Their approach was new to us as we had never done… Read more “Our experience with Landscape Design in a Day was very friendly, efficient, and fun.”
Carol’s plant knowledge shines in her design for my no-lawn front yard.
Carol’s plant knowledge shines in her design for my no-lawn front yard. The foliage and flowers are staged to bloom throughout the growing season. It… Read more “Carol’s plant knowledge shines in her design for my no-lawn front yard.”
It’s a wonderful space and we love spending time in our backyard.

We had a great experience working with Carol to redesign our backyard. When we called Carol, we had two major issues we were trying to… Read more “It’s a wonderful space and we love spending time in our backyard.”
Carol made my yard exactly what I wanted it to be.
Carol made my yard exactly what I wanted it to be. She picked the perfect native plants and flowers against the backdrop of cedars I’m… Read more “Carol made my yard exactly what I wanted it to be.”
I’m pleased with Carol’s landscape design process and totally satisfied with the results.
Carol’s pre-design questionnaire and interviews were key to the success of her draft design during the landscape-design-in-a-day site visit. Her initial landscape design was 95%… Read more “I’m pleased with Carol’s landscape design process and totally satisfied with the results.”
It was very enjoyable and rewarding.
It was very enjoyable and rewarding. I am a perfectionist and obsessed with gardening, so I’m not easy to please when it comes to landscape… Read more “It was very enjoyable and rewarding.”
…incredible design sense and plant recommendations.

I do want to thank you again for your incredible design sense and plant recommendations. We are so happy with our south and front yard… Read more “…incredible design sense and plant recommendations.”
It’s a wonderful space and we love spending time in our backyard.
We had a great experience working with Carol to redesign our backyard. When we called Carol, we had two major issues we were trying to… Read more “It’s a wonderful space and we love spending time in our backyard.”
This was an excellent experience that was well worth the investment!
The collaboration was excellent. The packet helped us probe our desires and constraints as well as to further familiarize ourselves with our space. Hilary was… Read more “This was an excellent experience that was well worth the investment!”
We now spend time every day enjoying the beautiful spaces Carol designed.

We loved working with Carol. She created a beautiful design and final product. She is a great collaborator and listener. She drafted a number a… Read more “We now spend time every day enjoying the beautiful spaces Carol designed.”
I loved working with Carol on planning our design for our backyard.
I loved working with Carol on planning our design for our backyard. I loved the process from start to finish. She was great at leading… Read more “I loved working with Carol on planning our design for our backyard.”
Carol made my dream of beautifying the view come true.
I have a challenging sideyard to work with. It is narrow, and the sun is blocked by the neighbor’s wall most of the time. Because… Read more “Carol made my dream of beautifying the view come true.”
Our yard was a sanctuary thanks to Carol
“Carol understood us and got our style for a NW Natural Landscape Design for our North Portland backyard. The design process–Landscape Design in a Day–is… Read more “Our yard was a sanctuary thanks to Carol”
The new front yard enhances the remodeled entry and we have received many compliments from the neighbors.
Our newly remodeled front porch and entrance looked wonderful but didn’t fit with our old front yard. We hired Carol Lindsay of Landscape Design in… Read more “The new front yard enhances the remodeled entry and we have received many compliments from the neighbors.”
…we ended up with the perfect landscape plan
We absolutely loved working with Carol! She was really great at asking careful questions and listening carefully, so she truly understood our desires. Her expertise… Read more “…we ended up with the perfect landscape plan”
Carol was awesome throughout the process…
Our Beautiful Yards. We looked for a long time for the right fit to redesign the landscapes in the front and back yards of the… Read more “Carol was awesome throughout the process…”
She went above and beyond to search for the plants and ornaments that are just right.
Carol was everything we could ask for. She listened to our needs and prepared a rough draft in a day that she was here (and… Read more “She went above and beyond to search for the plants and ornaments that are just right.”
We loved the collaboration we did with Carol…
We loved the collaboration we did with Carol and could not be happier about the result! She helped us integrate the items important to us… Read more “We loved the collaboration we did with Carol…”
We couldn’t be happier with the collaborative design process Carol facilitated.
We couldn’t be happier with the collaborative design process Carol facilitated. We have 43 Oregon white oak trees on almost an acre. We wanted to… Read more “We couldn’t be happier with the collaborative design process Carol facilitated.”
…a talented and supportive landscape designer in the North Portland area…
I highly recommend Carol Lindsay of Landscape Design in a Day for anyone seeking excellent landscape design services. Three years ago, Carol created the plans… Read more “…a talented and supportive landscape designer in the North Portland area…”





