DabneyCollins specializes in the design and installation of luxury concrete hardscapes for residential properties throughout Greenville and the Upstate.
With over 25 years of mastery, DabneyCollins’ concrete contractors have made an art form of bespoke concrete design and installation. From concrete pavers to precision-poured architectural slabs, sculptural hardscapes, and custom finishes, our concrete work is engineered for longevity, tailored for beauty, and executed with a level of detail that defines luxury. Start the conversation with our team as we listen to your vision for extraordinary outdoor spaces, supported by uncompromising concrete craftsmanship. We partner with homeowners to create enduring landscapes that stand the test of time.
DabneyCollins is an established concrete company serving the Southeast, collaborating with municipalities, institutions, developers, and property owners. Our services range from retaining walls and parking lot paving to concrete demolition, construction, resurfacing, foundations, slabs, sidewalks, stairways, and full-service hardscaping. As a premier landscape design-build firm with decades of expertise in concrete installation, we specialize in every detail—from site preparation and formwork to reinforcement, pouring, finishing, curing, and sealing. Our dedicated team of designers, landscape architects, estimators, project managers, craftsmen, and concrete contractors seamlessly work together to enhance outdoor spaces through exceptional concrete work that delivers long-term strength, style, and functionality.
DabneyCollins plans and builds refined hardscape environments with thoughtful concrete design and installation in Greenville and across the Upstate. Our concrete contractors bring structure, beauty, and lasting function to every landscape design. From concrete driveways, walkways, patios, pool surrounds, steps, and retaining walls to complete outdoor living spaces, our team approaches every surface as part of a larger residential master plan. With an architect’s eye for proportion, circulation, drainage, and material harmony, we create concrete hardscapes that feel intentional, enduring, and beautifully integrated with the home. Begin the collaborative conversation today and discover how custom concrete design can enhance the way you arrive, gather, move, and live outdoors.
Concrete patios and outdoor living spaces create a durable, elegant foundation for life outside the home. One lead designer spearheads your project, while our architect, estimator, and finishing designer stay involved throughout the design process. From custom concrete patios, architectural walkways, pool surrounds, steps, retaining walls, and integrated hardscape surfaces to seating areas, lighting, shade, planting, fire or water features, and graceful circulation, we design and install outdoor living spaces in Greenville that balance beauty, performance, and lasting connection to the landscape.
DabneyCollins designs and installs concrete retaining walls that bring structure, stability, and architectural beauty to outdoor spaces across Greenville and the Upstate. With more than 25 years of experience, our team creates durable wall systems for grade changes, erosion control, terracing, garden definition, and integrated outdoor living environments. From poured concrete retaining walls and modern hardscape transitions to walls that support patios, driveways, walkways, pool areas, and planting beds, we approach every detail with an understanding of engineering, drainage, proportion, and long-term performance. Start the conversation with our team as we design concrete retaining walls that feel purposeful, well-crafted, and seamlessly connected to the larger landscape vision.
Custom water features bring movement, sound, and focus to outdoor spaces. DabneyCollins designs and installs fountains, reflecting pools, garden water features, and integrated concrete or stone elements. From the first design conversation through construction, our team considers proportion, placement, circulation, concrete detailing, materials, and long-term performance to create water features in Greenville that feel timeless, calming, and beautifully intentional.
Finishes and textures give concrete design its depth, character, and connection to the surrounding landscape. DabneyCollins chooses concrete finishes like smooth surfaces, exposed aggregate, and detailed edges that match the home’s design and the garden’s flow. Every texture is considered for beauty, durability, traction, and long-term performance in Greenville’s outdoor environments.
Concrete design is the thoughtful planning of concrete elements for both beauty and performance. In landscape design, this means considering the structure, strength, mix, finish, texture, drainage, and placement of concrete so patios, walkways, driveways, retaining walls, pool surrounds, and outdoor living spaces feel intentional and lasting. When designed well, concrete becomes more than a practical surface. It becomes an architectural part of the landscape.
With more than 25 years of landscape and hardscape expertise in the Upstate, DabneyCollins brings an architect’s eye and a craftsman’s care to concrete design and installation. Our team plans and builds concrete patios, walkways, driveways, retaining walls, pool surrounds, and outdoor living spaces that are beautiful, durable, and thoughtfully connected to the larger landscape. From the first design conversation through installation, we focus on proportion, drainage, finish, texture, and long-term performance so every concrete element feels intentional, refined, and built to last.
Our concrete services include patios, walkways, driveways, pool surrounds, steps, retaining walls, garden walls, courtyards, terraces, and integrated hardscape features. From modern slab layouts and architectural concrete surfaces to finishes, textures, drainage, grading, and planting integration, our team designs every concrete element to feel purposeful, durable, and beautiful.
DabneyCollins is a landscape design and construction firm whose mission is to provide the best landscape design-build experience in the Southeast. From entrance development and driveway layout to site circulation, hardscaping, landscaping, luxury gardens, outdoor lighting, custom water features, and more, our team of architects and designers creates the finest luxury outdoor spaces in Greenville and the Upstate. Start today by calling us.
DabneyCollins serves Greenville, SC, and our service area extends throughout the Southeast. Some of our popular service areas are located within the Upstate, including Anderson, Clemson, Easley, Fountain Inn, Greenville, Greenwood, Greer, Lake Hartwell, Lake Keowee, Laurens, Mauldin, Pendleton, Piedmont, Pickens, Seneca, Simponsville, Travelers Rest, and Williamston. Contact us for all service area inquiries!
Dabney Peeples’ gardens range from highly traditional to playful and contemporary. The three driving forces of his work are the requirements of the architecture, cues from the land, and the unique personalities of every client. These tenets have influenced hundreds of gardens over the past four decades, each one as unique as the place and people who inspired it. He firmly believes that to successfully practice design over time, one must “never quit learning, always stay completely aware of your surroundings and listen, listen, listen.” Dabney eschews trends in the garden, opting instead for timeless solutions guided by the principles of design, proposing that “if a design is good now, it will be good forever.” He finds inspiration both in classical architecture and contemporary masters, because a garden should reference the past while looking to the future.
Dabney has built his practice on the belief that gardens are first and foremost personal. Relationships are essential to the successful creation of every garden. He extolls the importance of a strong partnership, saying, “No matter how extensive or how detailed a set of drawings are, there is absolutely no substitute for trust between client, designer, and contractor.”
Over the course of 20 years, Kenny Collins has built a company from two men with a truck and a couple of shovels into a thriving group of multiple installation crews with specialist craftsmen. His philosophy has always been to put people first, both internally and in client relationships. Kenny also places great emphasis on structural and horticultural integrity, encouraging continuing education, experimentation, and research to augment the collective team experience. “We are continuously improving how we do things, and we never sacrifice our own integrity by taking a shortcut.” He believes that every element contributes to the value of the garden, from the effectiveness of the drainage and water management, to concert-quality outdoor sound and thoughtful landscape lighting. “Community in life is paramount and the gardens that we create cultivate this on another level. They have the ability to promote community in a unique way.” The work at DabneyCollins is ultimately all about people and valuing relationships; when the relationships are solid, everything else will follow. “It does take a team and I love ours. So much more is possible when we work together.”
