Elegant outdoor living in the Upstate with stunning patios, pools, pathways, fire places, outdoor lighting, and landscapes.
Providing the best hardscape designers in the Southeast, DabneyCollins plans and installs extraordinary hardscaping, including patios, porches, decks, outdoor kitchens, gazebos, retaining walls, driveways, pathways, swimming pools, and outdoor lighting, to name a few. Enjoy the beauty, magnanimity, and safety of your residence and experience award-winning outdoor living. Renowned for our wide variety of traditional hardscapes in Greenville and the Upstate, our team listens to your dreams and implements residential master planning with an architect’s expertise. Enhance the boundaries of your home with inviting outdoor spaces and start the collaborative conversation today.
It is our greatest joy to dream with each client and then bring that dream to life together, creating outdoor living that expands your vision for your property.
DabneyCollins delights commercial clients with timeless outdoor transformations. For over two decades, we’ve worked with property owners, stakeholders, and contractors to design, build, and install commercial landscapes from conception to completion. Our commercial hardscape design-build projects deliver luxury craftsmanship and exceptional client services. Outdoor dining, corporate courtyards and campuses, pathways, entryways and signage monuments, parking lots, retaining walls, rooftop gardens and terraces, hotel pools, fire pits and outdoor lounges, water features, pedestrian walkways, and landscape redesigns are just some of the projects we execute with precision and excellence.
With more than 25 years of residential and commercial experience, our award-winning team of designers, architects, hardscapers, and landscapers work seamlessly to build retaining walls that prevent erosion and landslides, stabilize soil, level slopes, and engineer drainage systems to manage water runoff. Transform steep, unusable land into flat and functional areas for patios, gardens, driveways, parking lots, and more. Maximize uneven terrain with multi-level outdoor spaces that add structure, depth, and visual appeal to any landscape. DabneyCollins combines faithful attention to architectural and environmental influences with the unique needs of our clients to imagine and install durable retaining walls that create usable space for exquisite hardscapes with functional longevity.
Custom outdoor kitchen design is one of the centerpieces of luxurious outdoor living in the Upstate. We begin the design phase by listening to your vision. Conversations continue onsite to discover the unique opportunities for your hardscape project. One lead designer spearheads your project, and our architect, estimator, and finishing designer stay involved throughout the design process.
Outdoor kitchen ideas are limitless, and we specialize in creativity, originality, and adaptation. Functional layout, high-quality weatherproof materials, integrated appliances, ample counter space, strategic shelter and shade, lighting, seating and dining areas, water and fire features, storage solutions, and personalization are just a handful of the essential elements for innovative outdoor kitchens in Greenville and surrounding areas. As the design goes through several revisions, our focus on value engineering and specific timelines guarantees your budget and schedule are honored.
Modern luxury swimming pool design creates opportunity for simple, immediate connection. An event or gathering of friends echoing across the water, a child’s first swim without floaties, or a quiet morning breakfast by the poolside all help us stay rooted in the present moment. It is these ordinary occasions that our clients wish to create, and it is our greatest joy to dream with you, then design and install refreshing aquatic waterscapes and hardscapes in Greenville, SC.
Custom lighting systems complete the illumination, security, and beauty of any pool or property, providing visibility and enjoyment into the night. As graduates and members of the International Landscape Lighting Institute, our outdoor lighting designers are second-to-none and create artistic, sympathetic brilliance for your architecture and grounds. Greenville outdoor lighting highlights walkways and architectural features and brightens the night with an inviting ambiance.
Outdoor sound systems help transform residential and commercial hardscapes into gathering centers for unforgettable moments. Subtle soundscapes invite guests to relax, connect, and enjoy the beauty of creation. By seamlessly integrating high-quality, weather-resistant outdoor audio speakers, your pathways, pool areas, patios, and fire pits are surrounded with perfect sound. Make every outdoor experience extraordinary with our robust and personalized audio systems. Fill the air with well-balanced sound for remarkable ambiance and enduring memories.
Landscape and hardscape services are not static, and the end of installation is the beginning of our relationship with you. Our legacy care provides support for existing clients, whether troubleshooting an issue, updating a system, or developing new areas. Superior hardscape installation and legacy care are hallmarks for enduring landscape design in Greenville, and the Upstate.
Our maintenance plans protect your investment, extending the lifespan of your outdoor spaces. These plans encompass everything from timely inspections, weather damage repair, weed and moss control, water feature maintenance, comprehensive system checks, and additional recommendations and planning.
Hardscapes are the man-made materials used to create outdoor spaces amidst residential and commercial landscapes, including patios, walkways, retaining walls, driveways, pergolas, outdoor kitchens, landscape lighting, decks, fences, fire pits, water features, pools, and structures.
Hardscape design is the planning and installation of structural landscaping like patios, walkways, retaining walls, driveways, pergolas, outdoor kitchens, landscape lighting, decks, fences, fire pits, water features, pools, and structures. Hardscape design uses man-made and synthetic materials like concrete, brick, granite, stone, asphalt, gravel, pavers, ceramic, porcelain, and composite. Successful hardscape designs complement the architecture and landscaping of a property.
Drawing on nearly 25 years of hardscape design expertise, we consistently delight our clients with custom hardscaping for residential and commercial settings, including patios, outdoor kitchens, pools, decks, pergolas, fencing, driveways, pathways, entryways, signage monuments, parking lots, outdoor fire place and lounges, retaining walls, water features, outdoor sound, and landscape lighting, to name a few.
DabneyCollins is a landscape design firm and landscape architect 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, pool design, outdoor lighting, custom water features, and more, our team of architects and designers create the finest luxury outdoor spaces in Greenville and the Upstate. Call us to get started!
DabneyCollins serves Greenville, SC, and our service area extends throughout the Southeast. Some of our popular service areas are located within the Upstate, including Abbeville, Anderson, Arial, Clemson, Clinton, Easley, Fountain Inn, Gaffney, Greenville, Greenwood, Greer, Lake Hartwell, Lake Keowee, Laurens, Mauldin, Pendleton, Piedmont, Pickens, Seneca, Simponsville, Spartanburg, Travelers Rest, Union, and Williamston. Contact us for all service area inquiries!
The national average cost for hardscapes in early 2025 is $9000, ranging from $5000 to $18,000. For projects that include a pool or outdoor kitchen, the national average cost is $50,000, ranging from $25,000 to $100,000+. Every project is unique and depends on the size of the property, scale of the project, cost of materials, installation, and labor. Full-service hardscape design and implementation, including landscaping and systems, can easily touch multiple six figures.
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question, as the cost of hardscaping varies broadly depending on the scope of your project.
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.”
