Pland.
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Backyard design packages for people who build it themselves

A backyard plan you can actually build. In order.

Your plan, your materials list and the order to build it in. Drawn for your block from photos and measurements you take. No site visit, no contractor.

What makes a Pland plan different

Most garden designs stop at a pretty picture. Yours comes with the hard part.

Construction detail

Drawn to be built, not admired

Setout dimensions from your house and boundaries, levels and falls, and detail for anything stepped or retained. Included, not an extra.

Build order

What to do first, second and last

A staged sequence so you never pave over a drain you haven't dug. Split it across weekends or across years.

DIY or trade

Know what to hire out before you start

Every item is marked as yours or a trade's. Drainage tie-ins and engineered walls go to a professional. The rest is yours.

Materials list

Quantities you can take to the yard

Pavers in m², soil and mulch in m³, every plant with pot size and count. Price it yourself or get like-for-like quotes.

How it works

Four steps from an unused yard to a plan on your kitchen table.

You do the looking and measuring. We do the thinking and drawing.

How a plan gets made without a site visit
  1. Choose your package

    Pick by block size and how complex the yard is. One fixed price.

  2. Show us your yard

    Photos from set spots, a short walk-through video, a few tape measurements, and your title plan. We guide you through each one.

  3. We design and check it

    We add levels, soil and climate data for your address, draw the plan, and an independent landscape professional checks it can be built.

  4. You build it, room by room

    Your plan, materials list and build order arrive ready to use.

Inside a package

A real setout plan, not a mood board.

Every package includes a scaled plan dimensioned from fixed points on your block, so you can peg it out with a tape and string line.

  • Setout plan and levels
  • Planting schedule with species, pot size and spacing
  • Materials list with quantities
  • Staged build sequence
  • DIY or trade, item by item
  • Images of the finished garden
Walk through a sample package

Pland suits some yards and some people better than others.

A good fit if you

  • Want to build most of it yourself, over weekends
  • Got a landscaping quote and thought "we could do that"
  • Have a new build with a bare yard and a tight budget
  • Want a plan to compare trade quotes against

Not the right fit if you

  • Need council or DA drawings
  • Have a block over 1,200 m²
  • Need engineered retaining walls designed
  • Want someone to build it for you
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Get on the list for the first plans.

We're taking a small number of first customers. Join the list and we'll tell you when packages open, plus send our free guide to the order to build a backyard in.

Packages start from $899.

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