Every backyard remodel in Wheaton, IL starts as a list. A patio that is too small, a slope nobody uses, a grill sitting on the grass, and a vague sense that the whole space could work better. Turning that list into a build means deciding what the yard has to do, in what order the pieces go in, and which decisions close off options later.

Apple Landscape Design is a Wheaton-based landscape design and hardscape company serving homeowners across DuPage, Will and Cook counties. We are also a Unilock Authorized Contractor, trained and certified to install Unilock paver and wall products to manufacturer standards for base preparation, drainage integration and product installation.

Retaining wall construction in Wheaton, IL, is judged on the parts buried out of sight. Homeowners compare block colors and cap profiles, while the wall's lifespan is settled by trench depth, aggregate quality, compaction and where the water goes.

Apple Landscape Design is a family-owned company and a Unilock Authorized Contractor working across Wheaton and DuPage County, and our crews build to the manufacturer's engineered specification rather than to whatever holds until the check clears.

Hiring an outdoor fireplace contractor in Wheaton, IL, is a masonry decision before it is a style decision. A fireplace is a chimney with a room attached: it carries its own weight on a footing, it pulls smoke up a flue sized to the firebox, and it stands through freeze and thaw for thirty years or fails in five.

Apple Landscape Design is a family-owned company and a Unilock Authorized Contractor based in Wheaton, and our crews build fire features as part of the patio rather than as an object dropped onto one. This guide covers what a builder actually decides on your behalf.

Outdoor kitchen construction in Wheaton, IL, turns one corner of the patio into the place an entire evening runs through. Our team treats these kitchens as structures rather than furniture: a compacted base, a masonry core, utilities routed underground, and surfaces that hold their color through a Chicago-area winter.

Apple Landscape Design is a family-owned company and a Unilock Authorized Contractor working out of Wheaton, and we plan every outdoor kitchen alongside the terrace it sits on. That order matters.

The outdoor kitchen that was designed as part of the overall landscape plan sits within the space as if it belongs. The stone on the base matches the patio. The counter height relates to the bar seating. The grill faces the gathering area. The smoke drifts away from the dining table. And the evening flows between cooking, serving, and conversation without anyone noticing the transitions.

The outdoor kitchen that was added to the patio after the landscape was finished sits on top of the space. The material does not quite match. The utilities were retrofitted through the finished surface. The orientation was determined by the gas line location rather than the social dynamic. And the evening feels like it happens around the kitchen rather than within it.

Landscape design in Wheaton, IL, often starts the same way. A homeowner adds a patio. Then some plants. Maybe lighting later. But something still feels off.

The space doesn’t flow. It doesn’t feel easy to use. And it rarely feels like a place you want to spend time in at the end of the day. That’s because most outdoor spaces are built in pieces. Not as one plan.