Residential landscape design and build across Massachusetts. Terraces, pool surrounds, walls, kitchens and planting, drawn to scale and built by our own crew.
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Thirty seconds on site at a finished Mayo project, with the person who drew it and runs the crew that built it.
Start your projectMayo is a design-build practice in Concord, Massachusetts. Evan Maione draws every project himself and runs the crew that builds it, which is the reason the finished space matches the plan.
Terraces sized around the furniture you actually own. Walls that hold a grade for decades. Planting that looks right the year it goes in and correct three years later.
Four projects Evan drew and his own crew built, and more of the finished work below.
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The client's family actually using the space. Evening, lights on, food on the table. The single biggest gap in the photo library.
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Six stages, in this order, on every project. The drawing is finished and approved before anything is dug, which is why the build has no surprises in it.
How you want to use the outside of your house, what is not working now, and what the space has to do for your family. Photographs and rough ideas are useful. Nothing has to be resolved yet.
Evan walks the property with you. Grades, drainage, sun, machine access and where the house actually wants a terrace. This is where what you want meets what the site allows.
Evan measures the property and models it to scale in SketchUp Pro. You see the terrace, the levels, the materials and the planting before a machine is on site.
You move things while moving them still costs a conversation. A terrace shifted on the drawing is a phone call. The same terrace shifted after the base is compacted is a change order.
One drawing, one schedule of materials and one number, from the person who is going to build it. The plan is yours at the end of it, whether or not Mayo builds it.
Evan’s own crew, from the first stake to the last stone. The build follows the drawing you approved, which is the reason the finished space matches the plan.
Most projects combine several of these into one drawing, one price and one crew. No item on this list is sold on its own as a package.
Sized around real furniture and real circulation, on a base built for a New England freeze and thaw. Dimensional stone, natural flagging or manufactured paver depending on the house.
Retaining walls with the drainage behind them that decides whether a wall is still straight in ten years, seat walls that make a terrace usable, and stone stairs cut to a comfortable rise.
Coping, decking and the planting that settles a pool into the property. Surfaces chosen for bare feet in August.
Built-in kitchens, fire pits and full outdoor fireplaces, detailed in the same masonry as the terrace they sit in.
Cedar pergolas, decking, porches and three and four season porches, framed by the same crew that builds the hardscape.
Planting plans drawn to mature size on the site's real light and soil, plus low voltage lighting for paths, walls and specimen trees.
During construction, and the same slope holding: fieldstone wall, terrace, lawn and planting.
Who you work with
Owner and lead designer. A degree in financial analytics with a minor in landscape architecture from UMass Amherst, magna cum laude, and a crew he runs himself.
Licensed Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor, OSHA certified, a certified Stoneyard veneer installer and a Unilock Recognized Installer. The last two are manufacturer certifications: the companies making the stone have signed off on how it goes in.
“Communication was great, and the work product was above expectations.”
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