Opulands Landscape Design & Construction

Transform your backyard into a functional, beautiful retreat with custom hardscaping, patios, fire pits, and drought-tolerant gardens. Our designs prioritize sustainability and personalization, ensuring seamless integration with your home's architecture and lifestyle needs while enhancing property value.

Elevate your home's exterior with paver driveways, walkways, and lawn conversions that boost curb appeal and environmental responsibility. We specialize in low-maintenance, water-efficient designs that align with local climate conditions and architectural styles.

Create durable, elegant outdoor structures using interlocking pavers, retaining walls, and custom carpentry. Our hardscaping solutions combine aesthetic appeal with practical functionality, from patios to pergolas, ensuring lasting beauty and structural integrity.

Enhance your landscape with tailored plantings, lawns, and irrigation systems that thrive in the Bay Area climate. We focus on biodiversity, water conservation, and seasonal beauty, integrating native plants and pollinator-friendly gardens.

Collaborate with our experts to develop a cohesive vision for your outdoor space, balancing aesthetics and practicality. From 3D modeling to material selection, we guide you through every phase to ensure a seamless, stress-free transformation.

Steven van Dongen, founder of Opulands, brings decades of landscaping expertise to every project. With formal education in horticulture and landscape design, he oversees all operations, ensuring precision and client satisfaction through his commitment to quality and innovation.

We specialize in backyard and front yard landscaping, hardscaping, softscape design, irrigation systems, and outdoor lighting tailored to Bay Area homes.

We begin with a consultation to understand your vision, followed by customized design plans and transparent project management from start to finish.

We primarily serve Bay Area cities, including San Jose, Palo Alto, and Sunnyvale. Contact us to confirm availability for your location.

Yes, we integrate drought-tolerant plants, permeable hardscaping, and smart irrigation systems to promote environmental responsibility and water conservation.

Our award-winning designs, master artisans, and client-focused approach ensure personalized, high-quality results that align with your lifestyle and budget.

I am so happy we found Steven. He is very professional, experienced, and has a calm manner that put me at ease. He has competitive rates, he was able to start within a month, and he redid our entire driveway, lawn and patio of our corner lot in just three weeks. I went in with a pretty good idea of what I wanted for the front yard, and I loved how he listened carefully, made helpful suggestions, but didn't push anything onto us.

I don't have a design background so he was really able to bring my vision to life. For instance, I knew I wanted a sitting wall to line the patio and what that would look like, but he suggested the shape and distance from the house that was different than what I thought, but made perfect sense and now I love the look and feel of the space. I have to admit that I sent him texts and emails quite often with specifics of what I wanted and I'm sure it was annoying, but I really wanted everything to be just right.

He always responded right away and didn't seem put off by my frequent changes regarding small details. I trusted that since he had been in the business so long that he would find the very best people to put in the pavers, sitting wall, and artificial grass, and I was right. I loved Jose, the foreman. He is fast and has great attention to detail. He did some things that I hadn't actually communicated to Steven, but that I did want.

He just really knows how to lay out everything so it looks aesthetically pleasing. And thank God for that since we didn't hire a designer. We also loved how respectful Steven was with Jose and his team. They seemed to have a great rapport. We're just so happy with how everything turned out, and we plan to use him again when we redo the backyard. They put in the pavers, stones, sitting wall, artificial grass and steps. We couldn't be happier!

Steven and his crew did an outstanding job with landscaping our backyard. They presented a good set of design options, waited for our feedback, executed the job very professionally and cleaned things after it was complete. The crew went above and beyond in clearing out existing stones and artifacts from a previous job too. I am very happy with the overall workmanship and will gladly endorse their work

This was my first experience involving a backyard renovation. Luckily, Steven and his crew at Opulands held my hand, and answered all of my questions and concerns as they walked me through the process. Opulands was able to take my general idea and concept, and turn it into a reality, and all within budget! They turned my patch of dead grass into a beautiful Victorian paver-stone patio with pergola boardered by a dogleg left!

During the COVID, my elderly father was unable to frequent the links the way he used to, so we brought the course to him, and he loves it! We can't wait to share our new backyard with our friends and family! If you're in the market for some excitement and change with the space you already have, have Steven leverage his expertise and experience on your behalf to explore the potential of your yard in becoming your own personal wonderland (or par 3 golf hole!) If your situation was anything like ours, you'll be glad you took a look at Opulands!

We met Steven from Opulands in Los Gatos at the rotary. Steven came over the next day and spent over several months a lot of time with my husband and I designing what turned out to be an awesome new backyard. We love the paver patio, fire pit, smoker and BBQ island. My 2 year old son is in love with the lawn, seating benches and his new play area.