Create Function & Beauty With Kansas City Retaining Wall Design & Installation
Is your landscape a chaotic, hilly mess? Do you hold your breath during every rainstorm, hoping water won’t wash away more of your slope?
Banish those worries with solutions that bring both form and function to your space: retaining walls.
Consider a waved and terraced shape to show off gorgeous garden beds full of flowers. Spacing between terraced retaining walls can also be used as pathways to other areas of your landscape. Or use a retaining wall with a staircase to create an elegant home entryway. You can even create a beautiful and functional living retaining wall with spaces designed for herbs and other greenery.
Retaining walls can bring the right solutions to all your complex landscape challenges.
Retaining Walls Create More Usable Space
When you have a lovely landscape of rolling hills, paver patios and other flat entertaining areas don’t always seem like they’ll even be possible. But retaining walls make them a reality by adding a layered aesthetic that contributes to your yard’s beauty while harnessing the natural elevation of your land.
Retaining walls raise your landscape, creating flat areas along hillsides to ensure soil doesn’t spill out and keeping your outdoors tidy.
The right design can even add a touch of luxury while effortlessly creating usable areas for planting and seating in your landscape.
Retaining Walls Provide Soil Support
Retaining walls allow you to have different soil levels in your yard.
Gravity is tricky and never ceases to keep soil moving right along with it when slopes are involved. It’s a hard battle to fight. Retaining walls provide a great defense by meeting your creative vision while also serving a structural purpose, holding that soil together and stopping erosion in its tracks.
A properly and expertly constructed retaining wall is built with support to hold heavy soil and keep it in place. There’s an art in ensuring retaining wall stability and sturdiness that our experts know well.
Retaining Walls Can be Functional and Attractive You might think retaining walls are just concrete blocks stacked up in wall form. This is far from the truth today. And we don’t do boring.
While concrete blocks have their place, retaining walls can be created with boulders, bricks, and stone, using creative designs and patterns. You can even tailor your retaining wall to the rest of your landscape and your home architecture to bring a cohesive look and feel to your space.
Your Space. Your Look.
We can craft retaining walls to bring a modern elegance to your space in smooth, light gray tones mixed with whites or dark shades.
Or maybe you want to take modern to a new level with varying depths, giving your wall a three-dimensional visual effect. Mixing smooth and chiseled textures adds interest — perfect for something unique and super sleek.
There are even concrete blocks that are made to look like rustic wood to inspire a more traditional, antique look. This way you get wood aesthetics mixed with concrete’s practicality and durability.
Designed well, retaining walls blend into the earth seamlessly, while creating focal points on your property. Once installed, they require little maintenance, yet do a powerful job of holding back soil, preventing erosion, and creating functional living spaces.
Your Property, Your Legacy
Our work is personal to us. We take extreme care in crafting the luxury outdoor experience you deserve, the one that meets the aesthetic of your home and serves your lifestyle. Take a look at some of the work we've done in the Kansas City, Missouri, area.
The High Prairie Process
An Experience-Driven Process
Our processes create customized solutions to help you master the art of the experience-driven lifestyle. This is what to expect when you work with us on Design/Build projects or all-inclusive Maintenance:
Get In Touch
Fill out our online form to get started. We'll be in touch to discuss the details of your project to make sure we're a good fit for you. If so, we'll set up your Discovery Meeting and provide a pricing guide to help you know what to expect.
Discovery Meeting
This is a free meeting at our design studio, where you'll select a design package. You'll have an opportunity to meet your designer and share details about your unique design style. We'll learn about your priorities and preferences as we help you discover your many options and possibilities. At this time, we'll collect half of the design fee.
Site Analysis
The Site Analysis breaks down the three pillars of memory making: how you relax, play, and connect. It includes measurements, drainage and grading considerations, architectural and existing element analysis, soil analysis, and a review of design opportunities, all seen through the lens of your three pillars.
Concept Reveal Meeting
At our studio or remotely, this is where you'll review your detailed design and discuss material options with your designer. If there are budget considerations, we can discuss phasing the project as needed.
Final Design Reveal and Proposal Presentation
We'll finalize the materials and order your selections upon your approval. Your Prairie Power Team will create a project plan, complete with milestones and target tasks. As we work through planning and permitting, you'll receive weekly updates, and after you sign, we'll get you on the schedule.
Crafting Your Space
The team will work diligently and according to schedule. You can track our progress and watch your landscape unfold via our project web platform.
Final Walkthrough + Ongoing Maintenance
You'll do a final walkthrough with the designer, and we will accept the final payment. You’ll learn more about our worry-free maintenance program options and we can schedule your Lawncierge project check-ins for proactive attention and monitoring of your new space.
Year-Round Services for Comprehensive Property Care
All of our services are completed by highly skilled crews equipped with specialized tools and landscaping know-how. With stonemasons, pool builders, horticulturists, and more on our team, we can complete 95 percent of our projects completely in-house, which means you’ll enjoy a stress-free build! As certified General Contractors, we can bring in electricians and plumbers as required, eliminating the need for you to juggle multiple contractors. This is what we can do for you:
Pools
Redefine your summers with a custom concrete or stainless steel pool installed by our in-house pool builders. Your design may include pool decking and landscaping as part of a comprehensive outdoor living space. Visit our Pools page to learn more.
Landscape Design
With a deep understanding of the five distinctive historical garden styles, we create timeless designs that age with grace and beauty. Our experience-driven approach means we take everything into consideration: your lifestyle, existing architecture, personal preferences, practical requirements, and future goals for outdoor living. Visit our Landscape Design page to learn more.
Landscape Installation
The lushest landscapes begin with the healthiest soils. As part of our “Legacy Program”, we’ll lab test your soils and provide a comprehensive plan for building your soil health. Then, our horticulturalists will plant each plant with the care and nurturing even a Master Gardener would appreciate. (Seriously, Master Gardeners love us!) Visit our Landscape Installation page to learn more.
Outdoor Living
The experience-driven lifestyle starts outside! Your outdoor living space should be uniquely yours, with the colors, plants, and features—like built-in grills, outdoor kitchens, privacy panels, fireplaces, paver patios, pergolas, landscape lighting, sound systems and more—that meet your lifestyle goals. Visit our Outdoor Living page to learn more.
Landscape Maintenance
Customize an effortless landscape maintenance program with services like water feature maintenance, plant health care, tree pruning, fungus treatment, lawn mowing, weed control, and so much more. We show up on time, work with precision, and keep you updated on the condition of your property. Visit our Landscape Maintenance page to learn more.
Decks
As a full-service landscaping company, we have our own deck builders. Collaborate with us, and we will match your deck to your needs and home aesthetic. Visit our Decks page to learn more.
Holiday Lighting
Get in the festive spirit without climbing on any ladders! We have the tools and experience required to design exceptional holiday lighting displays that uplift the entire neighborhood—and we'll take those decorations down for you at the end of the season, too. Visit our Holiday Lighting page to learn more.
Spas
Nothing says relaxation like a backyard spa. We can design your spa to fit beautifully on your patio or amidst your garden, and you'll enjoy it for years to come. Visit our Pools & Spas page to learn more.
Sprinklers / Irrigation
Practical, responsible watering solutions give your lawn and plants the support they need without waste. Easy-to-use digital systems offer incredible water and cost savings and require minimal maintenance. Visit our Sprinklers page to learn more.
Drainage
Proper drainage is an investment in the longevity of your home and landscape. We address it as part of your landscape design and installation—or you can work with us to fix any drainage issues in your existing landscape.
Providing Exceptional Landscape Maintenance in Kansas City, MO, and These Area Communities
We offer our comprehensive landscaping services to homeowners throughout the Kansas City area:
- Parkville, Missouri
- Belton, Missouri
- Lee's Summit, Missouri
- Liberty, Missouri
- Blue Springs, Missouri
- Westwood, Kansas
- Fairway, Kansas
- Olathe, Kansas
- Mission Woods, Kansas
Visit our Service Area page to get a closer look at where we work.