Arborealis

Arboreails did a great job setting up our yard redesign. We would recommend Arthur to anyone. We have enjoyed many hours in our yard since the redo. Thanks Arthur
Feb 15th, 2024

Arthur Brito definitely has a good vision of Landscape Design, and working with him has been an absolute pleasure. I had the opportunity to build on the projects that Arborealis Designed; Arthur Brito's approach to design and communication while building the project was always transparentanswering our questions and concerns on time so that we could move forward with the construction process.
Aug 24th, 2022

Jan 9th, 2021

Im so glad we hired Arthur to work his magic on our backyard. Arthur took our vision of an industrial modern entertaining space filled with decomposed granite, succulents and serene features and made it a true reality. His drawings are beautiful with amazing attention to detail, and he made creative use of every inch of space so that our water feature, natural gas fire pit, sectional, dining area, all fit beautifully. We have a small house so needed our backyard to be a true continuation of our living space, and Arthur made that happen. He also referred and worked hand in hand with the landscape contractor we chose. Arthur takes feedback, responds quickly and implements immediately. He is excellent to work with and I have referred him to others whole heartedly. We love our new space!
Mar 18th, 2020

Arthur is the best! We have a strange, old home in Alameda which features an ugly cement block building in the backyard. This building was an auto shop from the 1940's through the 1970's. Behind the auto shop is a 16 x 30" plot of ground which is simply dead space and weeds. The auto shop dumped old parts back there. In Victorian times, it was used as the trash heap. I almost killed two rototillers trying to turn the rock and junk filled ground back there. Aside from the old cement block garage, we don't have much of a backyard. My wife and I always hoped we could turn the "junkyard" into a usable area. Arthur did more than that. He transformed this black hole on our property into an award winning, Sunset magazine-style patio. (To be clear, it has only won imaginary awards from the neighbors and Sunset has never featured it in their magazine but they should!)Arthur is very relaxed but methodical in his process. From the first meeting, my wife and I knew we were in good hands. Arthur had an extensive talk with us regarding what we were looking for and our budget. My wife and I had very strong ideas but we don't know much about landscaping. Arthur was very patient, showed us many different ideas and types of plants and took extensive notes. It was almost like working with a design therapist. He was able to divine from me and my wife that we wanted a casual but lush patio and BBQ area. We wanted some areas for gardening (which was sort of silly since we have never kept a plant alive longer than a few weeks inside or outside our house) and, most of all, we wanted super low maintenance, hard to kill plants that looked nice.  Arthur went away for a few weeks and came back with three very different designs. We melded two of the designs together to come up with a café style, paver patio complete with fruit trees, trellis', raised rusted steel planters and multiple seating areas. During the design and building phase, Arthur was very responsive with any questions we had.It fit the period of our Victorian home, it looks great and it is super durable. The kids play back there and after three years it looks just as good when it was first installed.  All of the plants are drought resistant but are set up on a super basic drip system. We haven't killed one plant! The lemon tree is actually growing lemons and this is our third year planting a garden! In all fairness, we are still awful gardeners but Arthur designed a pretty fool proof system. We plant flowers and vegetables in the spring, they grow throw in the summer (the drip system keeps everything super healthy) and then when everything goes kaput in the winter, we rip it all out, put in new soil and start over fresh in the spring. The kids love it and we probably spend a couple Saturdays all year gardening. That's it!We can't sing Arthur's praises enough. The last thing I want to compliment him for is his competitive pricing. My wife and I are not some rich, Bay Area family with a ton of money to throw around. We need to spend every penny wisely. Not only were Arthur's services well within our budget, but he was very conscious of creating a design that we could actually afford a contractor to install. Because he didn't over design, we were able to keep every detail in his plans and he even helped us upgrade from redwood to steel planters at no added cost. Overall, our experience with Arthur was top notch and we can't recommend him enough.
Mar 1st, 2020