Encino, CA · Outdoor Design-Build
Landscape & Outdoor Construction in Encino
Estate-caliber design for the Valley's grandest lots. Master-planned landscapes, pools, driveways, and hillside terracing from a design-build team based nearby in Van Nuys. Licensed and insured, CSLB #1085510.
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Estate-Caliber Outdoor Design
Encino Lots Have Room to Dream
Encino has something increasingly rare in Los Angeles: land. South of Ventura Boulevard, in the estate streets of Rancho Estates, Encino Hills, and the historic Amestoy Estates, half-acre and larger parcels are common. Even north of the Boulevard, Encino lots tend to run generous. And a generous lot changes the entire conversation about outdoor design, because the question stops being "what can we fit?" and becomes "what do we want this property to be?"
Line of Art Construction builds answers to that question. We're a design-build outdoor construction firm based nearby in Van Nuys, specializing in complete landscape remodels, hardscape, pools, driveways, and retaining walls, and Encino's large-lot properties are where our full range of capabilities gets put to work on a single address.
Whole-Property Design
The Encino Master Plan
On a compact lot, you remodel a backyard. On an Encino lot, you master-plan a property. The most successful projects we build here begin with a comprehensive design that treats the entire parcel (arrival, front landscape, side yards, rear grounds) as one composition, even when the construction happens in phases. A representative Encino master plan might include:
01 · Driveways & Entry
The Arrival Sequence
Estate properties deserve an entrance that announces them. We design and build circular driveways, gated motor courts in pavers or natural stone, flanking landscape and specimen trees, and lighting that makes the property read beautifully at night. On Encino's deeper setbacks, the journey from street to front door is genuine design territory.
Driveway installation →02 · Landscape Remodels
The Grounds
Large Encino lots often carry legacy landscapes: aging lawns, overgrown hedges, orchard remnants from the neighborhood's ranch era. We remodel these into layered, sustainable landscapes with broad drought-tolerant planting beds, mature shade trees preserved and celebrated, decomposed granite paths, and smart irrigation. Where clients want lawn, we design it as a deliberate feature in the right place rather than a default covering everything.
Backyard remodeling in Los Angeles →03 · Pool, Kitchen & Lounge
The Resort Core
The heart of most Encino projects: pool and spa, surrounding deck in stone or porcelain pavers, a covered outdoor kitchen and dining pavilion, a lounge area with a fire feature, and landscape lighting throughout. With Encino's lot sizes, a full-size pool doesn't crowd the yard, and the kitchen can be a true pavilion rather than a corner installation.
04 · Courts, Greens & Gardens
Sport and Family Zones
Space permitting, and in Encino it usually does, we build the extras that make a property a compound: sports courts, putting greens, play areas sited within sight lines of the main terrace, and garden or orchard zones that nod to the neighborhood's agricultural roots.
Privacy Landscaping
Privacy: The Encino Priority
If there's one theme that runs through nearly every Encino consultation, it's privacy. This neighborhood has long been home to people who value discretion, and its best properties feel like private worlds. Done well, privacy design doesn't feel defensive; it feels serene. We engineer that feeling deliberately:
Perimeter Hedging
Perimeter privacy hedging with fast-establishing, dense species.
Walls and Gates
Masonry walls and gates finished to match the residence.
Strategic Trees
Strategic tree placement to screen neighboring second stories.
Layered Depth
Layered planting that creates depth, so the boundary disappears rather than looming.
Retaining Walls & Terracing
Hillside Work in Encino Hills
South of the flats, Encino climbs. The view streets of Encino Hills bring slopes, and slopes bring our retaining wall and terracing expertise into play. We design engineered wall systems that convert grade into usable space (a level pool pad carved into a hillside, terraced gardens stepping down from a view deck) with the drainage and structural detailing that hillside longevity demands.
Los Angeles hillside properties are unforgiving of shortcuts. We don't take them.
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Renovating Encino's Legacy Pools
Encino has one of the Valley's great inventories of mid-century pools, and many are showing their sixty years. Pool remodeling is one of our signature services here: replastering with modern quartz and pebble finishes, retiling, recoping in stone, converting to salt systems, upgrading to efficient variable-speed equipment, adding baja shelves and integrated spas where structure allows, and rebuilding the surrounding decks.
A dated pool drags a whole property backward; a renovated one, tied into new hardscape, transforms it.
Free Consultation + Free 3D Design
How We Work
Every project begins with a free on-site consultation and a free 3D design. On Encino properties, the 3D model earns its keep quickly: when you're making decisions about an entire parcel, seeing the design rendered from multiple vantage points and testing alternatives costs nothing and prevents expensive second-guessing. From there, we manage the project end to end, including engineering coordination, Los Angeles permits (pools, walls, structures, gas and electrical), demolition, construction, and finish landscape. One team, one point of accountability.
We also phase intelligently. Many Encino clients build the master plan over two or three stages (resort core first, arrival sequence second, sport zones later), and because the full design exists from day one, each phase lands exactly where it belongs, with no rework.
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Developed Grounds, Real Value
The Value Case for Developing Your Encino Lot
Encino's estate market is defined by finished, private, resort-quality grounds; that's what the neighborhood's benchmark sales all have in common. Land is Encino's advantage, but raw land doesn't appraise like developed grounds do.
Comprehensive outdoor development is how large-lot Encino properties reach their potential, both as places to live and as assets.
Service Area
Serving Encino, Flats to Hills
We design and build across Encino, including Rancho Estates, Encino Hills, the historic Amestoy Estates, and the generous lots north of Ventura Boulevard.
Line of Art Construction
Main office, nearby in Van Nuys
6463 Mammoth Ave, Unit A
Van Nuys, CA 91401
(818) 232-1964Encino Landscaping FAQ
Questions Encino Homeowners Ask Us
Can we build our Encino master plan in phases?
Yes. Many Encino clients build over two or three stages, such as the resort core first, the arrival sequence second, and sport zones later. Because the full design exists from day one, each phase lands exactly where it belongs, with no rework.
How do you create privacy on an Encino property?
With perimeter hedging in fast-establishing, dense species, masonry walls and gates finished to match the residence, trees placed to screen neighboring second stories, and layered planting that creates depth so the boundary disappears rather than looming.
Do you build pools and retaining walls on Encino Hills slopes?
Yes. We design engineered wall systems that convert grade into usable space, like a level pool pad carved into a hillside or terraced gardens stepping down from a view deck, with the drainage and structural detailing hillside longevity demands.
Can you renovate a mid-century pool?
Yes, it's one of our signature Encino services: quartz and pebble replastering, retiling, stone coping, salt system conversion, variable-speed equipment, baja shelves and integrated spas where structure allows, and rebuilt surrounding decks.
Do you handle engineering and permits?
Yes. We manage engineering coordination and Los Angeles permits for pools, walls, structures, and gas and electrical work, along with demolition, construction, and finish landscape, as one team with one point of accountability.
Is the consultation and 3D design free?
Yes. Every project begins with a free on-site consultation and a free 3D design, so you can walk the whole property virtually and test alternatives before committing.