we create beautiful places outside.
Every project begins with a vision for the whole property and a process that carries it from the first sketch through the last day on site. That's what turns a good idea into a beautiful place.
our process
hello
We meet you on your property and learn how you live outside: where the sun falls, where you gather, how the land meets the house.
imagine
We imagine what the property could become and draw it by hand: first sketches, then plans, until the idea feels right.
create
The team that imagined it creates it, adding plan details and drawings as the work calls for them.
some of our recent designs
from the property to the garden
recognition
2026 Laurel Award for Horticulture, the Preservation Society of Newport County, for the rain garden at Marble House
three RINLA Honor Awards, 2023: Old Beach Oasis, Home on Hamilton and Brook Woods
People's Choice Award, Newport Flower Show, 2015 and 2016
"O'Connor Design Build transformed our existing front landscape with a stacked stone retaining wall and new shrubbery. Tom chose a variety of deciduous plantings, evergreens and grasses along with a bluestone walkway enhancing our entrance. Nicely done! We would highly recommend Tom and his crew."
– Middletown Resident
