Daly Sublette Landscape Architects

Kerry Rodrigue

4 years ago

All I can say is that I’m in the same business and I respect them and I think their work is very good very high quality. But I think we’re probably better.

david becnel

4 years ago

Brain is personally one of the most talented Landscape Designers I have seen in 25 years in this business.

Cheri Areaux

5 years ago

Hiring the right landscape architect can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. We’ve had a relationship with Daly-Sublette for the past 16 years. We already had plans for a pool drawn up by our swimming pool contractor when we saw one designed by Brian Sublette. It was awesome!!!! We hired Brian to redesign the plans for our pool. He came up with a design that evolved around our existing trees and incorporated plantings that actually jutted out into the pool. He literally turned our backyard into an oasis. He did this without increasing our budget. Our backyard was actually prettier than friends that had spent far more. Now, after purchasing a very plain 1960’s ranch style home, Brian has developed a design using pavers and new landscaping to give it some character and charm. I highly recommend this firm for all of your landscape design. Brian is professional, truly talented, and most important to me…..patient.

Connie LaFrance

6 years ago

Brian Sublette drew plans for a built-in swimming pool and garden, to compliment our narrow Lakeview split level home’s backyard years ago. I wanted it to look as if we had a garden, then dropped a swimming pool and spa with a waterfall right it it. Brian even advised us about the colors for the pool and decking. The results were perfectly gorgeous!

Cindy Fromherz

11 years ago

We hired Daly Sublette to develop plans for a total backyard renovation, including a raised porch with parking underneath, and worked directly with Brian Sublette the owner. Here are the problems we encountered. We paid $3,420 for a plan that was unbuildable. The measurements were grossly off, and we could not get the plan corrected despite verbal and written comments that it was trapezoidal, not rectangular as shown. After my contractor and I finally decided to work around the errors as best we could, a number of other problems became apparent. The detailed porch drawings did not comply with the building code. The drainage plans were unacceptable, and would have eventually undermined the foundation of the parking pad. Excavations for the paver base of the driveway would have required removal of a huge mass of magnolia roots, likely killing the tree. After doing some research, I became concerned about using pavers with polymeric sand under the porch roof’s drip line. Brian insisted that this was done all the time. (After serious erosion, two different hardscape contractors told me that sand should never be used in such a situation.) Brian’s crew installed the planting for another $15,000. They seriously damaged my electric gate by incorrect placement of metal edging. One specimen plant was dying when it was installed, and others not appropriate for their locations later died. Our contract called for their replacement, but we got the brush off (monitor the dead plants and get back to me in the fall). I am a long time gardener. When I argued with Brian over his plans to put tender shade loving ferns in a location that got direct midday summer sun, he actually asked me why I didn’t trust him. Would you?