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Rare Landscapes

Luxury Landscape Design & Outdoor Living in Orono, MN

Rare Landscapes creates luxury landscape design and outdoor living spaces for homeowners in Orono, MN. From complete backyard transformations to pools, patios, outdoor kitchens, structures, retaining walls, planting, and lighting, we plan major features around one vision for the property.

Founder Will Archuleta personally leads the design process, and 3D landscape planning allows homeowners to understand how the property will function before construction begins.

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Why Choose Us

Why Orono Homeowners Choose Rare Landscapes

Larger or more complex properties benefit from a clear master plan before individual areas are built. Rare Landscapes combines design, visualization, and direct founder involvement within one process.

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Founder-led

Will Archuleta stays directly involved throughout the project.

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Whole-property planning

Outdoor rooms, hardscape, structures, planting, and circulation are considered together.

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3D landscape design

Understand scale, placement, and relationships before construction.

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High-end residential focus

Designs respond to the architecture, land, views, and homeowner priorities.

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Personal oversight

One clear design direction carries from the early concept into construction.

What we do

Landscape Design & Outdoor Living Services in Orono

Rare Landscapes designs outdoor environments for Orono properties that need more than isolated landscaping improvements.

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3D Landscape Design

Custom outdoor living plans that help you see the space, layout, and details before the project begins.
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Landscape Design

Custom landscape design that blends hardscape, planting, and premium materials into one cohesive outdoor living plan.
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Custom Swimming Pools

Custom pool layouts, poolside patios, landscaping, lighting, and full backyard pool environments.
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Patio Design & Installation

Paver patios, natural stone patios, poolside patios, and outdoor entertaining areas.
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Decks

Maintenance-free decks, cedar decks, and premium wood options such as Ipe.
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Pergolas & Pavilions

Outdoor structures that add shade, comfort, architecture, and year-round usability.
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Retaining Walls

Block, boulder, and outcropping walls designed to shape the property and support the space.
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Outdoor Kitchens & Bars

Custom outdoor cooking, dining, and entertaining areas.
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Outdoor Living Design

Complete outdoor living plans that connect patios, kitchens, fire features, lighting, and more.
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Fireplaces & Fire Pits

Fire features that create warmth, gathering space, and a natural focal point.
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Driveways

Paver and concrete driveway solutions designed to complement the home and landscape.
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Landscape Lighting

Outdoor LED and landscape lighting that brings the space to life after sunset.
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Saunas

Custom sauna integrations for homeowners who want a private wellness-focused outdoor retreat.
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Screened-in Porches

Three-season and four-season porches, including motorized screen solutions.
Our work

Outdoor Living Projects in & Around Orono

A larger property can support multiple outdoor spaces, but those spaces still need a clear relationship to one another.

Reviews

What Homeowners Say About Rare Landscapes

Homeowners trust Rare Landscapes for design-led outdoor living projects that feel personal, refined, and built around the property. Rated 4.3 stars across 24 Google reviews — browse every 5-star review below, or open the full list on Google.

★★★★★
Google

We recently worked with Will at Rare Landscapes to redesign and replace our old paver patio, and the experience was outstanding from start to finish. Will created a beautiful patio design while also reusing our existing pavers, which helped us maintain our budget without sacrificing quality or appearance. What stood out most was how involved and communicative Will was throughout the entire project. Highly recommend Will and Rare Landscapes if you’re looking for creative design, professionalism, and great value.

Todd WhiteGoogle Review
★★★★★
Google

We had a dead lawn after we bought the place in winter. Bill came in with his crew, removed the lawn, took out the tree blocking the front of our wonderful home and installed class 5 to store our truck and boat. Fantastic work. On time, responsive, great quality work, great price, nice and professional crew.

Joey ReillyGoogle Review
★★★★★
Google

We had a great experience working with Bill and his team. Very professional work and the results were outstanding. Added a top level rock wall, modified existing steps to make safer and added more interesting curve and additional level, and replaced old stone walk way with nicely color contrasting pavers.

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What Homeowners Say About Rare Landscapes

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Planning a Complete Orono Property Transformation?

Before adding a pool, patio, pavilion, kitchen, wall, or new landscape, establish how the entire property should work. Rare Landscapes uses a design-first process to create that plan before individual features start dictating the layout.

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Who we design for

Landscape Design for Orono Homes & Properties

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Owners of Larger Estate Properties

Large properties create opportunities for multiple outdoor rooms, but distance and scale can make them feel disconnected. Rare Landscapes plans circulation, destination spaces, planting, lighting, and hardscape as parts of one property.

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Lake Minnetonka Homeowners

Rare Landscapes designs outdoor living environments around the way homeowners experience the property, including views, gathering areas, transitions toward the lake, privacy, and connections back to the home.

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Homeowners With Mature Wooded Lots

Existing trees can shape where pools, patios, structures, and open lawn areas belong. Good planning uses those existing conditions to establish shade, enclosure, privacy, and visual depth.

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Custom-Home & Major Renovation Clients

When a home is being built or significantly renovated, landscape planning can coordinate driveways, entries, outdoor structures, entertaining areas, pool environments, and planting before the exterior spaces become fragmented.

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What We Consider When Designing Landscapes in Orono

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Property Scale & Master Planning

Orono competitors consistently emphasize larger residential properties, estate-scale landscapes, and integrated outdoor living. That makes whole-property planning especially important here.

Rare Landscapes can use the initial design to establish how arrival areas, outdoor rooms, pools, paths, planting, and quieter parts of the property relate before construction begins.

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Wooded Lots, Privacy & Long Views

Trees and larger setbacks can create privacy naturally, but they also affect shade and sight lines. Landscape design should decide where views should remain open, where planting should create enclosure, and where outdoor rooms feel most natural.

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Slopes, Walls & Circulation

Grade changes influence patios, walkways, retaining walls, steps, pool areas, and routes through larger properties. Several companies ranking for Orono emphasize these exact conditions, particularly on sloped and lake-oriented sites.

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Lake-Oriented Properties

Lake Minnetonka is a central geographic feature of Orono, which has shoreline associated with multiple bays and public access points including Maxwell Bay and North Arm.

For private properties, design decisions should respond to views, access, topography, vegetation, and applicable property requirements without assuming every Orono home has the same lake relationship.

About Orono

Living in Orono, Minnesota

Lake Minnetonka is one of Orono's defining geographic features. City planning documents describe more than 40 miles of Lake Minnetonka shoreline within Orono, in addition to shoreline on other lakes.

Local lake-related entities include Maxwell Bay and North Arm, both of which have public lake access, while Noerenberg Memorial Gardens is another well-known landscape along Lake Minnetonka within the Orono area.

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Serving Orono & the Lake Minnetonka Area

Rare Landscapes serves Orono and residential communities throughout the Lake Minnetonka and west-metro area.

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3D Landscape Design

Plan Your Orono Property in 3D Before Construction

3D landscape design is especially valuable when a property includes several major features or distinct outdoor zones. Rare Landscapes can visualize pools, patios, structures, hardscape, planting, and circulation together so homeowners can understand the larger plan before building.

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Questions

Landscape Design in Orono, MN FAQs

Rare Landscapes provides landscape design and outdoor living services including 3D planning, pools, patios, outdoor kitchens, fire features, retaining walls, pergolas, pavilions, landscape lighting, saunas, screened porches, and complete property design.
Yes. Rare Landscapes can create a master plan that organizes multiple areas of a larger property, including entrances, outdoor rooms, pathways, pools, planting, structures, lighting, and gathering spaces.
Yes. Existing trees, grades, views, drainage, and circulation can all be considered during the landscape design process before patios, retaining walls, structures, or other major features are finalized.
Yes. Rare Landscapes uses 3D landscape design to help homeowners understand how the major elements of the property will relate before construction begins.
Begin with a consultation about the property, your priorities, desired features, and how you want to use the outdoor space. From there, Rare Landscapes can move into design, project definition, estimating, and construction planning.
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Contact Rare Landscapes to plan an outdoor environment around the full potential of your Orono property. Work directly with Will Archuleta to establish the layout, visualize the project in 3D, and create a clear plan before construction.

Location: Mound, Minnesota
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