Done Right Landscape & Construction

Done Right Landscape & Construction has been building and maintaining yards around Wakefield since 1980, when Bruce Aleo — still the owner and lead designer today — started the company; its stated service area covers Wakefield, Lynnfield, North Reading, Saugus, Reading, Stoneham, and Boston. Reviews on the company's Google page go back to 2015, and the sheer volume — 336 Google ratings averaging 4.9, a perfect 5.0 across 30 Houzz reviews, and an A+ Better Business Bureau grade — reflects a business with a long, well-documented run rather than a newer one riding a hot streak. Bruce himself is the throughline in nearly every account, from a 2022 review describing him arriving the morning after a desperate call left by a previous, unresponsive landscaper, through 2023's transformation of an overgrown 11,000-square-foot yard, to reviews from this year still crediting him personally for showing up when he said he would and following through. Response time comes up again and again as a specific strength: a 2025 review described an emergency lawn-removal request answered by voicemail within an hour and quoted the same day, with work starting the next morning, and another 2025 review described Bruce arriving immediately to advise on an erosion and drainage problem before building a multi-tiered retaining wall to fix it. The hardscape side shows up in specific accounts too, nearly all from 2025: a Techo-Bloc paver patio built with a fire pit and circular seating, a multi-tiered retaining wall built to solve that drainage and erosion problem, and a separate retaining-wall-and-stonework job praised for a quick response and fair pricing. A 2024 review described a full fence and gate replacement that started with clearing old vines and a chain-link fence. One reviewer, a wholesale plant provider who works with landscape companies professionally, described the attention to detail as setting the business apart within the trade. The one account that isn't uncomplicated praise, a 2025 four-star review, said a new patio and yard-leveling project took about a month because of weather and called the price a little high — though the same reviewer said it was worth it and was happy with the result. For full landscape design and hardscape construction — patios, retaining walls, fire pits, fencing — anywhere in the Wakefield-to-Boston corridor covered by its service area, this is about as established and consistently reviewed an operation as exists in the trade; the main thing worth confirming up front is timeline expectations for a larger project, since weather can stretch a multi-week job.