Every package is a delivery. Fresh pumpkins, gourds, straw bales, and corn stalks arrive at your entry and get set down in the accessible area near your door.
What happens after that is yours, unless you add professional design; then a stylist arranges every piece before leaving. It's $125 to $250 depending on package, and it comes with The Estate.
Here's how to decide.
What you're buying
A stylist arranges the display to suit your entrance — placement, grouping, height, orientation, done by eye on site rather than to a template.
The final arrangement is at the stylist's discretion. If something isn't sitting right, minor adjustments are welcome within 3 days of the visit; substantial redesigns may carry an additional fee. Worth knowing before you add it, because "styled by eye" means somebody else's eye.
Add it if any of this is true
You won't be thereYou don't need to be home for delivery, but you do need to be home to arrange it. If your window lands during a work trip, the materials sit where they were set until you get to them.
Lifting is a problemStraw bales are heavy and awkward to carry; a jumbo statement pumpkin is worse. If repeated lifting isn't realistic, this is the add-on that matters most.
You bought The ManorAt 4 straw bales, 3 corn stalk bundles, 56 to 72 pumpkins and gourds, and 4 mums, arranging stops being an afternoon's work. There's real composition involved — several groupings at several heights, balanced across a wide entry.
Your porch is unusualWraparounds, split entries, deep recesses, asymmetrical facades. These are the shapes where the right arrangement isn't obvious, and a stylist has solved them before.
Somebody else sees it firstA gift recipient, a buyer at an open house, a photographer. You want it right on the first try.
Skip it if any of this is true
You bought The Welcome and you'll be home. One bale, one bundle, and 26 to 32 pieces is a manageable afternoon for one person.
You already know what you want. Some people order precisely because they enjoy this part, and if you have a picture in your head, a stylist's judgment may not match it.
Your budget is tight and your porch is simple. On a standard stoop the $125 buys more display as an extra straw bale and an extra corn stalk bunch than it does as labor.
A test that usually settles it
The materials are identical either way. Professional design buys the labor and the eye, not more pumpkins.
So: if the thought of the display sitting unarranged for three days would bother you, add it. If you'd enjoy spending a Saturday on it, don't.
What it isn't
Professional design is a single visit at delivery. It isn't ongoing maintenance and it isn't a mid-season refresh — we don't offer one. Once it's arranged, the display is yours to live with for the season.
If you want the materials taken away when fall ends, that's season removal, and it's a separate add-on chosen at checkout.
Professional design is $125 to $250 by package, one click at checkout, and included with The Estate.