Sparkles Home Improvement & Landscaping

We used Sparkles to convert our backyard in Brooklyn from a dying muddy sod to a clean modern rock garden – just in time for the Summer too. We positively love it, as it is now maintenance free and looks super polished! James and Crew were incredibly polite and a pleasure to work with. From the beginning they took the time to truly understand what our goals were with the project and patiently dealt with us as we had lots of questions. I would highly recommend them and look forward to working with them again on other future projects. I also very much liked that they are a family owned and operated team… It really does make a difference in my opinion. Thanks again guys!

I read the reviews of Sparkles and I was very excited to use them to help us clean out the bamboo in our backyard. At first they were very responsive, but when we went to book them for the job, suddenly they stopped responding to any calls or emails. If they no longer wanted the job that’s fine but I wish they would have at least sent me a note to let me know. In the time I wasted waiting for them to get back to me, many other places are now booked.

I’m very late in posting my review for Sparkles, but better late than never, right?
We bought our home 2 years ago and one of the selling points was the size of our yard. It’s huge for Queens standards and we saw so much potential but needed some direction as well as a company that could work within our budget. We had several landscaping companies come and give us these wonderfully over the top ideas & suggestions while knowing our budget. A few days later we’d hear from them and get a crazy estimate that would be 2−3x higher than what we were wiling to spend.
I actually found Sparkles on Unilocal.I loved the pictures that were posted and called James to come check out the yard. He was super professional, very personable and was able to create our vision within our budget. He took our 2 problem areas (circular patio area that once housed an above ground pool & a patch of sloped dirt and helped us create our little oasis. Now we have a nice, neat lawn and a circular sitting area with step stones and pebbles in addition to our dining area. The transformation is amazing. Any additional sod was used in the surrounding areas and he used some random big stones that were already there to create a design element & pull the whole yard together.
The actual work was done by James, his son, and his wife, Angel. They were gracious, professional and hardworking. The work was completed in 1 day but it was scheduled for 2. Once they realized that a few more hours would mean completion, they went into overdrive.
The result exceeded our expectations. We are so happy with everything.

These guys renewed my faith in humanity. They came in and spent all day to get my front and back yards into incredible shape — all for very reasonable price. Just when I thought it’s impossible to get anything reasonably priced in Brooklyn, these guys exceeded any expectations — this hasn’t happened in a while. I high recommend this business and wish them all the best. They are on my speed dial!

After seeing their page on Facebook, I hired Sparkles to do our front yard and backyard, which were overgrown with weeds and really messy.
Best decision I’ve made in a long time.
James, Angel, and James from Sparkles spent the time and went the extra mile to not only clear the overgrowth and clean things up, but made it look beautiful.
Out of the weeds in my backyard, they discovered quite a few beautiful orange and purple wildflowers, and a huge rosemary bush! Most landscapers would probably just tear them out and start all over, but Sparkles saw the opportunity: they collected the flowering plants and re-​planted them in a row on the side of our house, and left the bush, which now gives our previously hopeless-​looking backyard some shape and inspiration.
This was all done without spending any extra money to purchase new plants. They took what we had and created the beginnings of an impressive landscape. They also went the extra mile by removing the weeds in the cracks of our sidewalk. It looks like a totally different house. I’m already dreaming of all the cool stuff we could do next.
Angel and the Jameses (hey, that’s kind of a cool band name!) were full of useful information and ideas. I was very pleased to find that their approach to weed control is very consistent with mine: they make their own weed killer and don’t use glyphosate-​based weed killers, but rather a combination of salts, herbicidal soap, and vinegar, which is very powerful and effective WITHOUT causing cancer.
I was so glad that I called Sparkles, and I wish that I’d known about them a couple years ago. They’re environmentally friendly, have a great eye for landscaping, and are just good, honest people who do great work. They’re what a family business should be. Amazingly, they are also quite reasonably priced!
Needless to say, I’ll be hiring Sparkles as my landscaper from now on, and will hire them for home improvement work as well.
They’ve changed my belief that it was impossible to find someone honest and reasonably priced in Brooklyn to do work on my house.
Sparkles, you rock. Everyone else, please be more like Sparkles.

Last summer I had a BBQ coming up and my backyard looked horrific. My neighbors have a berry tree which stretches into my yard dropping berries everywhere. I also had a lot of weeds grown up. I went searching on the internet for someone in my area to come out and clean my backyard. James and his crew did a fantastic job cutting up all of the limbs, pulling up weeds and trimming the bushes. Not only did they do a fantastic job in my backyard they also trimmed my bushes in the front yard for a very affordable price!!! I will be using their services again this year. This is their facebook page
Sorry for the late review