Pools, native gardens, outdoor kitchens, hardscape — built by someone who actually knows this soil, this climate, and this city.
Upload a photo. Get 3 concept directions plus Mirka's expert notes on what actually thrives in DFW.
Upload your backyard photo →Every project balances beauty, function, and a brutal honesty about what actually thrives in North Texas.
Full outdoor transformation anchored by native Texas plants that survive our summers and winters. Beauty that earns its water.
Learn more →Patios, walkways, retaining walls, driveways. Stone that draws the eye, geometry that routes the rain, materials that wear right.
Learn more →From resort-scale to architectural reflecting pools. Designed in context — your yard, your light, your trade-offs.
Learn more →Kitchens, pergolas, fire features, landscape and holiday lighting. Where the design earns its keep at 8pm in July.
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The difference between a good designer and a great one is knowing what happens in August, in January, and during the next hard freeze.
The February 2021 freeze killed 70% of the Italian Cypress, most tropicals, and a lot of landscapers' reputations. We know what made it and what didn't — and we only spec what did.
Plano clay. Southlake caliche. Flower Mound loam. Each neighborhood has its own subsoil story, and our plant palette shifts accordingly. No one-size-fits-all.
We've walked pool permits through Dallas, Plano, and Frisco. We know the fence-height rules in Highland Park and the native-plant exemptions in Southlake. You don't have to learn any of it.
Mirka Chodakova built Chodak Design around a simple idea: outdoor spaces should be beautiful and actually work in the city they're built in. After years designing landscape and pool projects across North Texas, she's the designer homeowners call when they want something personal, specific, and built to last through the next decade of DFW weather.
She does the design. She meets every client. She walks every site. There's no outsourcing to someone who's never seen black clay.
"Mirka was the third designer we talked to and the only one who asked to walk the yard in afternoon sun. Everything she specced is thriving. Two years in, I'm still finding flowers I didn't know we'd planted."
"We had a contractor who was going to put Italian Cypresses along our driveway. Mirka stopped us. Bless her. The Eastern Red Cedars she chose instead survived the freeze and still anchor the entrance."
"She designed our pool, our outdoor kitchen, and the landscape around them, and they look like they were done at the same time by the same person. That never happens."
Dream Your Yard takes 60 seconds and gives you three concept directions — plus Mirka's expert notes on your specific yard. Free. No strings.
