Our Story
How we got started
Long ago, prior to founding Clearview Landscaping, Chris Hulme first began serving Goleta and Santa Barbara home owners with home improvement services in the mid to late ’80’s.
What started out as a way for Chris to scrape together enough money to buy a little Honda 50cc motorcycle when he was in grade school has in many ways blossomed into Santa Barbara’s premier landscaping contractor. In the early 90’s Chris had already expanded from one-off jobs like stump removal, aluminum can recycling, gravel driveway raking, car washing, window cleaning, pressure washing, painting, and random yard work to an established, weekly landscape maintenance route with several of his neighbors – several of whom lived overseas and trusted him with the care of their properties for months at a time. Chris’s first “employee” was his next door neighbor, a childhood friend who he put in charge of his lawn mowing route while on vacation with his family one summer at Lake Powell. Coming home to see the work done, making a little extra on top of what he paid his friend, was very satisfying to him, and changed his mindset forever.
Fast forward to the early 2000’s, Chris founded the original Santa Barbara Clearview to help his brothers, their friends, and himself earn money and pay for college education. Being the oldest of 4 boys, it was only natural for each of his younger brothers to follow in his footsteps and help support the growth of business while also saving for their own tuition expenses. By the late 2000’s, each of Chris’s brothers and friends had moved on to other career paths leaving the business more in the hands of Chris and his sweet wife Jen, a highly regarded CPA and exceptionally bright UCSB grad. Needless to say, Chris and Jen have learned to balance their unique talents and roles quite well over the years, and have raised three delightful girls along the way. Also considered family, the Hulme’s have been very fortunate to attract and fulfill projects with incredibly talented and detail oriented local trade professionals.
And now, with well over 20 years delivering quality and excellence, Clearview employs nearly 30 individuals who each help support their own local families. Our team is sincerely grateful to all the individuals living within the Santa Barbara community who have continually shown appreciation for our services over the years. Feeling valued for our efforts to improve and maintain all the incredible properties we have been fortunate enough to work on is a sensation like no other, one we continue to strive for in all our work today.
Our Story
How we got started
Long ago, prior to founding Clearview Landscaping, Chris Hulme first began serving Goleta and Santa Barbara home owners with home improvement services in the mid to late ’80’s.
What started out as a way for Chris to scrape together enough money to buy a little Honda 50cc motorcycle when he was in grade school has in many ways blossomed into Santa Barbara’s premier landscaping contractor. In the early 90’s Chris had already expanded from one-off jobs like stump removal, aluminum can recycling, gravel driveway raking, car washing, window cleaning, pressure washing, painting, and random yard work to an established, weekly landscape maintenance route with several of his neighbors – several of whom lived overseas and trusted him with the care of their properties for months at a time. Chris’s first “employee” was his next door neighbor, a childhood friend who he put in charge of his lawn mowing route while on vacation with his family one summer at Lake Powell. Coming home to see the work done, making a little extra on top of what he paid his friend, was very satisfying to him, and changed his mindset forever.
Fast forward to the early 2000’s, Chris founded the original Santa Barbara Clearview to help his brothers, their friends, and himself earn money and pay for college education. Being the oldest of 4 boys, it was only natural for each of his younger brothers to follow in his footsteps and help support the growth of business while also saving for their own tuition expenses. By the late 2000’s, each of Chris’s brothers and friends had moved on to other career paths leaving the business more in the hands of Chris and his sweet wife Jen, a highly regarded CPA and exceptionally bright UCSB grad. Needless to say, Chris and Jen have learned to balance their unique talents and roles quite well over the years, and have raised three delightful girls along the way. Also considered family, the Hulme’s have been very fortunate to attract and fulfill projects with incredibly talented and detail oriented local trade professionals.
And now, with well over 20 years delivering quality and excellence, Clearview employs nearly 30 individuals who each help support their own local families. Our team is sincerely grateful to all the individuals living within the Santa Barbara community who have continually shown appreciation for our services over the years. Feeling valued for our efforts to improve and maintain all the incredible properties we have been fortunate enough to work on is a sensation like no other, one we continue to strive for in all our work today.
Real numbers, real hard work, and real blessings from continual faith in God
29
Team Members
2001
Year Founded
49k+ Tons
of Earth & Material moved
4150+
Projects completed
$510+ Million
of dollars of value
added to homes
11,000+
Tacos consumed
“Don’t fear the man who knows 1,000 techniques. But fear the man that has practiced one technique 1,000 times.” – Bruce Lee
Why choose Clearview Landscaping
While we operate this business to support our families, it’s also a labor of love. We love the outdoors and how it offers the opportunity to bring family and friends closer to together right in your own yard. While our clients have plenty to say about our work and how we treat them, I’d love to share why I think we’re your best choice.
We’ve been in this business for over 20 years, we know what works. I can’t tell you how much easier your life will be if you choose a team that can see the project from the ideation and design phase all the way to the very end. It means there’s one team who takes complete ownership when things go right but also when things occasionally go awry. Instead of different contractors all pointing fingers when a pipe is broken, we take total ownership and step up.
Building your great American outdoor space also happens in phases just like your home. The success of each phase of the build depends on the preceding phases. For example, the longevity and health of your plants and trees depends on how well the grading and irrigation system was designed and laid out weeks before. That’s why having one team with the big, complete picture is so critical.
Whether you’re working with our own in-house designer, Kim, our team manager, Kevin, or one of our incredibly talented construction supervisors, Rob, or Alex, we think you’ll be blown away by not only the quality of work and communication, but the way we treat you and how it makes you feel.
“Transforming your property is a carefully orchestrated sequence of deeply interconnected steps.
It takes vision to create beauty. Organization to deliver quality. Communication to maintain harmony. And unwavering integrity to respectfully manage your project from start to finish.
That’s why working with a single contractor like Clearview ensures success.”