There is a special honor in being asked to design a returning client’s new homestead, especially when it is intended to be their Forever Home.

The family’s desire to enjoy the entire yard was answered by planning for both active and passive uses. The new garden’s floor plan offers outdoor kitchen, dining, lounging, and water garden amenities. Generous planting beds provide soft contrasts to the paving, preserving maximum growing space for the canopy tree roots. Masonry seat walls and a fire pit accent the home’s patterned Lannonstone, while a traditionally-styled garden fence assists evergreen and deciduous plantings in providing a softened framework of privacy about the garden. Above the heated in-ground spa, a wide-spanning pergola and Lannonstone garden wall frame an integrated water weir accent.

The open lawn beyond the terrace provides an active play area for visiting grandchildren, and serves as a foreground to the meandering woodland strolling garden which weaves through additional layers of evergreen, deciduous, and flowering plantings. Nighttime lighting extends the garden’s reaches into the evening hours, inviting the clients to enjoy their Forever Home for every season to come.


2012 ILCA Gold Award. Residential Design & Construction