An extraordinary setting has become a gorgeous outdoor retreat for this family and their guests to enjoy.
The steep hillsides were terraced with stone retaining walls and large stone slabs were carefully brought in to create the serpentine stairs leading to waterfront terraces.
The resulting landscape setting is beautiful and also works to protect the environment.
Terraces and walks have been designed to allow water to soak into the soil and reduce harmful runoff into the lake. The wide joints and pebble grouting lets rainfall percolate into a gravel filter bed beneath the hard surfaces.
Silt runoff and pollutants are absorbed in the luxurious planting beds filled with herbaceous plantings featuring flowering perennials, grasses and shrubs.
Small flowering dogwoods, redbuds, and crepe myrtles are sprinkled through the large hardwoods adding flowers in spring and summer and gorgeous color in the fall.