We will create a design that is perfectly suited to your desires and your site. And then we’ll build it. Perhaps you’d like to expand your living spaces to the outdoors and create a patio or terrace. Maybe you just need a bit more room for the kids and the dog to run around in. Or maybe what you really want is escape after the workday: you dream of an oasis of plants and calming water. Whatever your dream, whatever your budget, our expert designers are eager to listen. Let us take your dreams and turn them into reality!


Artistic Lighting

A struggle against darkness confronts many of us during our morning and evening commutes, especially in the fall and winter. A look out the kitchen window into the predawn morning yields cold blackness. Or, if your garden or property is artistically lit, the view may be of a Crape Myrtle, its vase-like silhouette tossed up against a wall. Perhaps step lights and pathway lights lead your eye to the driveway like beads on a necklace. A pond shines emerald and green from an underwater light near the still and sleeping lilies. Now the dark nights and early mornings are pleasant. Low voltage lighting brighten larger areas and keep your property secure. Whether it is for safety or enjoyment, your (well-lit) viewpoint is what matters..


Landscapes + Gardens

A gravel path leads to a garden gate. Step along it. Listen to the crunching sound of your feet. When you reach the gate, open it. What do you see? The world before you may be a woodland garden that echoes the hills and streams of the Virginian wilderness beyond or it may be a parterre garden with a brick patio that complements your colonial house. Perhaps your townhome garden simply needs some extra definition to give it privacy from the neighbors or the rolling grounds of your property need to be contoured to drain away swampy areas. Whatever the landscape issue or need, and whether your landscape is expansive or pocket-sized, we will help you step into the world of your choosing.


Water Features

Skip rocks on a pond or watch water slide in sheets over a black cube of stone. Listen to drops fall, one by one slow drop (ping) into a moist grotto. A wall fountain nearby bubbles or a waterfall rushes next to the lap pool. Perhaps there is no sound at all but rather the echo of sound as when you sit next to a reflecting pool whose depths are as unknowable as the seeping waters of Hades. Whatever your preference, we can add a measure of delight and peace by creating water features that are both clean and easy to care for.


Hardscapes + Structures

Walls of stone, patios of brick, walkways, paths, gates and gazebos all add functionality to your garden or landscape. Now you can have a cocktail party on the pool terrace or have an intimate conversation in the gazebo. Your morning coffee and newspaper are more enjoyable on a patio where you can hear birdsongs and chipmunks. A game of catch on the grass is possible now that your lawn is made level by retaining walls. Sit with a good book under a pergola festooned with climbing roses or roast marshmallows over a warming fire. What is the common element of all these outdoor rooms? The answer is properly built hardscapes and structures, which, when incorporated wisely into your landscape, look as though they’ve always been there.