Honoring the farmhouse style architecture of the main house called for a landscape that would bring balanced composition to the site. The first phase of landscape began where only the swimming pool sat on axis with the main residence — the pool house structures wouldn’t be designed and built for several years. When the pool area was completed, a cedar pergola was built to connect the two pool houses and allow for dappled shade, a refuge from an otherwise exposed area.

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The landscape builds on the ‘elegant country’ style of the guest house and barn architecture with wide flagstones, stone walls, and custom designed gates that lead from garden areas into a central courtyard. Here, residents and their guests can gather around a robust fire ring. A potting shed leads to an orderly vegetable garden featuring an espalier apple tree and raised planting beds, while the view from the greenhouse is a quiet woodland garden. A new terrace and flagstone path at the main house seamlessly blend the existing home with the new addition.

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