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Our own work.

Every picture here is our own work, off our own public gallery. None of it is stock and none of it is a catalogue shot. The captions describe what is in the frame and nothing else.

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A paver driveway in tan and brown curving up to a stone-and-brick house, with a planted bed on the turn — Curved approach in tan and brown
Driveways
The drive swings rather than running straight at the garage, and the outer course is cut to follow that curve instead of being stepped around it.

A wide paver driveway running the full frontage of a brick house, with a young tree and a planted bed let into one side — Full frontage to a brick house
Driveways
A banded border runs the whole perimeter, which is what keeps a drive this wide from reading as an open field of paving.

A paver drive and entry apron in front of a two-story brick and stucco house, laid up to the step at the front door — Drive and entry apron
Driveways
Drive and entry are laid as one surface in one pattern, so there is no seam where the parking area becomes the walk to the door.

A large paver driveway in mixed tan and gray running the width of the frame toward a house set behind trees — Wide drive in mixed tones
Driveways
Mixed tones across the field rather than a single color, which hides the variation that shows up on any drive this size.

A curving paver run in red, tan and cream, swinging between a lawn and a bed of palms — Banded curve
Walkways
The band follows the curve on both sides. Cutting a band to a radius is slower than running it straight, and it is the detail that makes the curve deliberate.

A gray paver walkway curving across a lawn toward the street, with palms and a clipped hedge along one side — Walk to the street
Walkways
Laid on the line people already walk rather than square to the house, and wide enough for two.

A broad paver driveway in tan and gray curving away past a clipped lawn edge, with a darker border course around it — Broad drive past a clipped edge
Borders & banding
The lawn is cut hard to the paving. A drive holds its line for years; the edge beside it is what usually goes soft.

A paver drive and apron in front of a pale stucco house, with planting along one edge — Approach to a stucco house
Steps & entries
Laid to fall away from the building, so water leaves the frontage instead of standing against the wall.

A gray paver patio with a circular medallion set into the middle and a red border course, with a table, chairs and a cream umbrella, backed by woodland — Medallion patio in the trees
Patios
The medallion is centered on where the table actually sits, and the field is sized so a pulled-out chair still has paving under all four legs.

A paver patio at the back of a white house, running up to a screened porch with a white balcony above — Patio to a screened porch
Patios
The paving runs right up to the porch step, so there is no strip of worn grass between the two.

A round fire pit alight at dusk, ringed by wooden Adirondack chairs on a pale paver patio, with a lit house and pool behind — Fire pit at dusk
Fire pits
The chairs sit back from the rim rather than crowded against it, which is the difference between a fire pit that gets used and one that does not.

A round stone fire pit with a flat cap on a paver patio, inside a low curved seat wall, with open water behind — Fire pit and seat wall on the water
Fire pits
The seat wall is capped flat and at sitting height, so it does the job of furniture without any being brought out.

A square stone fire pit alight on a paver patio, with a wicker chair pulled up beside it and planting behind — Square fire pit, lit
Fire pits
Square suits a rectangular patio and a straight seat wall better than a circle does. Both shapes are in their work.

An outdoor kitchen built in gray block with a stone counter and two built-in appliances, its downlights on under flat overcast light — Lit outdoor kitchen
Outdoor kitchens
Lighting is built into the structure rather than added afterward, which is a decision that has to be made before the block goes down.

The same outdoor kitchen at dusk, the counter and appliance faces lit from above — The same kitchen at dusk
Outdoor kitchens
The same build as the frame before it, shot at dusk. Lighting set into the counter face is why it is usable after sunset.

A stone grill surround with a stainless gas grill set into one side and a red ceramic cooker set into the other, on a tan paver patio — Grill surround with a ceramic cooker
Outdoor kitchens
The ceramic cooker sits in a masonry cut-out sized to it. The gas grill beside it is a freestanding cart rolled into the gap, not a built-in.

A block seat wall in tan stone, capped flat and wrapping a paver patio, with a red ceramic cooker set into the masonry and a freestanding gas grill beside it — The same kitchen, seat wall end
Seat walls
One structure doing two jobs: it retains the edge of the patio and carries the cooking run along the same line. Same property as the three frames above.

A swimming pool with a paver deck run around it in tan and brown, a low coping course at the waterline and open water beyond the fence — Paver deck on the water
Pool decks
The deck falls away from the pool, so what runs off the paving does not run back over the coping and into the water.

Wide travertine steps in cream running down in shallow rises beside white columns toward a pool — Travertine steps to the pool
Travertine & flagstone
Shallow equal rises and treads deep enough for a whole foot, which matters more beside a pool than anywhere else in a yard.

A broad paver deck running out to a white rail and open water, with a roofed cedar pavilion standing on it — Pavilion on the paver deck
Pool decks
The footings went in while the ground was still open. Fixing a structure to a finished surface afterward is the compromise this avoids.

An irregular flagstone patio in gray and cream, the pieces cut and fitted to each other, running through a planted bed to a hot tub — Flagstone to a hot tub
Travertine & flagstone
Every piece is cut to its neighbors on site. It is the slowest surface here to lay and the one that sits most naturally in planting.

A board privacy fence in new timber with a matching gate hung in it on black strap hinges — Board fence and gate
Fences & gates
The gate posts are the heavy ones. A fence line stays put; the gate is the part that moves several times a day and drops if its post is undersized.

An open-rafter pergola at night, uplit from its timber posts, over a curved seat wall and an unlit stone fire pit — Pergola lit at night
Pergolas & Pavilions
Uplighting set into the timber posts, with a curved seat wall and a stone fire pit inside them.

A close view of a timber gate showing the black strap hinge and the latch hardware set into the boards — Gate hardware
Fences & gates
Strap hinges sized to the weight of the leaf. This is the detail that decides whether a gate still latches in three years.

About these captions

No prices, no timelines, no names.

A photograph cannot tell you what a job cost or how long it took, and nothing on record says either. So this page does not guess. What it can tell you is what was built and how it was laid, and that is what the captions do.

There is no before and after anywhere on this site, and that is not an oversight. Every photograph here is finished work, shot after the crew left. A before and after needs two frames taken from one position, and there is no such pair in what they have published. Next job, someone should shoot the yard from one spot before the machines arrive and again when it is done.

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Our own work.

Curved approach in tan and brown

Full frontage to a brick house

Drive and entry apron

Wide drive in mixed tones

Banded curve

Walk to the street

Broad drive past a clipped edge

Approach to a stucco house

Medallion patio in the trees

Patio to a screened porch

Fire pit at dusk

Fire pit and seat wall on the water

Square fire pit, lit

Lit outdoor kitchen

The same kitchen at dusk

Grill surround with a ceramic cooker

The same kitchen, seat wall end

Paver deck on the water

Travertine steps to the pool

Pavilion on the paver deck

Flagstone to a hot tub

Board fence and gate

Pergola lit at night

Gate hardware

No prices, no timelines, no names.

Yours would be the next one on this page.