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Most of what is below on this page arrives on a single job. A pool comes with a pavilion and a kitchen. A patio comes with a fire feature already built into the layout. So instead of listing seven trades in alphabetical order, this page is grouped the way a real backyard is grouped: what sits closest to the house, what fills the space between the house and the fence, and what happens at the edges of the lot. Every one of them is drawn on the same site plan before anything is dug, and built by one licensed General Contractor with the State of Tennessee.
Backyard projects here often run $150,000 to $750,000 or more, managed from the first concept drawing through final construction. The first consultation is complimentary, and it starts with listening, not a pitch.
Zone one, the anchor
Gunite or fiberglass, decided against your actual site rather than picked off a brochure. A pool here is never drawn on its own: the spa, the water features, the automatic cover and the safety fencing are specified alongside the deck, the pavilion and the kitchen that will sit next to it, using builders named on our own project list including Imagine Pools, Thursday Pools, Latham Pools and a PebbleTech finish.
Because one contractor carries the whole build through final inspection, the pool equipment, the lighting run and the drainage around it are solved once, not three times by three different subcontractors who have never seen each other’s plans.
Swimming pools in detailThe roof is decided first, not last, because it decides whether the room actually works through a Tennessee July and a Tennessee downpour. Motorized louvered roofs, pavilion and gable roofs, screened-in porches, sunrooms, composite decks and pool pavilions, built as complete outdoor living environments rather than a deck with a ceiling fan bolted on.
Outdoor rooms in detail
Zone two, the gathering pieces
Between the anchor structure and the back fence sit the pieces that get used every single night: the kitchen you cook at, the patio you sit on, and the fire you gather around. All three are drawn together, because a fire pit dropped onto a finished patio and a fire pit designed with the seating circle from the start look nothing alike.
Kitchens
The grill run comes first, then the appliances around it: built-in grills from Alfresco, Artisan, Blaze and Lynx, stone and granite counters, refrigeration, ice, a sink and an egg cooker area, planned into the layout rather than added to it after the fact.
Read morePatios
Paver and natural stone patios in Techo Bloc and Belgard, cut to take the kitchen and the fire feature from the first drawing. The base and the drainage underneath are the part nobody sees and the part that decides how flat the patio still is in ten years.
Read moreFire
Fire pit or full masonry fireplace, the choice sets the seating geometry around it. Stone and brick masonry work, seating built into the design rather than furniture pushed at it afterward, and the lighting and planting tied in at the same time.
Read moreZone three, the edges
The last zone is the boundary of the property itself, and it runs in two directions at once: planting that screens the yard from the street and the neighbors, and, on shaded lots, a retreat built into whatever woods are already there.
Design and renovation, foundation plantings, garden beds, seasonal color, lighting plans, drainage solutions and full installation. Privacy screens are specified by species, not just “bushes”: Emerald Green and Green Giant Arborvitae, Skip Laurel, Taylor Juniper, Nellie Stevens Holly, Brodie Eastern Red Cedar and Columnar Hornbeam.
Landscaping in detailFor lots with shade already on them: Tennessee flagstone paths, dry creek beds, koi ponds and natural boulder outcroppings, worked with the trees that are already standing rather than cleared to make room for a lawn. Lit for the evening, because that is when the retreat actually gets used.
Woodland retreats in detailOne design-build contractor, licensed with the State of Tennessee and insured, managing every piece above from the first drawing through final construction. The first consultation is complimentary.