Serenity

Our landscape design services have been inspired by the three-dimensional textbook of historic landscapes that we encounter. For existing historic residential properties, our goals have been to capture the best of the old and design new elements to meet current owners needs that, when completed, look like they have always been part of the landscape. In some cases, this work has been directed at rejuvenating old or overgrown landscapes. In other cases, this work has been aimed at fitting new building construction into the landscape, adding universal access to a historic site, or designing new outdoor spaces to meet the needs of a growing family.

For new building construction, our designs have often been “period-inspired:” taking the design elements of a particular landscape period or style and using these in innovative new ways to complement the architecture of the residence. From shingle style summer estates to tiny seventeenth century capes, from narrow nineteenth century village lots to hundreds of acres of open farmland, our work has celebrated the best of our residential landscape history in these new designs.

In some cases, our work has extended to celebrating the native environment: indigenous plants, pre-existing topographic conditions, indigenous stone and soils, to create an environment that is wholly in keeping with the beauty of the natural scene. In other sites, our work has celebrated a blending of new and old, indigenous and introduced, in creating spaces that move easily from the woodland into the garden or from the modern into antiquity.

Our private and public design work has won the recognition of such notable groups as the New Hampshire Landscape Association, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and has been published in such well-known popular magazines as Colonial Homes, Victoria Magazine, Countryside Magazine, and others.