The site design objective was to erase any evidence of this home’s speculative development origins. An ill conceived central axial driveway was removed by relocating the garage doors to its opposite side and establishing a separate service driveway to reveal a broad open front lawn. On the property’s opposing side, another driveway established a new visitor arrival experience. A low berm contoured along the road features a Juniper shrub mass to shield the property and define the driveway entrances.

A new pool house was sited within a newly conceived landscape vision for the pool area. HM White sculpted an existing Poplar forest to disclose distinct groves, accentuating their vertical clump character. Excess Poplars were transplanted to the front to frame the house and the arrival space. Native Red Cedar hedgerows line the property edges to improve privacy and provide a visually calm backdrop to the garden compositions. The garden’s uniqueness was drawn from the site’s original Poplar forest where the under planting of yellow flowering Hypericum establishes the garden’s repetitive meandering spatial order.