Early in the spring I was asked to design a more favorable entry to my client’s Litchfield county property. The house was a new construction on property that featured towering pines and aging red maples. I realized that the large trunks of the pine trees could be utilized as a strong architectural feature – but the approach seemed much too barren and open. The access needed to be made secret and hidden, while complimenting the rural charater of the area. Post construction, the drive looked like this:
The goal was to provide a warm and inviting landscape that would blend with the surrounding native woodlands. Taking advantage of the favorable “swoop” of the drive, we smoothed its outline and topdressed with a salt-n-pepper ornamental gravel. By incoporating large, un-sheared hemlocks under the existing pines, and adding soft-textured viburnum and finely textured spirea, the feel of the approach was completely transformed.
