The two-story coastal home features a sizeable rear patio with a fire table, swimming pool and spa that overlooks a freshwater pond. The exterior design emphasized integration with the home's surroundings and reinforcing local ecology. Invasive species were replaced with low-maintenance native plantings. Limestone terraces the color of beach sand weave past shadblow, American holly, and black cherry to reach the home's entrance above-grade. Highbush blueberry, inkberry, and groundsel shrubs were interspersed with Pennsylvania sedge and little bluestem grass groundcovers, with grace notes added by specimen bayberries.

This gorgeous modern home was constructed above-grade, with vast swathes of glass providing an uninterrupted view of the stunning surrounds. Buff-colored limestone stairs provide passage from the home to ground level. As protection from future storms, the landscape design included the construction of a new dune between house and ocean, stabilized with a planting of American beach grass.

This magnificent coastal home has a swimming pool and spa on an elevated patio overlooking the pond at the rear of the property. The residence was designed with the environment in mind — to conform to the natural characteristics of the site and to reinforce the local ecology. The landscaping portion of the project involved reconstructing the dune on the ocean side and replacing exotic and invasive species with attractive native plants that would enjoy the sandy soil conditions and require little maintenance.

The new house was built farther back from the beach and raised above grade, creating the potential for a disconnect between the building and landscape. Limestone terraces framed with seagrass provide an attractive approach that weaves visitors by small trees and shrubs. The use of limestone the color of the nearby beach sand extends the lines of the house, creating a strong visual sense of integration with its surroundings.