The clients would like to replace the deck with an outdoor space that will flow from their new kitchen to the screen porch.

The deck has been removed and work begins to prepare the base for a new stone landing and patio.

The bluestone patio comes together.

Cutting the patio edge.

A sinuous curve.

An elegant stone landing framed with a Miscanthus grass begins the new pathway from kitchen to patio.

Oval bluestone steppers snake from patio to porch between fragrant shrubs and a paperbark maple.

The patio the following spring.