The best room in the house has no roof at all.
Architectural pools, pavilions, outdoor kitchens, and courtyards — designed as rooms of the house, with the same drawings, budget discipline, and craft as everything under the roof.
Charlotte gives you nine months. Take them.
From March to November, this city wants to be lived in outdoors. Yet most backyards are an afterthought — a deck from one contractor, a pool from another, a kitchen island from a catalog, none of it sharing a line or a level. The result feels assembled, because it was.
We design outdoor environments the way we design houses: in plan, in section, and in light. The pool aligns to the axis of the hall it is seen from. The pavilion’s roof pitch answers the main house. Stone runs through the threshold without a height change, so the terrace reads as the next room rather than a destination. Heaters, fans, screens, and lighting scenes are engineered in from the start — which is why our clients use these spaces in February.
Outdoor commissions are taken both within full-home projects and as standalone transformations of established properties, where mature trees and existing grades become the first lines of the design.
A. Architectural Pools
Perimeter-overflow and classical pools engineered in-house — structural shell, equipment vaults, automated covers, and water lit from beneath like the surface of dark glass.
B. Pavilions & Loggias
True post-and-beam structures with fireplaces, heaters, and concealed screens — detailed to the same drawing standard as the main house, because they are part of it.
C. The Outdoor Kitchen
Masonry-built cooking suites: gas and live-fire stations, refrigeration, weatherproof cabinetry, and prep space placed so the host never turns their back on the table.
D. Courtyards & Gardens
Entry courts, specimen plantings, and garden rooms composed with our landscape collaborators — structure evergreen, color seasonal, irrigation and lighting invisible.
E. Fire & Water
Fire tables, linear burners, fountains, and spas — the two oldest luxuries, detailed with modern engineering and placed where they pull people out of the house at dusk.
The dining terrace at the Foxcroft Courtyard House seats fourteen under heaters — used fifty-one weeks last year.
We built the pool for the kids. Then we discovered the adults never go inside anymore.
