Stone patios, walls & walkways in Ashland, MA.

Yes. Ashland's conservation commission closely guards the Sudbury River corridor and the reservoir wetlands around Ashland State Park, so buffer setbacks and drainage carry any project — we build to that standard. And because the land here is sandy glacial outwash near the river giving way to till over ledge on the hills, so drainage swings from fast to slow across a single lot, we plan the base and drainage for those conditions from the first day on site.

Constantly. We routinely execute plans for landscape architects and designers, building to spec with millimeter precision — much of our work in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design.

The restored center-village Victorians from the old Telechron clockworks era alongside custom colonials and shingle-style homes on the wooded south side here set the direction, and rolling wooded uplands falling toward the Sudbury River and Ashland Reservoir, with hillside lots on Megunko and the town's higher ground sets the scale. That usually means hand-set fieldstone and bluestone detailed to look original to the house rather than applied to it.

A natural-stone patio typically runs $30–$60+ per square foot installed. In Ashland the swing usually comes from access and from how deep we have to excavate over sandy glacial outwash near the river giving way to till over ledge on the hills — you get an itemized scope after we walk the property.