Fire Features & Outdoor Living in Kittery, Maine.

Two properties on the same Kittery street can differ by a third in price, and it is almost never the stone. It is access for machines, the base depth granite ledge and thin soil calls for, how much water has to be managed, and whether existing planting has to be protected while we work.

You get an itemized scope after we walk the property — what is included, what is not, and where the money actually goes. No allowances that quietly become change orders halfway through.

A fire feature is what stretches a Kittery yard from two usable seasons to three. We lay the space out on site first — seat height, circle diameter, how far the chairs sit from the flame, and which way the wind carries smoke across rocky harbor points at the mouth of the Piscataqua — because geometry is what decides whether a fire pit gets used or ignored.

Only once that reads right do we set stone, wrapping the fire with seat walls and terrace so the whole space is designed around where people actually gather.

Kittery Point holds some of the oldest houses in Maine on open harbor ledge — period restraint and storm-grade construction, both at once.

The same crew builds the seat walls, the grill surround, the steps, and the terrace — in Kittery Point, Gerrish Island, and Seapoint and across town — so the stone matches and one company owns how the finished room reads.

A job in Kittery is a few weeks of trucks, machines, and people in your yard. We plan staging and protection before day one — drive plates, root-zone protection, a defined material area — and leave the site clean each evening rather than at the end.

A large share of our Maine work is executing drawings for landscape architects — reading elevations, holding the specified batter and joint, and flagging a conflict before it becomes a change order. Much of it in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design.