Landscape & Hardscape · Sunapee, NH
Landscape & Hardscape in Sunapee, New Hampshire.
Sunapee is steep lake frontage beneath Mount Sunapee with harbor and cove lots, and that shapes every decision here. We build landscape & hardscape on granite ledge and stony till, detailed for the shingled lake houses they sit beside — hand-set, drainage-first, and made to look like they were always part of the property.
Our footprint around Sunapee
Sunapee sits in Sullivan County, and most weeks we are somewhere in this pocket of Upper Valley — which means shorter travel, faster site visits, and a crew that already knows how ground behaves around here.
The honest numbers for Sunapee
Two properties on the same Sunapee 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 stony till 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.
The crew Sunapee designers trust
Lake Sunapee’s shoreland protection and steep lake lots make terracing and anchored retaining the core of the work — built into the ledge rather than onto it.
On full-site projects we are frequently the execution crew for landscape architects and designers — much of our Upper Valley work in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design. We read plans fluently, flag conflicts before they become change orders, and build exactly what was drawn.
Stone and softscape, together
Walls, patios, walkways, steps, and planting beds succeed when one crew builds them in the right sequence. We coordinate the hardscape and the softscape so the stone frames the plantings and the plantings soften the stone — tuned to the shingled lake houses, boathouses, and summer estates of Sunapee Harbor, Georges Mills, and Burkehaven and the wider Upper Valley.
It is the difference between a resolved landscape and two trades fighting over the same ground.
Working from a plan in Sunapee
Designers keep sending us Upper Valley work for one reason: what gets built matches what was drawn. We hold the spec, raise conflicts early, and document as we go — including on the Jonathan Keep Landscape Design projects throughout this portfolio.
Questions
Landscape & Hardscape in Sunapee, answered.
Usually, yes. We hand-select from regional yards to match color, cleft, and scale against what is already on the property — which matters in Sunapee, where the shingled lake houses tend to be added to over time rather than replaced.
Both. We can take a property from grading through final planting, or come in for the masonry scope alongside other trades. We will scope it whichever way serves the project.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds landscape & hardscape throughout Sunapee — from Sunapee Harbor, Georges Mills, and Burkehaven — and across Upper Valley, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across New Hampshire, and we build from architectural plans with millimeter precision.
Lake Sunapee’s shoreland protection and steep lake lots make terracing and anchored retaining the core of the work — built into the ledge rather than onto it. We handle the local checks that go with that as part of the project rather than leaving them to you.
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