Steps & Stairs in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Stone varies wildly pallet to pallet, so we select it ourselves. In Greenwich, where the local character runs to stone-and-slate estates, getting the color and cleft right matters more than the grade printed on the invoice.

Two properties on the same Greenwich street can differ by a third in price, and it is almost never the stone. It is access for machines, the base depth glacial till over gneiss ledge 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.

Designers keep sending us Fairfield County 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.

Steps heave before anything else because they concentrate load on a small footprint. Set on glacial till over gneiss ledge, rocky on the backcountry grades, that risk is real — so we excavate below frost, compact a structural base, and bed each tread so it cannot rock, settle, or drift out of line through the winter.

Solid granite treads, stacked bluestone, or dry-set fieldstone risers each get a different build sequence, matched to the stone-and-slate estates, Georgian mansions, and shingle-style shore houses of the house they serve.

Greenwich backcountry estates set the national bar for residential stonework — full stone walls, gateposts, and terraces at a scale and finish that few crews ever build.

Steps rarely exist alone — we tie them into the walkway, wall, and terrace they connect, in the Backcountry, Belle Haven, and Riverside and across Greenwich, so the stair reads as part of the landscape rather than a separate purchase.