Walkways in Hollis, New Hampshire.

Designers keep sending us Southern NH 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.

Hollis is a right-to-farm orchard town whose back roads are lined with two-century-old dry walls — that vernacular is the brief for anything we build here.

Whether we are matching an existing patio or drawing a new entrance from scratch — often for a Jonathan Keep Landscape Design landscape — the Hollis walk is built to lead the eye exactly where it should go.

Two properties on the same Hollis street can differ by a third in price, and it is almost never the stone. It is access for machines, the base depth sandy loam over 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.

A walkway is the first handshake a house gives, and in Hollis it takes the hardest freeze-thaw punishment of anything we build. Set on sandy loam over stony till, well drained on the orchard slopes, a front walk needs even more base and drainage discipline than a patio — which is exactly how we build it, to stay flat and trip-free for the long haul.

We lay out curves, landings, and step transitions so the approach across apple orchards and wooded rural lots on gentle hills feels composed: generous at the entry, comfortable underfoot, and lit for arriving after dark.

The yards we buy from are regional and long-standing, which is how we can match an existing wall or terrace years later. In Hollis that continuity matters — the antique farmhouses and custom homes on farm acreage here tends to get added to over time, not replaced.