 First-place
winner of the 1996 California Landscape Contractors Association
statewide award for residential renovation, this Layfayette
residence features streams of handset Mexican pebbles
flowing through the patios and around the new swimming
pool. Landscape architect Chuck McCulloch called for patios
that were created from multi-level river wash stones which
Dan Fix set on concrete bases so they would remain in
place solidly. Large river-washed boulders stand as silent
sentinals in the perennial borders arching around green
lawns. The footpaths curve around young trees and red-foliage
shrubs which create a sense of changing seasons. The paths
are made of more river-washed stones stablized in dark
constrasting decomposed granite. The slide-show below
shows the masonry and landscaping work in progress.
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