The Creemore House

This Victorian brick home sits right in the village of Creemore — the kind of house that demands stone that belongs there. No shortcuts, no modern materials that stick out. It needed to be real.

To make it work, we had to build it up — armourstone retaining walls front and back, with serious fill behind them to create usable space. At the rear, a full terraced retaining system climbed the grade all the way up to deck level. A lot of stone. A lot of work moving fill and getting the structure right so it wouldn't shift or settle.

Natural stone steps tie it together — they climb from the street up to the porch, then more steps from there working their way up the back. It's a staircase that becomes part of the landscape instead of fighting against it.

The home builder liked it enough to put it in their own advertising. I'll take that as a compliment.

The stone looks just as good in January.