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Landscape Design · Granite Bay, CA

Estate-scale landscapes

for estate-scale lots.

Granite Bay's half-acre to multi-acre parcels invite — and

require — a different scale of landscape thinking. Long sight

lines, axial design, multi-room outdoor environments

composed for both ceremony and Tuesday night.

Folsom Lake Foothills · Estate Country · 10 miles · ~15 min from Rocklin

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Landscape Design · Granite Bay, CA

Estate-scale landscapes

for estate-scale lots.

Granite Bay's half-acre to multi-acre parcels invite — and

require — a different scale of landscape thinking. Long sight

lines, axial design, multi-room outdoor environments

composed for both ceremony and Tuesday night.

Folsom Lake Foothills · Estate Country · 10 miles · ~15 min from Rocklin

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Local Practice · Granite Bay

The studio behind
every Granite
Bay project.

Granite Bay is where our design-build practice does its most ambitious work — estates with the room to support pavilions, cascading water features, and professional driveways drawn at a true architectural scale.

Michael's 35+ years of work in this corridor means we know which contractors to coordinate with on which streets, which arborists understand the heritage oak inventory, and which hardscape proportions carry on a 200-foot front elevation.

Explore the four disciplines of our design-build practice — every Granite Bay engagement draws from all of them.

Why Granite Bay Is Different

01

Multi-acre composition

We design in axes and view corridors — every element placed to be discovered from a sequence, not just glanced at from a sidewalk.

02

Heritage oak inventory

Most Granite Bay lots inherit valley oaks and blue oaks worth more than the entire built improvement. We design around them — never the other way.

03

Equestrian & vineyard tie-ins

Pasture edges, vineyard rows, and chicken architecture are routine elements of our Granite Bay scope sheets.

Neighborhoods We Know

From Our Studio

10 miles · ~15 min from Rocklin from the Lavish Gardens studio in Rocklin. Most Granite Bay projects receive weekly on-site design walks during the build phase — proximity that shows up in the finished work.

Local Practice · Granite Bay

The studio behind
every Granite
Bay project.

Granite Bay is where our design-build practice does its most ambitious work — estates with the room to support pavilions, cascading water features, and professional driveways drawn at a true architectural scale.

Michael's 35+ years of work in this corridor means we know which contractors to coordinate with on which streets, which arborists understand the heritage oak inventory, and which hardscape proportions carry on a 200-foot front elevation.

Explore the four disciplines of our design-build practice — every Granite Bay engagement draws from all of them.

Why Granite Bay Is Different

01

Multi-acre composition

We design in axes and view corridors — every element placed to be discovered from a sequence, not just glanced at from a sidewalk.

02

Heritage oak inventory

Most Granite Bay lots inherit valley oaks and blue oaks worth more than the entire built improvement. We design around them — never the other way.

03

Equestrian & vineyard tie-ins

Pasture edges, vineyard rows, and chicken architecture are routine elements of our Granite Bay scope sheets.

Neighborhoods We Know

From Our Studio

10 miles · ~15 min from the Lavish Gardens studio in Rocklin. Most Granite Bay projects receive weekly on-site design walks during the build phase — proximity that shows up in the finished work.

Services in Granite Bay

The four disciplines, calibrated for
Granite Bay.

Hardscape Design and Construction in Granite Bay

Hardscape & Masonry ↗

Hardscape Design & Construction · Granite Bay

Terraces, walls, and pavements engineered to a 50-year standard — drawn, specified, and built by a single studio.

Water & Light ↗

Water Features & Ponds · Granite Bay

Cascading waterfalls, koi ponds, and architectural basins designed as the garden's gravitational center.

Outdoor Living ↗

Outdoor Living Environments · Granite Bay

Kitchens, fireplaces, and shaded pavilions designed as architectural extensions of the home — not afterthoughts on the patio.

Sustainable Design ↗

Luxury Xeriscaping · Granite Bay

Sculptural natives, decomposed granite paths, and water-smart sophistication — the antithesis of gravel-and-yucca xeriscape.

Granite Bay Questions

What homeowners ask before we start.

Yes — this is core to our practice. Our largest engagements have spanned 3+ acres including pavilions, pools, multi-tier waterfalls, vineyard borders, and lit driveways. Single studio, single point of accountability.

Routinely. We sit at the same table from schematic design — Michael draws the landscape envelope, the pool builder drops in the vessel, the architect details the pavilion. No handoff, no finger-pointing.

Arborist-mapped critical root zones, fenced-off no-equipment zones, hand-dug excavation within the drip line, and pier-supported hardscape that doesn't compact root mass. It's slower; it's the only way that's defensible.

We follow CalFire defensible-space zoning — Zone 0 hardscape and inert mulch within 5 ft of structures, low-fuel xeriscape Zone 1 to 30 ft, and managed canopy beyond. Our plant palette is screened for ignitability.