Bigger lots, bigger back yards, and an HOA that will want to see the plan
Peachtree Corners is where our larger design-build jobs tend to be. Neely Farm’s 334 homes sit on 325 acres of what used to be a family farm, Amberfield and Peachtree Station have the deep back lots that were standard in the 1980s, and most of the city’s neighborhoods run through a swim-tennis HOA with an architectural review committee. We build the outdoor kitchens, paver patios, fire features and walls that go with those yards, and we’ve learned to hand an ARC a drawing they can approve the first time.
We’re based in Dunwoody, about twenty minutes down Holcomb Bridge. All of our equipment is electric and solar-charged, which the HOA will appreciate as much as you do during a three-week build.
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What we build in Peachtree Corners
Backyard makeovers and design-build. Patio, kitchen, fire feature, lighting, planting and drainage designed together and built in one sequence.
Paver and stone patios. Belgard and Techo-Bloc, bluestone, flagstone, permeable systems. Paver Patios
Outdoor kitchens and fire features. Built-in grills, counters, wood and gas fire pits and fireplaces. Outdoor Fire Pits
Retaining walls. Plans are required when a wall is over four feet; we produce them and file the permit. Retaining Walls
Drainage. Peachtree Corners has seven miles of Chattahoochee riverfront and the city’s floodplain office points out that more than a quarter of flood claims come from properties that aren’t in a mapped high-risk zone. Away from the river it’s the same red clay: French drains, downspout runs, catch basins, dry creek beds, and regrading. On anything that disturbs more than 5,000 square feet, the city requires the first inch of rainfall to be kept on site; permeable pavers and rain gardens are how we do that. Drainage and French Drains
Planting. Neely Farm is a certified bird sanctuary, the city is Tree City USA, and the Garden Club is planting the Town Center stream corridor with natives this fall. We plant the same palette: serviceberry, fringe tree, oakleaf hydrangea, beautyberry, butterfly weed, little bluestem.
Quiet electric lawn care and HOA common areas. Weekly and bi-weekly maintenance, fertilization, weed control and pest control with organic options, and common-area contracts for the swim-tennis neighborhoods. Commercial Maintenance
Peachtree Corners yards, specifically
HOA review. Nearly every neighborhood here has one. We provide a scaled drawing, material samples and a photo of a comparable finished project with every quote, because that’s what the ARC needs to say yes.
Trees. The city asks for a permit for any tree you want to remove, regardless of size, and caps removals at ten per property per year. Design goes around the trees.
The river corridor. Properties within 2,000 feet of the Chattahoochee fall under an extra review. We’ll tell you if you’re in it before you spend money on a design.
Land disturbance. Over 5,000 square feet needs a Land Development Permit and on-site rainfall retention. Most residential hardscape stays under that; a full back-yard regrade sometimes doesn’t.
Technology Park. The office campuses and the properties around Curiosity Lab are the commercial side of the city; quiet electric maintenance during business hours is the pitch there.
How a Peachtree Corners project actually runs
It starts with a free site visit, which is a walk round the property rather than a sales call. We look at where water sits, what the grade is doing, which trees are worth designing around, and what the back yard is actually used for. You get a written scope from that, broken into parts, so you can see what needs doing now and what can wait.
Then two approvals, and in this city they run on different clocks. The city’s side is a Land Development Permit once a project disturbs more than 5,000 square feet, with the requirement to retain the first inch of rainfall on site, plus a tree permit for any tree of any size up to ten per property per year. The other side is your neighbourhood. Peachtree Corners is strongly HOA and swim-tennis territory, and in Neely Farm, Amberfield, Peachtree Station and the streets around them an architectural review submission is a normal part of a hardscape project. It is worth starting that early, because it is usually the longest lead time in the whole job and it is the one we cannot file for you. Tell us at the site visit and we will put the drawings in the shape your committee wants.
On site we build in an order that does not need undoing: water first, then the shape of the ground, then hard surfaces, then planting, then lighting. On the bigger lots here that order matters more than it does on a small yard, because there is room for a project to sprawl and a phased plan is what keeps it coherent.
What it is like having our crew in your yard
Everything we run is battery powered and charges from a solar trailer. No generator running from first thing in the morning, no fuel stored on your property, no exhaust in a garden that children are going to be playing in. In a neighbourhood built around a pool and tennis courts, where half the street walks past your yard every evening, a quiet job site is worth something on its own.
We are honest about the limit. A plate compactor and a masonry saw are loud, and no battery version changes that. What goes away is the constant engine noise between the loud bits.
The planting side is where we differ most from a mow-and-blow contractor. Peachtree Corners is a Tree City USA and the city has been putting native planting into the Town Center stream corridor; we plant from the same Georgia Native Plant Society Piedmont list, which on these lots means oakleaf hydrangea, fothergilla and beautyberry in the shrub layer, serviceberry and fringe tree as understory, and river oats and Joe-pye weed where the ground stays damp near the river side of the city. Under the Georgia Water Stewardship Act outdoor watering runs 4 p.m. to 10 a.m., with new plantings exempt for thirty days and drip and hand-watering exempt any time, so we put new beds on drip wherever it makes sense.
Questions Peachtree Corners homeowners ask us
Will you deal with my HOA? Yes. We supply the drawing, material samples and comparable photos the ARC asks for, and we’ve been through the process in the swim-tennis neighborhoods before.
Do I need a permit for a retaining wall in Peachtree Corners? Plans are required over four feet, and we file them with the city.
Can you fix a yard that floods from the street? Yes. Interceptor drains at the property line, catch basins, and a discharge point are the usual solution; the city’s own bioswale project on Bankers Industrial Drive is the same idea at a larger scale.
Can I take out trees for the project? With a city permit, up to ten a year. We design around the ones worth keeping.
Is electric equipment strong enough for a big build? Yes. Commercial battery compactors, saws and excavation tools, recharged from the solar panels on the trailer.
Do you serve all of Peachtree Corners? Yes: Neely Farm, Amberfield, Peachtree Station, Spalding Corners, the Forum area, Technology Park and the river neighborhoods.
Nearby
Peachtree Corners is the far end of our circle. The middle of it is Dunwoody, and we are in Doraville, Chamblee, Brookhaven and Sandy Springs most weeks as well. If you want one service in full: drainage, French drains and grading, eco-friendly lawn care, fertilization, weed and pest control.
Two of the bigger jobs we are asked about on these streets are a covered outdoor kitchen and a driveway that has outgrown the house, and both run into the same pair of approvals here, the city one and the neighbourhood one. The detail is on our outdoor kitchens page and our steps, walkways and driveways page.
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