Murdock Mountain Outdoor Living

The front porch was extended to the site to make the entry more visible from the downhill approach to the home.
The rear deck was connected to the front via a wrap-around side deck with boulder steps leading down to the landscape.
A stone walkway across the lawn leads to a new patio.
Across the lawn from the house, a new patio was created to serve as a landing point to a series of new steps meandering up the hillside to an enclave of hammocks in the woods.
Live-edge undressed cedar logs were harvested to serve as the new deck columns.
Guardrails were fabricated from mountain laurel twigs.
The existing deck columns were unattractive and spindly 4x4 posts, which we clad with cedar logs that had been quartered and were reassembled around the posts.
Arriving at this mountain retreat near Camp David used to be a bit confusing.  To clarify this, we removed steps from the driveway up to the rear deck, and extended the front porch into the sideyard to create a unique rustic entrance.  The deck was expanded around the more private side of the house to create better access to the yard and the forest trails, and new stone paths and stairs leading across the lawn and up the mountain create an inviting destination.  Live-cut cedar columns and mountain laurel handrails reinforce the rustic character of the log cabin.
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