Quite an extensive and beautiful project. The finished product was breathtaking! The water theme starts flowing gently, at the entry, where a peacefully gurgling natural spring — likely older than the Stewarts’ 1971 photo — runs its way to the beach under a livable bridge that centers the home in more ways than one.
“The creek was something I wanted to highlight because it was there,” Underwood says. “It could have gone underground, but it was just a really nice inspiration to create this fern-grotto feel. What they’ve planted is going to be a very lush fern-oriented tunnel down to the water.”