Preserving a family’s history

Careful planning to reuse and restore family artifacts

Dirt construction site with a bulldozed lot, trees in back, and a house at right

Eckroth

WORK IN PROGRESS-2020

This major exterior renovation is helping a family preserve the legacy concrete work done by past family members who owned the property. Sentimental portions were carefully dug up and stored so they could be used in future sculptures as a tribute to the fond memories of this family summer home.


After the stonework was preserved demolition was done to regrade the entire property down to the waterline.


A gravel patio was replaced with formal pavers accented by a decorative perimeter. The new renovation features an outdoor kitchen, directional outdoor heaters, and an outdoor fireplace.


The new landscaping will feature:

  • Plantings up the hillside with extensive concrete retaining walls.
  • Out of sight RV parking pad
  • A he/she shed
  • Raised cedar planting boxes for vegetables.
  • Replacement of a legacy water feature with an updated fountain.
  • A fenced and gated property.
Wooded yard with stone retaining wall, concrete pad, and a small excavator in the background

The original site before excavation.

Construction site with a large concrete foundation pit and wooden formwork for retaining walls

Massive forms approximately 7 ft tall are constructed to hold back the bank.

Worker and skid steer spreading dirt in front of a house under construction
Backyard construction with excavator, workers, and house by the water under tall trees
Three workers stand in a dirt excavation site, discussing work near a pickup truck.
Construction site with wooden formwork and rebar for a foundation excavation
Workers at a construction site by a large concrete pump truck labeled “PUGET SOUND CONCRETE PUMPING”
Wooden foundation formwork at a construction site, with rows of brown braces and steel supports.
Two workers assemble a brick structure with a curved metal frame at a construction site outdoors.
Construction worker pouring wet concrete into wooden formwork at a building site
Worker smoothing wet concrete in a foundation trench with wooden forms.

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