No. 99 Fire & Spa · French Country
Sunken Limestone Lounge with Gas Fire Pit
At night, string lights and lantern lighting illuminate a sunken gravel terrace featuring a round gas fire pit, limestone retaining walls, boxwood hedges, and lavender beds fronting a French country house with shutters.
Design notes
French country design pairs formal bones with soft edges. Look for limestone walls and terraces, pea gravel courtyards, an axis or allée of pleached limes or plane trees, and clipped box giving structure to lavender, roses, rosemary and iris. Shutters, wrought-iron furniture, zinc planters and a long table under a tree complete it. Worn surfaces are the point — nothing should look new.
What to look for
- Conversation-distance seating all the way around
- Setback from structures, fences and branches
- A dry, lit path back to the house
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