“THE RETREAT” SIGNATURE RESIDENCE | LOT 55 Available

“THE RETREAT”
SIGNATURE RESIDENCE | LOT 55
Available

Lonesome Valley

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Property Description

Sanctuary Developers’ design team worked together from the very initial stages of the home design to create a thoughtfully planned home and landscape that would easily blend with the unique characteristics of the Lonesome Valley property and seamlessly connect the interior home to the outdoor living spaces and wooded landscape beyond. The naturalistic design style utilizes gentle curves and a variety of indigenous plant species to anchor the home, accent stunning views, and create multiple outdoor living spaces that flow effortlessly from the interior of the house to the surrounding land.

A gently curved driveway passes through groupings of rhododendrons, mountain laurels, dogwoods, and mature hardwoods as it approaches the home. Groupings of spruces and flowering shrubs and ferns filter glimpses of the home along the entry experience, opening into a secluded motor court surrounded by landscaped areas that provide interest throughout the seasons of the year.

The home is designed and oriented on the site to provide opportunities for multiple outdoor gathering places, each unique in character. A curvilinear lawn area beyond the screened porch on the east side of the home allows room for gathering and play, and connects to a small, private stone terrace off the office with stunning views of Cow Rock. A stone footpath meanders from the lawn area, through a woodland fern glade, to a freestanding stone fireplace and seating terrace. The fireplace terrace is oriented to provide both a focal point from the living area and screened porch and capture the nearby view of the impressive rock face of Cow Rock.

On the west side of the home, one can easily flow from the interior living room to a secluded outdoor stone terrace that can be used for dining and grilling. A few steps down will lead to a small lawn terrace that transitions into the native woods. A woodland path leads from there, meandering through the trees and groupings of rhododendrons to connect to a nearby stream and community hiking trail to the north side of the property, or down to a future stream side open-air pavilion on the south side of the property.

The thoughtful siting of the home and naturalistic landscape design style creates opportunities to easily connect the home with its natural surroundings, inviting the homeowner and visitors to enjoy the fresh air, stunning views, and tranquility of the landscape in a variety of outdoor spaces.

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MISSION:
Sanctuary Developers, LLC offers our clients a single-source of responsibility for coordinating and managing all functions from lot purchase to completion of home construction and landscaping. Our Team of selected professionals include highly experienced local firms for architecture, design, engineering, home construction, landscape design and landscape planting execution. The team approach ensures your home building experience is efficient, well coordinated and constructed on time.

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Architectural + Engineering Design

We believe a great architectural design requires the input of both a professional designer and a licensed architect. Our lead designer and architect work closely together to achieve a unique custom design that meets your specific objectives on the property you have selected. Architectural Design phases include:

Pre-Design is the first phase of Architectural Design. The objective of Pre-Design is to consult with the client and determine their vision, project goals, scope, features, functionality, purpose and budget. Meetings will take place on both the property and in our office in Cashiers, NC. This phase ends with the client’s decision to move forward.

Schematic Design is the second phase of Architectural Design. Under this phase we consider local codes and architectural guidelines, provide floor plans and exterior elevations and provide 3D imaging of the home’s exterior. For an additional fee, Sanctuary offers digital fly-through graphics and videos that allow you to move from room to room viewing spacial relationships, scale and views from each room. This capability is unique to the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau and allows a client that is not well versed in reading or visualizing one dimensional architectural plans the opportunity to see exactly what is being delivered in your design before construction.

Design Development is the third phase of Architectural Design. This phase involves finalizing the design and specifying items such as materials, window and door locations, appliances, electrical, lighting systems and general structural details. Our lead designer will work closely with you during this phase to ensure items selected meet your approval and design intent.

Construction Documents is the fourth and last phase of Architectural Design. At this stage, we have a final design and can now prepare construction drawings/blueprints, notes, and technical specifications necessary for bidding, construction, and permit application. Construction contractors will use these detailed drawings and specifications to construct your new home. Engineering is not always required or necessary for all building sites. In the event the services of a licensed engineer are needed, Sanctuary will contract with a local third party engineering firm to provide engineering services.

Landscape Design

Landscape Design involves both the science and art of designing outdoor spaces. Fundamental design concepts including proportion, unity, balance, perspective, color and texture combine to create a fully integrated design.

A landscape designer is far more involved than just deciding where to install recommended trees and plants after your home is constructed. A professional landscape designer is an important part of the Sanctuary team and is highly involved in the early stages of your project starting with the Site Planning phase.

Why? A professional landscape designer will help you map out a vision for your outdoor living space while considering best views, climate, sun exposure, utilization of special land features, and terrain elevation changes – all within the confines of your budget.

Site Planning

Once your property has been identified, the second stage in the process of building your dream home is Site Planning. Selecting the ideal building site on your property involves much more than consideration of the best views. We can assist you in contracting with a local survey company who will generate a Boundary Survey Map and Topographical Map for your property.

Using both maps, our lead designer, landscape designer, builder, and architect will tour the property with you to determine the best site location for your new home considering all factors. Proper Site Planning for your new home can maximize home and outdoor space functionality and often minimize building costs.

The team will provide you with a topographical map showing boundaries, terrain elevations, special topographical features, and the preliminary footprint of your proposed home positioned on the recommended building site. For mountain home construction, positioning a home correctly on the property can often reduce home construction costs associated with pouring concrete stem walls and foundation walls.

Property Selection

The first stage in the process of building your dream home is Property Selection. If you would like help in finding a property that meets your objectives and plan on building a new home, Sanctuary can assist you.

Selecting the ideal property for any client is highly dependent upon their interests, desired location, lifestyle, views and budget. These factors will greatly drive the decision.

Our team is experienced and well positioned to provide you with options for finding the perfect property. Once your property has been selected, we will provide all the other process elements needed to design, build and furnishing your perfect dream home on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau.