ROSALIA SANNI ROSALIA

Sanni Design

The Pondview home, as it’s fondly become known, is a lush landscape filled with picturesque spaces, natural views and beautiful greenery year-round. The current owners purchased the home knowing it would need to undergo a major transformation, as the 20-year-old landscape had become overgrown and unmaintainable, hiding the natural beauty of the property.

Engaging Rosalia Sanni Design, the homeowners set the bar high, asking the team to design a pool and a sports lawn to support their children’s active sports endeavors among an unforgiving terrain of precarious slopes and wetlands. The owners also sought a space that was organized, clean and balanced, despite the irregularly shaped property that had little symmetry. Rosalia and her design team were clearly up for the challenge.

Since creating the clients’ dream space meant removing much from the property, the team sought ways to make the process a seamless experience—to create the feeling that it had always been there, and as if “only one hand ever touched it,” says Rosalia. They achieved this by maintaining certain elements—like the view to the pond and a large old oak tree that provided character— but enhancing them with design fea- tures that blended in seamlessly. The team also added new plantings along the perimeter of the pond, highlighting the view, and placed new evergreen trees at the edge of the property to improve privacy within the lawn.

While the house wasn’t renovated, Rosalia and her team did collaborate with an interior designer to repaint the exterior in a color that would work seamlessly with the overall exterior palette. The palette is grounded in the homeowners’ commitment to evergreen selections, which provide a continuous backdrop year-round, highlighted with soft colors and specialty plantings that offer seasonal flashes of color. Together with the home’s soft beige and stone, the green lawn, and the natural stone that forms the patio and steps, the lustrous landscape does not disappoint at any time of year.

In the end, the Rosalia Sanni Design team endeavors to go back to its projects years later and see them looking just as beautiful—if not more lovely—than they did on the day of installation, while their functionality evolves with their clients’ ever-changing needs. At the Pondview home, the team created an experience that will not just evolve with the family as their children grow, but—thanks to its thoughtful design— will continuously breathe life into the property.

45 East Putnam Avenue, Suite 105 Greenwich, CT 06830 203.918.4619 rosaliasanni.com