Featured Work

The best accessibility work does not look like accessibility work. It just looks like the way the property was always meant to flow. The homeowners wanted a new deck attached to the back of the house and a wheelchair-accessible ramp that would carry them safely down through the property to the driveway. The site has real elevation change and rocky terrain along the route, which meant the ramp had to be long enough to hold a comfortable grade the whole way while working with what the landscape had already put there.

We built the deck at the house with traditional spindle railings, then ran the ramp as a long boardwalk out and down the slope. Cable railings on the ramp keep sight lines open the whole route, which matters when you use it every day. Every post is anchored to concrete footings driven into the rocky slope, and the ramp pitch is held under 1:12 the entire way so a wheelchair rolls comfortably from top to bottom without effort. The result is a build that gives everyone in the household equal access to the outdoors and looks like it belongs to the property, above code and made to hold up to years of daily use.

Some projects come together from a single scope. This one grew as we walked the property. The homeowner needed the lakeside deck rebuilt after years of Arkansas humidity and lake exposure had left it soft underfoot and unsafe at the step edges. The bigger challenge was the hillside itself, a steep rocky slope between the house at the top of the ridge and the boat dock at the water. What we built is a full custom lakeside stair system spanning the entire hillside, tied together with a rebuilt deck at the water.

The staircase is the centerpiece. Multi-flight construction with intermediate landings that switch direction to fit the terrain, rise and run kept consistent so the walk feels natural, and every post anchored to concrete footings driven into the rocky slope. Deck work at the water covered full board replacement, reinforced framing, and a rebuilt step section that ties into the base of the new stair run. Pressure-treated southern yellow pine, coated deck screws, and through-bolted connections at every load-bearing joint. On a hillside with real elevation change and constant lake exposure, the details are what keep the structure safe and standing for decades.