# Mountain Brook Legacy Home

> Custom Estate — Mountain Brook

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- Type: Custom Home
- Style: English Country
- Place: Mountain Brook, AL

## Project overview

Mountain Brook Legacy Home is a limestone and slate estate in Mountain Brook, built to look as though it has always been there. The stone is laid in coursed blocks with cut surrounds, the roofs are graduated slate, and a turret marks the turn into the motor court.

The grounds hold as much building as the house. A pool house sits across a dark-bottomed pool, reached by a bridge and a curved stone stair, with a tennis court beyond. Inside, the finish work runs to bookmatched marble, unlacquered brass and walnut millwork.

## What we built

1. Coursed limestone walls with cut stone surrounds
2. Graduated slate roofs, copper gutters and a slate turret
3. Cobbled motor court with an arched carriage entry
4. Pool house, bridge and curved stone stair across the pool
5. Walnut millwork, bookmatched marble and unlacquered brass inside

## How it was built

1. July: hardscape going in around the finished roofs
2. July: pool terrace and pergola
3. August: drive, lawns and planting complete
4. August: the finished house in its trees

The page shows 19 photographs of this project.

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