Our clients are at the center of these spaces and of our story. They’re open-minded and creative. They welcome new ways of thinking, doing and living that improve their quality of life. Our clients are more than willing to explore the possibilities with us, and it’s a pleasure to put smiles on their faces.
We believe that beauty is as much about how something looks as how it works. A beautiful space engages all five senses, but it can also encourage community, provide repose from our busy world and, importantly, support our environment and help us feel more connected to nature.
A beautiful space hums. It buzzes. It lives!
Take a look around, meet our team below, and explore our integrated services, projects and other initiatives! Welcome!
Beautiful Spaces For Original People
Matt Benzie, ISA, ASLA
1. What would surprise people about you?
I took swing-dancing lessons.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Hop on a freight train.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Flying squirrel. Because it can’t really fly.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Home staycation.
PRESIDENT / OWNER
Dillon Fretz
1. What would surprise people about you?
I own a bespoke straight razor & wet shaving side hustle, crafting shave goods & restoring vintage straight razors & other tonsorial products.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Visited all 50 states... only 15 to go!
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
The great blue heron... their presence symbolizes self determination and self reliance.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
The northeast kingdom of VT, pacific northwest or anywhere with endless trees and mountains.
CARPENTRY MANAGER
Jim Haggar
1. What would surprise people about you?
I can crochet and make a mean scarf during the holiday season.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
I've always wanted to hand build a cabin from logs harvested from my own property.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
I think dogs understand people more than people understand people.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Jim Thorpe, PA
DESIGNER
Matt Mignat
1. What would surprise people about you?
I love death metal.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Flown in an airplane.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Baptisia Australis. It was my favorite flower in my grandmother’s garden.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
The beach! Sandbridge, Virginia is my favorite spot.
CARPENTRY CREW LEADER
Morgan Rayer
1. What would surprise people about you?
Hate avocado.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Go to Alaska.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Foxes, because they’re cool.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Virgin Islands.
OUTDOOR BUILD TEAM MEMBER
Tyler Simonovich
1. What would surprise people about you?
I used to own my own haymaking business.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
I haven’t been to Alaska
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Has to be dogs, they are incredibly loyal.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Anywhere in the Smokies or Rockies.
OUTDOOR BUILD TEAM MEMBER
Doug Walkup
CARPENTRY AND OUTDOOR BUILD TEAM MEMBER
1. What would surprise people about you?
I bungee jumped out of hot air balloon @ 1000 ft.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Learn to fly a plane.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
I like exotic frogs because of their colors.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
At a lake in the Montana mountains and/or Alaska.
Carl Molter, RLA
1. What would surprise people about you?
I’m half El Salvadoran (but I can’t speak Spanish).
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Live outside my home state of New Jersey.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Tulips. They didn’t create the first market crash for nothing.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
The Poconos; where else?
DESIGN DIRECTOR
Drew Simonovich
1. What would surprise people about you?
I played guitar and sang in a punk band when I was in high school.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
I’ve never travelled outside of the country, but my wife and I would love to visit Scotland.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Tabby cat.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Any Civil War battlefield.
OUTDOOR BUILD TEAM LEADER
Mary Zuzack
GARDEN CARE & RESTORATION (GCR) MANAGER
1. What would surprise people about you?
I volunteered on a soy sauce fermentation farm in Korea.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Done a backflip on a dirt bike.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Partridge Pea because it's cute and helpful in the garden.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Anywhere where dogs are pulling me on a wagon.
1. What would surprise people about you?
Completed my pilot solo flight when I was 17.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Hit the lottery jackpot.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
Saucer magnolia - it was my childhood-climbing tree.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
The mountains, anywhere I can bike or ski.
Ben Andrews, RLA
OUTDOOR BUILD MANAGER
Matthew Fonash
1. What would surprise people about you?
I make one hell of a breakfast sandwich.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Travelled much or backpacked across a country.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
A gardenia, I love the scent, and a lemur because I think I was a lemur in a past life.
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
New Zealand.
LEAD CARPENTER
1. What would surprise people about you?
I worked as a ranger’s assistant at a koala sanctuary in Australia.
2. What haven’t you done yet?
Get a tattoo.
3. What is your favorite plant or animal, and why?
The Bald Cypress - they have knees!
4. What is your ideal vacation spot?
Paddling in the Adirondacks.
Emily Landgreen
OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR
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