Old Preston Hollow & Strait Lane

Old Preston Hollow and the Strait Lane corridor are Preston Hollow at full scale. Lots run deep, houses sit far back, approaches are long, and a property can feel genuinely private inside a major city. At this size the work stops resembling landscaping and starts resembling estate planning. The question is no longer where the pool goes. It is what the whole property is supposed to be.

What's specific to Old Preston Hollow

Sequence matters more than any single feature. Arrival, motor court, front garden, the private family landscape, the pool and entertaining zone, the open lawn, and the edges all have to be decided against each other. Designing the pool first on a property this size is how you end up rebuilding it later.

Geometry belongs near the house and should loosen as it moves away. Formal axes read correctly against the architecture and against the views out of the principal rooms. Carried all the way to the property line, they read as a hotel.

Large properties fail by feeling empty far more often than by feeling crowded. The fix is destinations rather than decoration. Tree groups, garden rooms, a walk that arrives somewhere, a framed view that pays off at the end of it.

The drive and motor court are the first ten seconds of the property and they get treated as paving. Gates, walls, lighting, grading, and the planting that flanks the approach do more for how an estate reads than anything in the back yard.

These projects phase well and most of them should. A master plan that settles grade, drainage, utilities, and circulation up front lets planting, pool, structures, and hardscape land in whatever order the budget allows without undoing earlier work.