Retaining walls, patios, drainage and grading for Lake James and the Western North Carolina foothills — built for steep lots, built by hand, done right the first time.
Get a Project Quote Call Duece DirectlyProject work is our specialty — the permanent stuff. Stone, timber, earth and water, shaped to hold for decades.
Boulder, block and timber walls that hold a mountainside where you want it — shaped to the slope, built to stay.
Paver patios and stone fire pits that turn a back yard into the place everyone ends up on a Friday night.
Natural stone paths and borders, laid by hand — the detail work that makes a property feel finished.
French drains, dry creeks, regrading and erosion control. We fix water problems at the source — before they cost you a foundation.
Trees and stumps out clean — roots and all — with the equipment to do it safely on a slope.
Overgrown banks, brush and beds knocked back into shape — the before-and-after kind of cleanup.
Privacy fencing, screens and outdoor structures in clean, straight lines that stay that way.
Steep-lot transformations from bare slope to finished landscape — excavation through final mulch.
Lakefront property is beautiful — and it's steep, wet, and unforgiving on landscaping that wasn't built for it. Most of our work is around the lake, and it's taught us what holds: walls with real footing, drainage that moves water where it should go, and stonework that looks better in year ten than year one.
If your lot slides, washes, or just doesn't work the way you want it to — that's exactly the problem we build answers to.
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Real jobs, real photos — nothing staged, nothing borrowed.
From a 15-year-old with a mower to the owner of Grass Monkeys.
Duece Barnes started at 15 with a mower and a drive to build something of his own. He learned the business one job at a time — and today, at 22, Grass Monkeys builds the retaining walls, patios, and landscapes that transform properties across the foothills. Through it all, he's leaned on hard work, honesty, and his faith in God. And he's still just getting started.
Built from the ground up. Driven by hard work. Guided by faith.
Tell us what you're picturing. Duece reviews every request personally and qualified projects book an on-site estimate — usually within a couple of days.
