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Custom Patios & Terraces
Thermal bluestone, travertine, and large-format porcelain laid tight and true over bases we over-build on purpose. Outdoor floors that feel like rooms.
Design-Build Hardscape · North Shore of Chicago
The backyard you never come in from.
Custom patios, outdoor kitchens, and fire features — designed and built by two generations of master masons, and warrantied for twenty-five years.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars. 5.0 · 120+ Google reviews
ICPI-certified installers
25-year workmanship warranty
What We Build
Six crafts. One standard.
Every Stonehaven project is designed in-house and installed by our own crews — never subcontracted, never rushed, never "close enough."
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Outdoor Kitchens
Masonry kitchens with honed stone counters, built-in grills, refrigeration, and firewood storage. Everything but a reason to go inside.
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Retaining Walls & Steps
Engineered stone walls that hold hillsides, carve terraces, and frame gardens — beautiful from the street, bulletproof underground.
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Fire Features
Wood-burning fireplaces, gas fire tables, and sunken fire courts. The difference between a season outside and a whole year.
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Landscape Design
Our in-house designers resolve stone, planting, and lighting as one composition — presented in 3D before we break ground.
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Paver Driveways
Clay and permeable-paver drives with granite aprons, snow-melt options, and hand-cut borders. An arrival worthy of the address.
Selected Work
Proof, set in stone.
A few recent builds from around the North Shore. Every one designed, engineered, and installed by Stonehaven crews.
Winnetka
The Wexford Terrace
A 900 sq ft thermal-bluestone terrace wrapping a masonry kitchen and dining court — the family's entire summer now happens on it.
Glencoe
Fireside Garden
Lake Forest
Lakeview Court
Hinsdale
The Orchard Kitchen
Highland Park
Ravine Steps
Kenilworth
Pool Surround
The Stonehaven Standard
Family-owned. Obsessively built.
Stonehaven began in 2011 with two brothers, a dump trailer, and standards learned the hard way — on their father's masonry crews. Fifteen years and four hundred-some projects later, Marcus and Daniel Hale still run every job themselves: one brother in the design studio, one in the field, both on your property before a single stone is set.
We build the way we'd build for our own families — bases over-excavated and compacted in lifts, commercial-grade materials, drainage solved before beauty is discussed. The parts you'll never see are the parts we're proudest of. That's why our work carries a 25-year workmanship warranty, in writing, and why most of our clients come from three doors down the street.
Design-build, one team
Designers and masons under one roof. What we draw is exactly what we build.
Built past code
Geotextile, open-graded bases, concealed drainage — engineered to outlast the mortgage.
Certified & insured
ICPI & NCMA certified installers. Fully licensed, bonded, and insured in Illinois.
25-year warranty
If a paver settles or a joint fails, we come back and make it right. Simple as that.
“We build the parts you'll never see like you'll see them every day.”
ICPI Certified
NCMA Certified
Licensed & Insured
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How It Works
From first walk to final reveal.
Walk the property
A free on-site consultation. We listen, measure, and talk honestly about budget.
See the design
A 3D concept and a fixed, line-item proposal. No allowances, no surprises.
Watch it built
Our own crews, a dedicated project lead, and a photo update every evening.
Step outside
Final walkthrough, a care guide, and a 25-year warranty in writing.
Client Stories
Word travels down the street.
5.0 across 120+ Google reviews — and most of our calendar is filled by neighbors of past clients.
We interviewed four firms, and Stonehaven was the only one that talked about drainage before they talked about price. Eight months in, the terrace looks like it was poured with the house. We eat outside more than we eat inside now.
Daniel's crew arrived at 7:58 every morning and swept the driveway every night. The fire court is the single best thing we've done to this house — our teenagers voluntarily leave their rooms now.
The estimate was the most detailed document a contractor has ever handed me, and the final invoice matched it to the dollar. Three of our neighbors have hired them since. That says everything.
Where We Build
Rooted on the North Shore.
From our shop in Lake Forest we design and build within about twenty-five miles — close enough for a Hale to check on every job, every day.
- Lake Forest — HQ
- Lake Bluff
- Winnetka
- Wilmette
- Kenilworth
- Glencoe
- Highland Park
- Highwood
- Northbrook
- Deerfield
- Glenview
- Evanston
- Barrington
- Libertyville
Beyond these towns? Ask — we take a handful of destination projects each year.
Free Estimate
Let's walk your property.
Tell us about your project and we'll schedule a free on-site consultation — usually within the week. You'll get honest advice, a sketch of what's possible, and a clear number.
Phone(847) 555-0141
Studio & Yard1200 N Western Ave, Lake Forest, IL 60045
HoursMon–Fri 7am–5pm · Sat by appointment
Prefer the phone? Call and you'll get a Hale — not a call center.
Request received — thank you.
Marcus or Daniel will call within one business day to schedule your free walkthrough. Talk soon.
Need us sooner? (847) 555-0141