Affordable living near
Wrightsville Beach
5 Oak Landing
Three bedrooms, two baths, 2,430 square
feet. Oak Landing townhouse with 35’ boat
slip and professionally redesigned kitchen
and new screened porch. Low maintenance
living to enjoy as a primary residence or
second home. $599,000
twoodbury@intracoastalrealty.com
Intracoastal Realty Corporation is licensed in NC
Surrounding the prop-erty
line and the pool,
coyote fencing provides a
measure of safety as well
as desired privacy. It uni-fies
the different spaces as
do the stone and palms.
The thick-layered plant-ings
block curious eyes as
well as muffle outside noise.
“In Texas, the coyote fences are built
with cedar. I used copper wire. …
Regular wire would have rusted in the
Figure Eight climate,” Matthews says.
Copper was used extensively throughout
the site for lighting and shower fixtures,
too.
The handmade bricks used for the
archway into the pool area and along
the tops of the walls came from an old
general store on Highway 24 in Duplin
County. When the store burned, the
bricks were saved.
“I knew I’d use them sometime,”
Matthews says. “We used every one. It
was just the right amount.”
The archway and the Indonesian gates
are clearly the pivotal point of the garden.
Stacked stone benches and boulder
retaining walls are scattered through-out
the garden. “He’s got a place to sit
everywhere you look,” Parker says.
A small, raised deck is located at the
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end of the pool area,
just above the hot
tub. Even though it’s
on the water, it’s very
private, with just a few
breaks in the green-ery.
The pool coping
mimics the patio and
walkways. The same
irregular stone is used throughout. In
a completely unique treatment, the
mortared coping joints merge seamlessly
with the grass joints elsewhere in the
pool deck for stunning results.
The property is one of the few on the
lee side of Figure Eight with a sandy
beach. But you wouldn’t know it from
the garden where the passage of an
occasional boat is screened by the lush
plantings and its noise is muffled by
falling water.
Three millstones from Jeffrey
Matthews’ grandfather’s gristmill are
used in the garden around the gates
and on the floor of the outdoor shower.
Water drains through the millstone’s
central hole.
“There were eight original stones.
My grandfather started his mill in the
1930s,” Matthews says. The gristmill
was the foundation for the family’s
food-based empire.
“My wife and I travel all the time