Drainage solutions, retaining walls, hardscaping, landscape design, grading, concrete, landscape lighting, and irrigation for Cornelius homeowners. Locally owned. 80 Google reviews. Free estimates — no trip fee.
Southern Style Turf & Design is a service-area business with no customer-facing office. We come to your property in Cornelius for estimates and installation.
Cornelius is dense with established HOA neighborhoods and tight lot lines. Work here has to look right from the street, meet community standards, and still solve the underlying water and grade problems.
Cornelius homeowners most often ask for paver patios and outdoor living space, landscape refreshes, and drainage fixes between closely spaced homes.
Our crew works across Cornelius and all of the towns we serve every week. We know the local roads, so we can get to properties quickly and show up when we say we will.
All estimates are free. We come to your property in Cornelius, assess conditions, and give you a written quote before any work starts. No trip fee.
Every service below is available throughout Cornelius and surrounding Mecklenburg County. All work is performed by our own in-house crew.
Cornelius sits on the south end of Lake Norman, and many lots fall toward the water or a cove. On a slope, runoff picks up speed and volume on the way down — the water arriving at the bottom of the yard is what has to be handled. In flatter subdivisions built on graded clay pads, the problem is the opposite: water sits because it has nowhere to go.
We handle both: French drains, catch basins and yard drains, underground downspout drainage, regrading and erosion control. The grading photos on this page are from a Cornelius lakefront lot our crew graded with silt fence along the shoreline.
See our Cornelius lakefront retaining wall project — drain stone and drain pipe behind a curved block wall.
Work close to the lake can fall under Duke Energy's Lake Norman shoreline rules, and some land-disturbing work needs local review. We check what applies before we dig.
Related: standing water in Cornelius yards · all drainage services.
Specific jobs Cornelius homeowners call us for most.
Real Southern Style Turf & Design projects from Cornelius and surrounding Lake Norman communities. Photos name a town only where the job location is confirmed.
Send us a few details about your Cornelius property and Josh will reach out directly. Prefer to talk? Call 704-460-2019.
We're not a regional contractor guessing at local conditions. We work in Cornelius and Mecklenburg County regularly and know the soil types, drainage patterns, HOA requirements, and property characteristics that determine what each project actually needs.
Our confirmed service area includes Denver, Stanley, Davidson, Gastonia, Mt. Holly, Troutman, Cornelius, Mooresville, Statesville, Terrell, Lincolnton, Cherryville, Huntersville, and Sherrills Ford / Lake Norman of Catawba.
Standing water in a Cornelius NC yard is fixed by giving the water a path out, not by adding soil to the low spot. Clay soil holds water at the surface once it saturates, so the repair is usually a drain line, a regraded swale, or an outlet to daylight. Which one depends on how long the water sits. See how to tell the difference.
Yes. Lakefront lots need runoff slowed and directed before it reaches the shoreline; we plan grading, drainage and erosion control together and check shoreline rules first.
Free on-site estimate — no trip fee, no obligation. We serve all of Cornelius and surrounding Mecklenburg County communities.
