Sunny Pond LLC

Sunny Pond completed two projects for us in 2023: a smaller, decorative wall project in the Spring and then a major hardscaping project in the Fall. The results for both were truly excellent. Communication was consistent, the team's design suggestions were perfect, and the work was done with the same level of craftsmanship and care no matter the size. Every visitor to our home comments on the quality and design of Sunny Pond's work. They are not contractors, they're artisans, and I highly recommend reaching out to them for your outdoor projects.

This company built a beautiful and sturdy deck for me. From start to finish, they were very professional. Richard was very helpful in assisting me in the design of the deck. They kept the work site neat and tidy, completed the job in a timely manner, and cleaned up at the finish. I highly recommend Sunny Pond Landscaping.

Sunny Pond, LLC is by far the best company I have ever had work for me. Their work is top notch - not only in design but they are all about making sure their customers are 100% satisfied before they sign off on the job. Over the past several years, they have built our Honah Lee Winery Tasting Room two beautiful patio areas and now they just finished a gorgeous new deck for us on the side. Richard and his two sons go the extra mile to see that the projects are pleasing to the eye and well made. We have had nothing but compliments on our place thanks to Sunny Pond LLC!

Richard and his sons did an excellent job building a large patio for us in 2014. It has held up extremely well and it still looks fantastic!

Richard and sons did a beautiful job on our paver patio and retaining wall. I highly recommend these craftsmen for your next project.

As I read all the other comments, I think our review will be exactly the same. . . which is AMAZING!! Sunny Pond recently built a very large and beautiful patio for my husband and I along with landscaping our full yard. With a very sloped backyard, Richard designed an inexpensive yet beautiful way to retain the slope while designing a patio that accentuated the spaces curves for a gorgeous outcome. His knowledge, expertise, and experience provided us with options to consider. The Belgard pavers look amazing. Richard and his team meticulously cut around every post and railing while adding the curved edge to perfection. We highly recommend Sunny Pond for any hardscape and landscaping projects. Richard and his crew are extremely dedicated, professional, and take pride and care in every aspect of their work. His proactive communication was unexpected yet greatly appreciated. You always knew what was happening and what to expect on a daily basis. BRAVO TO SUNNY POND.

Sunny Pond, LLC did an excellent job extending our patio, Richard and Christian had installed the original patio in 2008, twelve years later we asked them to come back and enlarge it, the additional stonework merged perfectly with the original patio which had held up wonderfully over the years, wouldn't hesitate to have Richard and his crew back, they are very professional, do meticulous work and are so delightfully polite and friendly

Sunny Pond recently built a beautiful patio for my husband and me. With a very sloped backyard, which required a patio with a retaining wall, this was a complicated and quite technical project, from the initial planning to completion. With Richard Wernig‘s knowledge, expertise, and experience, the finished patio surpassed our expectations. In addition, Sunny Pond installed a porcelain tile paver patio floor, which is a fairly new product to the hardscape industry. Sunny Pond did a meticulous job with the porcelain tile pavers, which made the project even more beautiful than we thought possible. We highly recommend Sunny Pond for any hardscape and landscaping projects. Richard and his crew are extremely dedicated, professional, and take pride and care in every aspect of their work. BRAVO TO SUNNY POND.

My patio project turned out exactly as I pictured it. It's beautiful and I'm so happy with it. Richard and his sons and crew are very professional, do meticulous work, and are polite and friendly. The planning process was easy and I went with Richard's recommendations for the most part. Richard made adjustments so that we could stick to our budget, which was really nice. I highly recommend Sunny Pond LLC.

Sunny Pond LLC did an excellent job with our large backyard patio. They were extremely professional and worked with us through some unusual supply chain issues with the stone manufacturers, and made sure we had the perfect patio. They helped design a stone bench that works wonderfully with our fire pit, and even recommended and completed some lovely landscaping around the sides. Richard and his sons placed every stone with care and we highly recommend them!

My patio is beautiful! This was a very large patio (650 sq ft) done with pavers. Richard and Christian are very professional and knowledgeable. This project was at a very difficult time in my life. These two men are very compassionate, humble and hardworking. I would hire them again without hesitation.

I watched my next-door neighbor's patio being built by Richard, Christian and Robert (?) They took a lot of time and care and precision--so much so that I told my husband it looked like they were building one of the great pyramids and it should last just as long. That's why we chose them to do our patio. It is beautiful! The sheer effort and care they took to haul 31 tons of materials down the side yard of our house, painstakingly position all the layers of crushed materials as the base, and then beautifully lay the mixed pavers so that the 70/30 blend would look great was impressive. The patio is surrounded by beds of good soil and mulched to get us through to planting season. I look forward to enjoying this space for years to come.

Richard and Christian Wernig helped us with repairs and upgrades of our weekend home in Madison Virginia. Their stone work is magnificent. They also created a new porch and landing on the house and repaired garden beds .They both give good advice and have an aesthetic sense of what looks good. They’re both very professional and thoroughly discussed issues with me before beginning. They coordinated their work with the other subcontractors.I highly their company.

We hired Sunny Pond LLC to restore a 31-year-old deck that extends from the back of our house. We love this area to sit in the spring through fall months, but we’ve been concerned lately because it was showing significant wear and wood damage. With Richard’s help, we decided to keep the same footprint, but change out the wooden boards with very nice Azek synthetic boards and trim that complement the color of our cedar-sided house. Richard was invaluable in helping us think through the process, from materials of the deck, railing and low-voltage LED lights to enclosing the space (~ 8 ft.) under the deck with wood lattice work. We could not be happier with the final product. Richard and Christian ended up doing a significant amount of structural work because of decay and settling to some of the underlying deck supports, and true to form, they were meticulous in the placement of each deck board, trim piece, and railing. Our deck has been transformed from a functional place to enjoy the Virginia outdoors to a showcase deck that seamlessly extends our house to the outside. We feel like we have an entirely new deck. This is the third major project done by Sunny Pond for us and would hire them back without reservation to do more.

Richard and his sons are excellent professionals. They installed a new retaining wall in my backyard replacing the rotten wooden one. That was a superior craftsmanship so I can recommend the Sunny Pond Company to anyone looking for a high quality service without any hesitation.

Richard and his crew at Sunny Pond LLC did an absolutely wonderful job designing and building a patio that compliments our wine tasting room. The structure and landscaping was done over the summer of 2017. The dedication to detail and structure integrity was extremely professional. Richard and crew finished this project in a very timely manner. We couldn’t be more pleased with the outcome of the project.

Sunny Pond, LLC has been more than excellent, and I recommend their company for any type of landscape job one can envision. They looked at my crude sketches and made a walkway, patio and landscape that are just beautiful. We have had so many wonderful comments our Tasting Room Event area here at Honah Lee Vineyard. Mr. Wernig and his sons and crew are professional and easy to work with. They left our project looking like it had been here a long time. Their footprint after working here was invisible. Thank you Sunny Pond for a job well done!

Sunny Pond installed a 50' walk and large cobble stone patio (20' DIA) with sitting wall and firepit at our new farm. Our yard had mature landscaping and we wanted to preserve as much green space as possible. Richard and his sons dug everything by hand and hauled the crush/run by wheel barrel to minimize the damage to the yard and surrounding vegetation. Richard is a pleasure to work with and his work is exceptional. The finish product was a beautifully integrated design that we will enjoy for years to come. I would recommend Sunny Pond for paver and patio work to anyone who wants a professional product with true craftsmanship.

Working with Richard and his team was a pleasure, the work was done to my satisfaction and his team was professional. I would highly recommend him for landscaping work.

I knew the basics of what I wanted my backyard to look like but there a lot of details that I needed to iron out. Richard worked with me to plan out my ideas and gave me some of his own. Once the plan was in place he and his two sons got to work. Their workmanship and attention to detail is impressive and it is clear they really care about creating something special. The end product is better than I had imagined. I will be seeing them again in Spring with a new project.

I would highly recommend Richard and Sunny Pond LLC. It was a pleasure working with him and his sons. He was very responsive and clear with expectations. All of his team members were very respectful of my time and my property. He was able to take all of my thoughts and visions and turn them into a great end product. I will definitely work with them again on any landscaping projects I have in the future.

Sunny Pond expanded our patio, installed a fire pit with bench and built a wonderful pond-less water feature in our backyard. We enjoyed working with Richard and his sons throughout every stage of the project. In addition to providing an excellent initial plan, Richard was very flexible and did a great job in listening to our ideas and incorporating them in his final design. The team paid attention to the little details that esnured the great quality of their work. They blended the features together quite well , met their timeline and stayed within budget. After completing the project, they have followed up to ensure that the project continues to meet our satisfaction. We are very happy with the completed project and highly recommend Sunny Pond.

I contacted Richard with the need to replace a 5’x7’ master bedroom window. From the start he was instrumental in doing the research to find the perfect replacement. He arrived on the day he said he would with a truck load of tools and extra materials he thought he may need. Once the siding and the window were removed he replaced the affected frame and sheathing around the window where rainwater had leaked in. He installed flashing around the window, something the original builders hadn’t bothered with. I was very impressed with the attention to detail that he brought to this project and I am fully confident that his work will stand the test of time. Richard is a very meticulous and patient contractor who took the time to answer all my questions and concerns about the installation of this window. It’s refreshing to find a craftsman of his caliber and I will most definitely be using his services again if needed.

Sunny Pond LLC added a staircase to our deck. Richard matched the staircase to our deck lumber perfectly. My husband and I were very pleased with the integrity and quality of the work.

We hired Richard and his sons Christian and Sawyer of Sunny Pond LLC to landscape after a main floor room addition. We needed to correct the area disturbed by construction, replace a previous walkway that led to the back of the house, make a new pathway to the front of the house due to the addition of a front deck that covered the previous front sidewalk, and correct drainage and run off on the down hill gravel driveway. First, they corrected the driveway issues with a deep drainage ditch to one side of the driveway, a culvert to divert the ditch run off away from the house, beautifully recapped the driveway, and added a berm at the top of the driveway and at the base of the driveway in front of the new addition. The berm at the base of the driveway was more than a berm, it was deep enough to be wonderfully landscaped with evergreen plantings. After almost 30 years in our home, we finally have the drainage and run off completely corrected and it looks amazing! Second, they worked on the pathways. Using irregular flagstone they made gently curving walkways to the front of the house and a long sweeping and gently curving pathway around the new addition with a small patio at the bottom of the path in the back yard. Then they replaced a previous pebble pathway to connect the new patio to the previously existing back deck. With all of the backyard patio and paths, they beautifully incorporated current plantings so that the new patio and pathway look like they have always been there. Also, the pathway around the side of the house was on an incline, so the flagstone path is made with steps about every six feet to accommodate the incline. The design of the room addition is cantilevered over the foundation. So they made the front of each step with very large pieces of the irregular flagstone that also cantilever about three to four inches. The integrity of that path design complementing the design of the room it sweeps around is amazing. They have such an attention to detail and know how to make each aspect of the project incredible as well as how to make it all flawlessly flow together to a beautiful completed project! Not only that, they either came when they said they would be there or they notified us if they were not coming. AND, they were there continually until the project was complete. In today’s world, that is rare and wonderful! Richard was a great listener or our ideas and concerns and he came in with wonderful ideas and skill to professionally care for our needs. He created wonderful outside spaces for us and completed our home’s landscaping in ways we never dreamed of or thought we would be able to afford. You could not go wrong with Sunny Pond LLC for your exterior space or landscaping needs.

This vendor is deserving of more than 5 stars. The planning of the scope of the work, its execution and completion were all done in a highly professional, competent and timely manner. The price was reasonable for a great deal of intensive labor. The area was kept clean during the entire project, all details were discussed prior to implementing, the crew was friendly and seemed particularly eager to please. Kudos for a job very well done. I would recommend this company without hesitation for any project for which they might be considered. We will certainly seek their services in the future.

We moved into a new construction neighborhood that was previously a farm. The developer did minimal work on the landscaping and we were in need of some major work in our backyard. Unfortunately, the backyard had a steep grade and was full of debris, pasture grass and certainly not maintainable. We looked to Richard from Sunny Pond to help us build out our backyard to something that we could enjoy year around. Upon first having Richard come out, he did a quick survey of the land and listened to wants and desires. Richard was prompt in providing plans. Upon providing us the plans and estimated cost of incorporating our ideas, we quickly realized that it was much more cost intensive than we had planned. Richard again listened to our concerns and wants and went back to the drawing board. Richard returned with a modified plan that still incorporated our ideas, but utilized different materials and landscaping ideas to meet our budget. throughout the whole building process, Richard kept us in the loop and requested our input on certain features and also recommended others that would help us deal with some neighbor concerns and privacy. We have truly enjoyed the yard that Richard designed, built and landscaped for us. The end result was far better than the expectations we had and we love to be in our yard as much as we can. We continue to us Richard and Sunny Pond for other landscaping projects we have around the area.

I needed a company that cared and could help me with many questions and concerns. Sunny Pond was very knowledgeable and willing to listen to my wishes. He seemed to know more what I would like than I could decide. Mr. RIchard took the time and patience to listen to me and what I wanted, could afford, and would enjoy using in the future. He made his ideas known and yet learned from me what would make me pleased. Mr. Richard developed more than I could ever have asked for with the fun and useful design for my personality. The work was done with knowledge, concerns, timely, and especially with cleanliness and never ruined the other landscapes and grassed areas. The workmen were very friendly and again worked with pleasant attitudes and superb workmenship. My entire neighborhood enjoys the designs and plans Sunny Ponds develops and shares with us. I couldn't say enough positive results of this company and its workmen. SUnny Pond has various beautiful pictures of my patio. I enjoy and love the design of my new backyard view. One can contact me anytime or see photos for ideas as I'd love to share my findings. Contact Sunny Ponds for numbers or pictures please. I cannot include every positive, thoughtful, way I was treated. Sunny Pond made a huge difference in my property and I'd enjoy sharing with anyone interested. Thank you for letting me tell you of their great quality offered and desire to help make the project perfect. J.Peterson

The work provided by Richard Wernig and Sunny Pond LLC was, in a word - outstanding! Everything was done on time with the highest possible standards. Sunny Pond LLC completely re-did our front yard and the stone work of the front walkway area. We could not be more pleased. I recommend Sunny Pond LLC to anyone looking for superb work at a very fair price.

We have been very pleased with the gardening plans that Sunny Pond has developed for our property. We have used Richard's expertise in two areas of our property, our driveway entrance and a side bed across from our pond. We have a rural setting and wanted to plant beds to enhance our natural environment versus a formal garden. Richard drew up a unique plan and color coded the plant drawings so we could envision how the beds would appear throughout the seasons providing continual color. The work is guaranteed replanting shrubs that did not survive the first year. We highly recommend Sunny Pond.