One of the challenges of our hillside lot is designing ways to hold the hillside back, since we had to make radical slope cuts to create the flat building pad. Along with 12 foot high basement walls on the uphill side of home, we needed to build block retaining walls along the north side of the driveway. Adding to the challenge, the masons had to fit three block walls in the 6 feet between the driveway and the north lot boundary. As you can see, they were up to the task and the result is beautiful.
