Dating COLLEGE BOY I fell hard for his family lake house, above-below. EYEBROW WINDOWs front/back. Tiny. Both in the same room. 
Look closely, above, the EYEBROW WINDOW is tiny, but it's there!
The French Touch posted this pic, above, recently. Ha, I totally understand the love of roofing & EYEBROW WINDOWs.
If Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Nigella Lawson, Lee Baily, Mario Bitali, Ina Garten, Gourmet, Cook's Illustrated.....are on a shelf, or even better, on the counter, I know a lot about what you're wanting for your landscape. 
Built in the teens the house had servant quarters, a delightful carriage house with storage for hay, 2 docks, boathouse, guest house, stone tunnel, a boiler in the attic, badminton court, extensive gardens & a summer house.
Spring water, still soft & sweet, for the house came from land Miss Louise owned further up the mountain.
We honeymooned here. Living in the big house by day, sleeping in the guest house by night. Much later I realized every picture from my honeymoon is of plants.
Stones for the house & fireplaces, 13 total, came from nearby.
The chair, above, missing a spindle, now at the desk in my bay window. It's an American windsor dated 1897 on the bottom.
Family dinners, birthdays, anniversaries, being with my dogs, reading, or lunch alone thru the years on the terrace, above, fill my spiritual well. 
Jenny, my mother-in-law, at right, dead of breast cancer at age 57.
After Miss Louise died Jenny had the chairs, below, in her garden. They are now in my garden.
My competitive Texas tennis days never translated into being a good waterskier.
I spent hours gardening at Lake Rabun. Its landscape designed by a professional. Slowly, intuitively, understanding its paths, evergreen hedges, stone walls, cut-fill, axis, and more. How each room interacts with the outside. How a person's life interacts with a house & its landscape. 
