The house, front lawn, and parking area are perched on a spoil bank and almost winks at you to bid you welcome and encourage you to come explore the grounds. It is elevated and architecturally designed to accentuate nature’s surroundings. It has a tin roof and wood siding, plaster, and brick on the outside walls. The interior is cypress and smooth white plaster. The front room is modeled after an Acadian cottage.

There is a screen room (accessible only from the interior of the house) with cedar columns shading the copper screen so that typically no sunlight hits the screen, and the screen seems to disappear. The screen room faces the backyard pond and the cypress swamp with a view of some trees that may be well over a hundred years old. There is an alcove in the attic above the bathroom which was used as a bedroom until the bedroom wing was added.

A courtyard including a white plaster lotus fountain designed by the late artist Elemore Morgan, Jr. is bordered by the front room, the bedroom wing, wooden walls, and a serpentine wall inspired by ones built by Thomas Jefferson at UVA. Through the round window in the loggia, one has a great view of the land through the clear opening above the pond.

There is a 200-foot boardwalk into the water with a platform and benches at the end to allow the swamp to be enjoyed without getting in a boat or putting on boots. There are multiple footpaths on the property with one leading to the boardwalk; another leading to vegetable and flower garden spots and a concrete picnic table with 12 seats. It is a replica of picnic tables used in a public park in Lafayette in the late 1960s or early 1970s.