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Three-story Lowcountry-style lakefront home with stacked porches, seen from the water

Case Studies/Hardwick General Contracting

Lake Sue Retreat, Grand Award Winner

Lake Sue, Orlando, FL · 2026

Hardwick General Contracting's whole-house renovation on Lake Sue won the 2026 Parade of Homes Orlando Grand Award for Remodels. JRP photographed it for the Parade, from the ground, the porches and the air.

Greg Hardwick builds homes around the way people live in them, and the photography follows the same order. We started with how the house is used: the upper porch over the lake, the study with the piano, the breakfast nook in the shutters' light, the pool terrace and outdoor kitchen, and then the elevations.

The delivery ran to 125 frames: every room, the terrace and dock, and a set of aerials that put the house on its lake. They carried the home's Parade of Homes entry in May 2026, and in June the Greater Orlando Builders Association named Lake Sue Retreat the Grand Award winner for Remodels. Hardwick has trusted JRP with its showcase work since the 2023 Parade of Homes; this is the latest.

Client
Hardwick General Contracting
Location
Lake Sue, Orlando, FL
Services
Architectural Photography, Drone Photography, Twilight
2026 Parade of Homes Orlando, Remodels
Grand Award
Whole House Renovation
1st place
Delivered
125 frames
Three-story lakefront home with stacked porches seen from the water
From the lake
Blue Lowcountry home with standing-seam roof, wraparound porch and brick drive
Front elevation
Living room with coffered ceiling, mustard sofa and the stair to the loft
Living room
Navy kitchen with brass hardware, marble island and lake-facing windows
Kitchen
Breakfast nook with plantation shutters and a navy built-in hutch
Breakfast nook
Study with navy walls, glass-front bookcases and a baby grand piano
Study
Primary bedroom with beamed ceiling, fireplace and French doors to the porch
Primary bedroom
Guest bedroom with curtained doors opening onto the lake porch
Guest bedroom
Upper porch view over the lawn, dock and lake
From the porch
Brick-paved pool terrace beside the lake
Pool terrace
Pool terrace with stairs up to the covered porch and outdoor kitchen
Outdoor kitchen
Rear elevation with three levels of porches, from the lawn
Rear elevation
Top-down aerial of the metal roof, pool and dock on the lake
Top-down

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