About Us

At Calm & Koi, we pride ourselves on a mindful approach that makes the project process as smooth and low stress as possible. This comes from our years starting out, when we were volunteers leading construction and art preservation projects at a Buddhist retreat center on the Sonoma coast. The philosophy we learned there grounded our work style in an ideal of full awareness, decisive action, and honest, straightforward results over ego gratification.

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Owners/artisans/clean pond specialists Kris Klark & Katie Black

Since then, we’ve worked on a huge variety of construction and landscape art projects, making us well versed in our specialties and resourceful enough to adapt and learn new ones.

10+ years of past work includes:

  • Construction and art preservation project leadership on a monumental Buddhist temple on the Sonoma Coast

  • Full-time caretaking of a 50 acre coastal Hawaii property

  • Pond maintenance at a number of homes, estates and wineries

  • Fountain design and construction in styles from Spanish Mission to Modern

  • Design of filtration systems for pond restorations ranging in size from 1,000-160,000 gallons

  • Consulting for contractors, designers and homeowners.