Mount Pleasant Magazine Jan/Feb 2015

s I walk from room to

room at 117 Rivergreen Place on

Daniel Island, it’s easy to imagine

the home might have been lovingly

custom built by a fourth-generation

Lowcountry builder.

My eyes light on detail after

detail: crisp shiplap, vaulted ceilings, exposed beams, the

kind of screened porch overlooking the marsh that begs

me to abandon my worldly pursuits and get lost instead

in a faint sea breeze and a dog-eared copy of a Pat Conroy

book.

And it’s also easy to imagine the warm, gregarious man

giving me the tour is that builder – the one who spent

summers growing up learning the art of shiplap and other

hallmarks of Southern coastal homes alongside his grand-

father and father.

But while the home was custom built and the man

standing before me is in fact a custom home builder, his

story in the Lowcountry has only just began. His name is

Chuck Lattif, and he is the local owner of Arthur Ruten-

berg Homes.

At Home

in the

Lowcountry

Arthur rutenberg homes

Story by Julie Sprankles.

Photos by William Quarles.