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Matthew Giampietro Garden DesignLarge boulder rock waterfalls and stone staircase into a very large swimming pool for Pugh's Pools in Delray Beach Florida
This is an example of a medium sized world-inspired back custom shaped lengths swimming pool in Miami with a water feature and natural stone paving.
This is an example of a medium sized world-inspired back custom shaped lengths swimming pool in Miami with a water feature and natural stone paving.
Summerhill PoolsInspiration for a medium sized world-inspired back rectangular swimming pool in Dallas with natural stone paving.
Jorge Ulibarri Custom HomesHarvey Smith
Photo of a medium sized world-inspired back rectangular lengths hot tub in Orlando with natural stone paving.
Photo of a medium sized world-inspired back rectangular lengths hot tub in Orlando with natural stone paving.
Keith Zars PoolsHere is another night shot that showcases the LED lights in this San Antonio area pool with waterfall and spa with spa spillover.
Photo of a medium sized world-inspired back custom shaped natural hot tub in Austin with natural stone paving.
Photo of a medium sized world-inspired back custom shaped natural hot tub in Austin with natural stone paving.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignA Memorial area family commissioned us to create a natural swimming pool in their back yard. The family already had a standard pool on premises, but it was isolated in an area of the yard not particularly suited to seating guests or hosting get-togethers. What they wanted was a second, natural swimming pool built that would serve as the hub of a new home outdoor entertainment area consisting of a new stone patio, comfortable outdoor seating, and a fire pit. They wanted to create something unique that would preserve as much of the natural features of the landscape as possible, but that would also be completely safe and fully functional as a swimming pool.
We decided to design this new landscaping plan around a pre-existent waterfall that was already on the property. This feature was too attractive to ignore, and provided the ideal anchor point for a new gathering area. The fountain had been designed to mimic a natural waterfall, with stones laid on top of one another in such a way as to look like a mountain cliff where water spontaneously springs from the top and cascades down the rocks. At first glance, many would miss the opportunity that such a structure provides; assuming that a fountain designed like a cliff would have to be completely replaced to install a natural swimming pool. Our landscaping designers, however, came up with a landscape plan to transform one archetypal form into the other by simply adding to what was already there.
At the base of the rocks we dug a basin. This basin was oblong in shape and varied in degrees of depth ranging from a few inches on the end to five feet in the middle. We directed the flow of the water toward one end of the basin, so that it flowed into the depression and created a swimming pool at the base of the rocks. This was easy to accomplish because the fountain lay parallel to the top of a natural ravine located toward the back of the property, so water flow was maintained by gravity. This had the secondary effect of creating a new natural aesthetic. The addition of the basin transformed the fountain’s appearance to look more like a cliff you would see in a river, where the elevation suddenly drops, and water rushes over a series of rocks into a deeper pool below. Children and guests swimming in this new structure could actually imagine themselves in a Rocky Mountain River.
We then heated the swimming pool so it could be enjoyed in the winter as well as the summer, and we also lit the pool using two types of luminaries for complimentary effects. For vegetation, we used mercury vapor down lights to backlight surrounding trees and to bring out the green color of foliage in and around the top of the rocks. For the brown color of the rocks themselves, and to create a sparkling luminance rising up and out of the water, we installed incandescent, underwater up lights. The lights were GFIC protected to make the natural swimming pool shock proof and safe for human use.
Tropic Island PoolsInspiration for a large world-inspired back custom shaped above ground swimming pool in Dallas with a pool house and concrete paving.
Dallas Kitchen and Bathstone waterfall
Large world-inspired back custom shaped natural swimming pool in Dallas with natural stone paving.
Large world-inspired back custom shaped natural swimming pool in Dallas with natural stone paving.
Botanical VisionsThis is an example of a medium sized world-inspired back rectangular infinity hot tub in Miami with natural stone paving.
Fazoli Brothers Inc.Photo of a small world-inspired back custom shaped natural swimming pool in Miami with a water feature and natural stone paving.
Kanga ConstructionPhoto of a small world-inspired back l-shaped swimming pool in Miami with a water feature and decking.
SoCal Concepts, Inc.Design ideas for a medium sized world-inspired back custom shaped hot tub in Orange County with natural stone paving.
Smart Shade Solutions Inc.Shading a portion of the pool to relax in the shade on hot summer days.
Inspiration for a medium sized world-inspired back swimming pool in Miami.
Inspiration for a medium sized world-inspired back swimming pool in Miami.
Sierra Pacific DesignCustom pool waterfall water feature in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Jamie Schevers.
Photo of a small world-inspired back custom shaped natural swimming pool in Los Angeles with a water feature and natural stone paving.
Photo of a small world-inspired back custom shaped natural swimming pool in Los Angeles with a water feature and natural stone paving.
Castle Florida Building Corp.Pool
This is an example of a large world-inspired back rectangular lengths swimming pool in Miami with brick paving.
This is an example of a large world-inspired back rectangular lengths swimming pool in Miami with brick paving.
Kael Createur de JardinsCréation d'une micro piscine au couleurs chaleureuse avec cascade.
Mise en place d'une végétation verdoyante et colorée
Mise en place d'un day bed au abord de la piscine pour un réel moment e détente.
Pose de deux toiles australienne pour créer un coin ombrager et cocooning .
Define Landscape ArchitectureExisting pool re-framed with new decking to enlarge the pool surrounds, glass balustrading to open up views to surrounding vegetation and lower courtyard. Riased planter with columnar shaped Ficus with up-lighting to trunks.
Intex Design and ConstructionWaterfall feature design and constructed by Intex Design and Construction
Long Beach, CA | Southern California
Inspiration for a small world-inspired back custom shaped natural swimming pool in Los Angeles with a water feature and natural stone paving.
Inspiration for a small world-inspired back custom shaped natural swimming pool in Los Angeles with a water feature and natural stone paving.
The Water's EdgeSide view of alfresco and pool with koi pond.
Inspiration for a small world-inspired back custom shaped swimming pool in Perth with a water feature and decking.
Inspiration for a small world-inspired back custom shaped swimming pool in Perth with a water feature and decking.
Budd's Pools & Spas950 square foot Lagoon shaped swimming pool featuring a sunledge,attached spa and a raised stone veenered water feature.
Designer Bernie McNamee
Photographer Jerry Marino
Affordable World-Inspired Swimming Pool Ideas and Designs
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