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Large transitional backyard custom-shaped and stone natural pool fountain photo in Oklahoma City

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Pool fountain - large transitional backyard custom-shaped and stone natural pool fountain idea in Oklahoma City

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The spa is cool in the summer and warm in the winter. A very energy efficient design, the salt-water spa holds 1200 gallons, is heated with solar electricity from the house PV, and the tub is insulated with a 6" cover in winter. photo: Rebecca Lindenmeyr

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Inspiration for a large contemporary backyard tile and rectangular infinity pool remodel in Orlando

Inspiration for a large contemporary backyard tile and rectangular infinity pool remodel in Orlando

Large trendy backyard tile and rectangular infinity pool photo in Orlando

Large trendy backyard tile and rectangular infinity pool photo in Orlando

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Example of a large classic backyard custom-shaped and stone hot tub design in Atlanta

The private lap pool court is directly accessible from each master suite and the open sky, but remains completely secluded from neighbors and the street. © Mark Herboth Photography

Joe Fletcher Atop a ridge in the Santa Lucia mountains of Carmel, California, an oak tree stands elevated above the fog and wrapped at its base in this ranch retreat. The weekend home’s design grew around the 100-year-old Valley Oak to form a horseshoe-shaped house that gathers ridgeline views of Oak, Madrone, and Redwood groves at its exterior and nestles around the tree at its center. The home’s orientation offers both the shade of the oak canopy in the courtyard and the sun flowing into the great room at the house’s rear façades. This modern take on a traditional ranch home offers contemporary materials and landscaping to a classic typology. From the main entry in the courtyard, one enters the home’s great room and immediately experiences the dramatic westward views across the 70 foot pool at the house’s rear. In this expansive public area, programmatic needs flow and connect - from the kitchen, whose windows face the courtyard, to the dining room, whose doors slide seamlessly into walls to create an outdoor dining pavilion. The primary circulation axes flank the internal courtyard, anchoring the house to its site and heightening the sense of scale by extending views outward at each of the corridor’s ends. Guest suites, complete with private kitchen and living room, and the garage are housed in auxiliary wings connected to the main house by covered walkways. Building materials including pre-weathered corrugated steel cladding, buff limestone walls, and large aluminum apertures, and the interior palette of cedar-clad ceilings, oil-rubbed steel, and exposed concrete floors soften the modern aesthetics into a refined but rugged ranch home.

Inspiration for a mid-sized timeless backyard custom-shaped pool remodel in Wilmington

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We needed a crane to install this pool and deck staircase after grading this steeply sloped lot in McLean, VA. Large steeping stones set in grade provide access from the wrought iron spiral staircase and upper patio to the IPE pool deck below.

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