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This Minnesota Artisan Tour showcase home graces the shores of Lake Minnetonka. The home features an impressive amount of natural stone, which accentuates its traditional coastal aesthetic. ORIJIN STONE Percheron™ Travertine is used for the expansive pool deck, raised patios, as well as for the interior tile. Nantucket™ Limestone is used for the custom wall caps, stair treads and pool coping. Wolfeboro™ Granite wall stone is also featured. DESIGN & INSTALL: Yardscapes, Inc. MASONRY: Blackburn Masonry BUILDER: Stonewood, LLC This Minnesota Artisan Tour showcase home graces the shores of Lake Minnetonka. The home features an impressive amount of natural stone, which accentuates its traditional coastal aesthetic. ORIJIN STONE Percheron™ Travertine is used for the expansive pool deck, raised patios, as well as for the interior tile. Nantucket™ Limestone is used for the custom wall caps, stair treads and pool coping. Wolfeboro™ Granite wall stone is also featured. DESIGN & INSTALL: Yardscapes, Inc. MASONRY: Blackburn Masonry BUILDER: Stonewood, LLC PHOTOGRAPHY: Landmark Photography

This Minnesota Artisan Tour showcase home graces the shores of Lake Minnetonka. The home features an impressive amount of natural stone, which accentuates its traditional coastal aesthetic. ORIJIN STONE Percheron™ Travertine is used for the expansive pool deck, raised patios, as well as for the interior tile. Nantucket™ Limestone is used for the custom wall caps, stair treads and pool coping. Wolfeboro™ Granite wall stone is also featured. DESIGN & INSTALL: Yardscapes, Inc. MASONRY: Blackburn Masonry BUILDER: Stonewood, LLC This Minnesota Artisan Tour showcase home graces the shores of Lake Minnetonka. The home features an impressive amount of natural stone, which accentuates its traditional coastal aesthetic. ORIJIN STONE Percheron™ Travertine is used for the expansive pool deck, raised patios, as well as for the interior tile. Nantucket™ Limestone is used for the custom wall caps, stair treads and pool coping. Wolfeboro™ Granite wall stone is also featured. DESIGN & INSTALL: Yardscapes, Inc. MASONRY: Blackburn Masonry BUILDER: Stonewood, LLC PHOTOGRAPHY: Landmark Photography

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This Minnesota Artisan Tour showcase home graces the shores of Lake Minnetonka. The home features an impressive amount of natural stone, which accentuates its traditional coastal aesthetic. ORIJIN STONE Percheron™ Travertine is used for the expansive pool deck, raised patios, as well as for the interior tile. Nantucket™ Limestone is used for the custom wall caps, stair treads and pool coping. Wolfeboro™ Granite wall stone is also featured. DESIGN & INSTALL: Yardscapes, Inc. MASONRY: Blackburn Masonry BUILDER: Stonewood, LLC This Minnesota Artisan Tour showcase home graces the shores of Lake Minnetonka. The home features an impressive amount of natural stone, which accentuates its traditional coastal aesthetic. ORIJIN STONE Percheron™ Travertine is used for the expansive pool deck, raised patios, as well as for the interior tile. Nantucket™ Limestone is used for the custom wall caps, stair treads and pool coping. Wolfeboro™ Granite wall stone is also featured. DESIGN & INSTALL: Yardscapes, Inc. MASONRY: Blackburn Masonry BUILDER: Stonewood, LLC PHOTOGRAPHY: Landmark Photography

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Mesh covers are the most common way to safeguard your pool during the winter. A winter cover has to be strong and made of good quality material. There are many manufactures of pool liners and mesh safety covers, and mesh covers can be ordered according to the initial pool liner measurements. Gappsi can supply and install a mesh pool cover, we are authorized dealers and installers for every brand, from Loop-Loc, Merlin, Lathem, Vynall and many other others. Manufactures make many grades of covers, the better the grade the more expensive to cover is. Tight thin mesh and strong fibers used to manufacture the covers will give your pool cover the quality to last for many years. Swimming pool winter covers installed by Gappsi will give you all the protection, security, and safety you need for your family, pets, and neighbors. Winter pool covers are manufactured to let the water from the rain drain through. Also, it allows you to put your pump in the middle of the cover and allow the extra water in the pool to come through and get pumped out. Winter covers are manufactured in all mesh or solid rubber with a 24x24 mesh hole in the center to let water drain into the pool. Anchors are installed in the patio about 36 inches away from the swimming pool. The way they are installed is by drilling a hole in the patio, brass anchors are slid through, and the cover is then attached to the anchors. If the patio is not installed correctly, the cover may become loose and it will not be as safe as it should be. The Gappsi way of installation starts with the proper installation of the patio. Four foot wide slabs with reinforced rebar are always installed around the swimming pool to prevent settling of the patio, then the finished paving material is installed over the concrete base. The Gappsi installation of the safety pool cover is then installed over the patio by drilling holes straight through the finished paving material all the way down into the concrete base. A sleeve is installed into the hole about 6 inches into the patio going through the 4 inches of concrete base and further in the ground, and a brass screw pin is then installed into the pipe. By unscrewing the brass screw pin; it comes up above the patio and allows for the cover ring hooks to attach to the brass screw. After this is all done for every strap of the cover, your Gappsi installed pool cover is safe to walk on with no chance of breaking.

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This partially wooded, acre and a half lot in West Dundee presented many challenges. The clients began working with a Landscape Architect in the early spring, but after not getting the innovative ideas they were seeking, the home builder and Architect suggested the client contact our landscape design/build firm. We immediately hit it off with the charismatic clients. They had a tall order for us: complete the design and implement the construction within a three month period. For many projects this would be a reasonable time frame. However construction delays and the coordination of multiple trades left a very short window to complete the work. Beyond the tight time frame the site required specific care in preserving the many mature surrounding trees, as well as addressing a vast grade change. Over fifteen feet of grade change occurs from one end of this woodland property to the other. All of these constraints proved to be an enormous challenge as we worked to include and coordinate the following elements: the drive layout, a dramatic front entry, various gardens, landscape lighting, irrigation, and a plan for a backyard pool and entertainment space that already had been started without a clear plan. Fortunately, the client loved our design ideas and attention to detail and we were able to mobilize and begin construction. With the seamless coordination between our firm and the builder we implemented all the elements of this grand project. In total eight different crews and five separate trades worked together to complete the landscape. The completed project resulted in a rewarding experience for our firm, the builder and architect, as well as the client. Together we were able to create and construct a perfect oasis for the client that suited the beautiful property and the architecture of this dream home.