![]() Indeed, Deck and Patio has posted our own projects there. ![]() On Pinterest, for example, posts showcase a wide range of mini pool shapes and amenities. Not requiring as much space or cost as a regular pool, often face fewer building restrictions, and are ideal for small families, properties and budgets. Whether you call it a mini pool, spool, plunge pool, wading pool or cocktail pool, small pools are growing in popularity. “In the following case, the clients’ hopes for a full outdoor retreat - pool, spa, patio, waterfall, custom fire pit - all on a tight budget and created in a tighter space - added to the challenges of dealing with their yard’s slope.” When you’re hoping for a major upgrade that includes lots of special outdoor amenities - and especially if your property presents challenges to adding them - it is really a good idea to get started very early. This also helped open up the space to allow unobstructed views of Long Island Sound. One part of the design expanded the original confining upper and lower patios into both shady and sunny expansive areas. The key was to decide what to keep and what to remove. ![]() The 3-D animation (top left) not only shows what the yard will look like - including from different perspectives - tweaking and changes can easily be changed as the project goes along.įor this completed Long Island, NY, project (top right), the property had existing patios and a pool. “One thing very special about BYOS,” says Deck and Patio’s Dave Stockwell, “is they can be set into a sloped landscape to look almost natural or just plan funky and fun. BYOS 1 and BYOS 2 slides, for example, are configured and designed to fit your plans and ideas. Or you can have a landscaping firm like Deck and Patio design/build a special setting around the slide you choose.īeyond even that, one company makes a slide that can be custom-built to fit your existing landscape or future landscape plans. Of course, you can have a slide, on its own, well-secured to your pool without any special landscaping. Their sizes and shapes have varied, as well as the scope of the project installations - depending on the client’s budget, property size, and the amount of adrenaline rush desired. And such exciting water slides are possible at home, too.ĭeck and Patio has installed such slides on Long Island and the New York Metro area for years (see below). With so much rock and pavers built into the design, we understood it was imperative to soften the impact of these massive structures by scalloping the plants into the hillside with a wide variety of colorful perennial, deciduous and evergreen plant material for a year-round impact.įamilies that have visited waterparks may already be familiar with such names as Vortex, Typhoon, or Cyclone. Especially hard would have been feeling assured that their majestic property’s natural environment would be carefully preserved. “This way, the pool wall became part of a retaining wall system.”ĭeck and Patio designed a curved-steel, reinforced-concrete wall with the strength to withstand the pressure exerted by the slope - and the sheer weight of 20 tons of boulders sitting on the pool beam itself.Īll this would have been hard for our clients to visualize without the computerized plans. “We conceived the freeform concrete wall of a vinyl-lined pool positioned into the hillside,” says Dave Stockwell, owner of Deck and Patio. However, for this award-winning outdoor retreat, that’s just what we did. This involved restructuring the property’s unattractive retaining wall systems - often required on Long Island’s rocky sloping properties - but which are not normally hidden by a body of water such a pool. This Deck and Patio project required that we preserve the natural environment. In addition, we upgraded their pool and spa and added colorful plants and flowers to enhance these vistas. In addition, an equally confining lower patio was enlarged for sunning an outdoor kitchen (at the side of the house) was added for easy entertaining. The extended upper patio - where the clients liked to sit in the shade and enjoy the view - now allows room for lots of comfortable outdoor furniture. The lower area was expanded for sunning an outdoor kitchen was added for entertaining. We showed how we would turn what the client described as a problem area into a feature, by enlarging the upper area, where the client liked to sit in the shade and enjoy the view. We used 3-D animation to show how this multi-level pool area would change. This also helped open up the space to allow unobstructed views of Long Island Sound available on their property. ![]() One part of the design expanded the original confining upper and lower patios. This Deck and Patio project had existing patios and a pool.
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