Designed another pool yesterday, pool house too, though it wasn't requested. Pool house along with decking & pool shapes were 'self-evident'. Also 'self-evident' was the master bedroom bay window becoming French doors leading to a new terrace flowing to the new pool.
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Another meeting must take place after Pinterest boards have been exchanged.
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That meeting will include: clients, pool contractor, general contractor, & me.
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Pool, decking, & pool house dimensions will be lined/flagged on site.
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And, the interior of the pool will be arranged along with color choices.
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Ironically, choosing the pool's interior will take the most time.
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Garden design is all about contrasts, and repetition, exactly why these umbrellas 'work'.
This client, above/below, spends a great deal of time in the Caribbean and wanted those colors. She also knew she wanted a rectangular pool, he wanted turf around the pool. After that, I was on my own.
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Creating the curve, below, was inspired from their new kitchen with marble topped island in the same shape. Bulls-eye, there was the contrast.
More than choosing paint color, which you live with for years before changing, designing pools is a single shot.
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Often, I'm not the 1st person designing the pool. That person typically works for a pool company.
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My scope is from the center of the home to the property lines.
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What does that mean in real life? The 1st pool designed was a Gilligan's-Island-Wig-Wam-Waterfall-Snaking River-Infinity Edge-Gobs of Stone-Trendiest Tiles of the Moment-Landed From Mars Behind the House entity.
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Oddly, I've never worked a site needing that pool. Would love the chance ! Less the trendy tiles & horrible stone configurations, instead more of a lost- world- found-only-great-literature-can-describe.(Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Welty, Nabokov, Byatt, Austen, Forster, Woolf, honestly, why think small.)
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Lawn, above, is not sickly, just has plenty of visits from the new puppy!
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Pics taken in client garden last month. We built the pool 2 years ago & are adding a perennial garden.
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Tara Dillard & Associates Design: farm to city pied-a-terre.
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