Inter-Fab (Tucson, AZ) offers Designer Series Grab Rails for pool and spa applications. Available singly…
Greenscreen (Los Angeles, CA) manufactures Columns, a free-standing vertical section or a cover for an…
Waterfall Creations (Orlando, FL) manufactures Countertops, stand-alone four-piece structures made for use as poolside bars.…
Poolsmith Technologies (Phoenix, AZ) has launched the Organic pH control system for pools. The easy-to-install…
Haddonstone (Pueblo, CO) has expanded its line of Neapolitan-style centerpieces with the Napoli self-circulating, self-contained…
Basecrete Technologies (Sarasota, FL) offers SlabStitch for the repair of concrete cracks. Designed to transfer…
Lots of pools built in the 1960s and '70s and even through the '80s were surrounded by ribbons of concrete decking of uniform width, all the way around. Frequently, those decks were too narrow to make them of much use for more than walking around the pool: lounge chairs are too long to be set up facing the water, and a poolside table and chairs cover far too much ground to be included. The solution that runs through the heads of lots of homeowners is simply to
Did you ever have a client who knew exactly what he or she wanted in a project, only to change direction once he or she heard the price? That happened with the poolscape discussed in this article - but with an unusual twist. The homeowner, a prominent South Florida businessperson, had purchased the waterfront property with its existing pool. And he wasn't finished: He also purchased two neighboring homes, flattening one to make way for a sculpture garden and setting up the other as staff housing. When we saw the site for the first time, the main residence was
‘Stairs, to borrow an immortal phrase from Rodney Dangerfield, “get no respect.” ’ That’s how Bruce Zaretsky opened his August 2008 column in WaterShapes, then continued: ‘[I]f my observations through the years tell me anything, the stairs set in far too many landscapes are strictly utilitarian objects – no more than a means of getting from one level of a space to another. The only thought that seems to go into some of them has to do with avoiding trip hazards, which is important but hardly the most
One of my favorite destinations in downtown Los Angeles is the Central Library. Not only is it an amazing resource with the books and recordings it circulates to citizens and scholars, but it also houses wonderful display spaces where all sorts of thoughtfully curated exhibitions await visitors. I've stopped in many times since the 1960s and count it among southern California's
