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Straight and Narrow
It's been a while since I shared a video with you through WaterShapes.com, but it occurred to me (even after a good, long gap) that this one fit perfectly into the series we once offered on the subject of site access and the ways equipment and the products of demolition and construction can be moved from place to place under
All Lined Up
It is with no small pleasure (and even more relief) that I can announce completion of the digitizing of WaterShapes magazine:  Every one of the articles and columns printed in the 131 issues we published between February 1999 and July 2011 are now all available online in .html format. It has indeed been a monumental task - one that started early last
2014/1.1, January 8 — Incredible Cascades, The City of Fountains, Deck Decisions and more
January 8, 2014 www.watershapes.com ESSENTIAL Natural Patterns Widely recognized as one of the country’s foremost…
On the March
It's been a long time coming:  Just ten days ago, after nearly six months of grinding care and effort, the entirety of the WaterShapes magazine archive is now available online as it originally appeared in print. All 131 issues are digitized in .pdf format now, every one of them from our premiere in February 1999 to our analog swan song in July 2011.  Many of these issues are still available in printed form if you want to complete your collection, but
#6: ‘Hidden’ Skimmer
This was a fun project in lots of ways – not the least of which involved figuring out how to fit a skimmer into the system without completely disrupting the clean look of the coping-only treatment of the pool’s perimeter. Usually, of course, pools at grade level are
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What’s Wrong with This Picture?
I was wandering around the web the other day when I came across this headline:  “City Breaks Ground On First New City Pool In 50+ Years.” Ironically, the town getting the new pool isn’t some backwater where there’s been no growth or progress in the last half-century:  It’s Fort Worth, Texas
Starting Fresh
We’ve been in the pond business long enough that we’ve seen just about everything – the good, the bad and the ugly. But even we were bowled over by the pond we found in the yard on display in the four videos listed below: We ran up against so many problems all in one place that it made sense to us to record our efforts in renovating the watershape and
2012/7.2, July 25 — Whimsical Design, Vanishing Edges, Inspiring Waterfalls and more
July 25, 2012 WATERSHAPES.COM ESSENTIAL Serious Whimsy Developing watershapes and landscapes for residential clients can…
An Enduring Resource
Soon after we published our first-ever Resource Directory last December, we received this comment from a reader:  “Thanks for pulling this together.  I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to work with the big, fat buyer’s guides other magazines put together and sift through all the stuff I really don’t care about to dig out a few important nuggets.  I do have a complaint, however:  Why’d you take so long to