comfort

Westminster Teak’s Double Lounges
Westminster Teak (Live Oak, FL) manufactures the Horizon double-chaise set to bring a timeless look…
Belgard Offers Stone Fireplace Kits
Belgard (Atlanta, GA) assembles linear fireplace kits made with Weston Stone. Designed for a clean,…
Ledge Lounger Offers the Shift Day Bed
Ledge Lounger (Houston, TX) has designed the Shift Daybed as a poolside retreat in commercial…
MistAmerica Offers MiniCool Systems
MistAmerica (Scottsdale, AZ) has released MiniCool, an outdoor cooling system for residential applications. Designed to…
Life Floor System from WhiteWater West
WhiteWater West (Richmond, British Columbia, Canada) offers Life Floor, a flooring system designed to minimize…
Healing Ways
Through the years, Bruce Zaretsky has designed enough healing gardens that he knows just how comforting they can be for patients, caregivers and loved ones.  But they only work, he notes, when designers keep some basic principles and several user-specific design factors in mind.  
Tuuci Offers the Equinox Cabana
Tuuci (Miami, FL) makes Equinox Cabana structures. Designed to transform any patio, poolside or outdoor…
#17: Rolled-Edge Spa
In decades past, comfort wasn't typically uppermost in mind when spas were being designed and built in conjunction with swimming pools.  Jet placements could be arbitrary, walls were almost always set at 90-degree angles to the seats and, perhaps least thoughtful of all, coping was set up pool-style, with grab edges that hit anyone tall enough to get on an amusement-park thrill ride somewhere in the back, shoulders or neck, making it difficult to relax and enjoy the experience. These days, fortunately,
Spa Strategies
For almost as long as I've been in business, people who are interested in swimming pools have also usually been interested in having a spa or hot tub to go along with it.  It's always been a natural combination, and as watershapers we've found myriad ways to meet thegeneral demand. In the video linked below, I offer a quick discussion of two key factors homeowners need to consider in
Helpful Heat
I've done an awesome amount of painting in the past six months - two bedrooms, two hallways, a den, a kitchen, a utility room and our living room as well as the outside of the front door.  I won't count the two bathrooms, because I painted them last year:  They looked so good that the pressure mounted to bring everything else up to speed. I learned two invaluable lessons along the way. First, having the right