The entrance provides a large and welcoming landing. It allows the visitors to enjoy the grasses, boxwoods and Persicaria ’Firetail’
The house was repainted to compliment he plantings and paving choice. Black accents and shutters were added with white trim, now the planting really pops!
The removal of old pavers & overgrown foundation plantings provided a clean plate to the entrance. We used porcelain pavers, widened the path, and included an arrival landing. New planting was added to include a curtain of grasses to provide a separation from the road. LED lighting along the path corner tree and stepping stone steps for a second entrance to the pool from the other side.
A modern pool house was designed by Mariane Wheatley-Miller to include using corrugated galvanized steel with cedar. A barn door and shuttered windows with interior and exterior lights.
With the use of grasses we create a private and secluded seating area for friends to hang out around the fire. The grasses pick up the red of the Adirondack chairs and sway gracefully in the wind almost like being at the beach.
Large seating area was added to accommodate sofas, chairs, and umbrellas. In the background, we added a large firepit area for family gatherings, and next to raised galvanized troughs for planting vegetables. A perennials plant bed wraps around to screen the vegetable garden for the winter months.
Now that the planting has matured the design intent shows the soft and welcoming planting along the pathway. Throughout the year the plants provide interest, colour and texture.
The pool exterior originally had a 2ft wide poured concrete apron around three sides and 6ft at the end. We added a pool coping to conceal the white pool liner band and porcelain pavers extended for more space, better safety, and large seating areas for entertaining.
The newly planted entrance of perennials and a curtain of grasses for privacy at the doorway. LED lighting lits up the pathway and uplights the tree on the corner, stepping stone steps were added to the far corner for you can enter the pool from this side.