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Installing a adult male - made pool and flow in a rude setting require punctilious landscape design and a bit of head game to make it appear as though Mother Nature herself was the creative person . That was the undertaking faced by landscape decorator Nick Williams of Nick Williams & Associates when the possessor of this home in Ojai , California , asked him to make over their backyard so it would contemplate the lulu of the surroundings . The grand offer stunning views of the Topa Topa Mountains , but was exanimate and uninspiring , with little more than a large concrete pool .
Nick Williams of Nick Williams & Associates often incorporate a “ shoreline ” in his landscape design , working back away from the pool with bed of gravel , urine plant , and scatter of mixed stone and get to make the whole scene look wholly born . Photo by : Nick Williams & Associates .
“ The homeowners want to extend the visual experience and integrate the property with its natural surroundings . They decided to do away with the existing pool and replace it with a rude - fashion pocket billiards nestled in a quarry of tumbled boulders and fed by an contrived mountain flow and small waterfall , ” pronounce Williams .
The poolscape also includes an adjacent spa and stream , accented by artistically crafted simulated boulders combined with nature ’s own . Photo by : Nick Williams & Associates .
The transmutation begin by filling in the old consortium , removing the rampart around it , and building the newfangled syndicate farther back in the pace to blow up the space . This not only widen the prop , it also eliminated all stilted boundaries . With this more expansive space , Williams and a team of rock specialists , masons , earthworkers , and pool installers were able to make a innate - dash pool and watercourse accented by both literal and faux boulders . An adjacent spa was also add and made to look like a low pond . At each ending of the pool is a natural pebble beach that softly lead down into the cool , novel waters . Native plantings at the pool edges make a seamless conversion into the landscape around it .
A close - up of the beach unveiling shows the various sizing of pebbles used to create a natural shoreline . Photo by : Nick Williams & Associates .
For many years , Williams has specialized in designing poolscapes that mirror and merge seamlessly with the geography of their surroundings . His bounteous challenge during this translation was to organize the activity of five different contractor and artists to create the poolscape . Many of the boulders are simulated and were handcrafted and sculpted onsite by artisans to create the mental picture that they always belonged there . The mechanical equipment for the pool is hidden behind a bulwark attached to a guest theatre to maintain the feel of a natural pondscape . To produce the pebble beaches leading into the pool , Williams mix unlike types of Lucy Stone with firearm of concrete in various sizing to simulate a natural shoreline . In positioning the stones , he considers how loose interacts with the water supply to create the illusion of depth in certain areas by transition from swooning Lucy Stone to darker colors .
Trees were handpicked and placed purposefully , and grandiloquent rushes and grasses were planted to lead the eye out into the conterminous landscape . Photo by : Nick Williams & Associates .
This amazing tending to point , with every lineament thoughtfully sculpted as if by nature , lead in a reliable a work of nontextual matter . To see more of Williams ’ poolscape instauration , visitNickWilliamsDesigns.com .
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