Design Elements · Pools & Spas

Pools & Spas: 20 from real Napa & North Bay projects

A pool is a hub — one of the biggest destinations on a property — so everything around it has to connect: where you sit, where you eat, how you get there from the house. I design that function first and start with the view from inside, since you'll see the pool from the kitchen far more often than you'll swim in it. Then planting softens all that coping and deck so the water settles into the landscape. The goal is a pool that looks like the property was designed around it, not one dropped into a lawn.