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A Family’s Space for Outdoor Living in Media, PA
Chris Volk worked with the Cilli family to develop a luxury outdoor living space at their home in Media, PA where the focus is water....Continue reading→
How Modern Art Brought Us Today’s Hottest Pool Designs
Modern style is the hottest design trend in swimming pools and outdoor living spaces. It’s a style with deep roots in Twentieth Century Modern art....Continue reading→
Plunge Pools and Swim Spas: Luxury Pools Go Small
Make (Less) Room for these Little Pools (plunge pools) that Turn Small Yards into Posh Daily Retreats When The Wall Street Journal announces plunge...Continue reading→
Is Expert Pool Maintenance a Luxury?
Consider these 3 Risks before You Decide Too many people buy an in-ground swimming pool and then treat paying for routine water and pool maintenance...Continue reading→
5 Steps to Make a Swimming Pool a Luxury Pool
How do you achieve that ultimate value—the luxury pool effect. In previous articles we’ve looked at the well documented benefits—physical, mental, social and spiritual—that water...Continue reading→
LSI and Pool Water Balance Made Easier
Water balance starts with understanding LSI: the Langelier Saturation Index. I admit I’m a nut about maintaining safe and clean pool water. I know how...Continue reading→
Is It a Spa or Hot Tub, or Maybe an Ahhhhh Tub?
Do you know when to call it a spa or hot tub? For a long time the words were used interchangeably, but now there’s a...Continue reading→
We Need to Talk about Pool Construction
It’s time we had a serious conversation about pool construction. We’ve been focused for some time here at the WaterSpace blog on the elements and...Continue reading→
Connect the Dots to Achieve Unity in Your Landscape Design
This 6th principle of landscape architecture poses a question you need to ask early and often. The Principle of Unity can seem terribly abstract, but...Continue reading→
Design for Movement in Your Outdoor Living Space
Eyes move, minds move, and people enter the flow of space. Pools, buildings, and landscapes seem so firmly anchored to the earth that Movement—the fifth...Continue reading→
Rhythm Brings Order to Your Outdoor Space
How Landscape and Architecture Set the Tempo in Space Much as Emphasis sets the stage and brings focus to your WaterSpace, Rhythm—the fourth of Six...Continue reading→
How Emphasis Sets the Scene for a Large Country WaterSpace
Emphasis: Setting the Stage for Outdoor Entertaining You feel the good mood approaching as you enter the covered porch at the rear of this country...Continue reading→
The Art of Emphasis: How Focus Adds Appeal to Your Outdoor Living Space
Emphasis: It’s like creating a stage for the stars of your WaterSpace Design. If you’ve recently sold or read about selling a house, you’re probably...Continue reading→
Whisper and Shout: Use Contrast to Add Interest to Your WaterSpace Design
Things get livelier when you add contrast to your outdoor living design Wherever you add an unexpected change in color, or shape, size, or texture,...Continue reading→
Keep Your Balance: the First Principle of Good WaterSpace Design
Use balance to pull together all the elements in your outdoor living space Just as we can’t stand erect without balance, humans can’t stand an...Continue reading→
Design Choices: Follow these 6 WaterSpace Design Principles
We all want to have design choices, to make our own choices. But have you ever been overwhelmed by too many choices? It happens a...Continue reading→
Philadelphia’s Fairmount Water Works – America’s Most Famous WaterSpace
‘A Place Wondrous to Behold’: How Philadelphia’s Place for Pumping ‘Utility Water’ Became America’s Most Famous WaterSpace In the mid-19th century, Philadelphia’s Fairmount Water Works...Continue reading→
Take a Dive Into the Science of Water
Let’s look at the science of water. This article is the second in the “Just Add Water” series inspired by Wallace J. Nichols, author of...Continue reading→
LED the way: Light your Nighttime WaterSpace with New Outdoor LEDs
A host of new LED lights are making outdoor lighting more accessible, affordable, and a lot safer than those 120-volt wires running in conduit under...Continue reading→
Just Add Water: The Science of Water and Wellbeing
Let's look at the Science of Water and Wellbeing. This is the first in a series of articles inspired by Wallace J. Nichols, a PhD who has turned his passion for water into his life’s workContinue reading→
Creating Harmony Through Architecture, Water and Space
Let’s explore how to create harmony through architecture, water and space. In our series on creating your own WaterSpace, we’ve focused so far on the...Continue reading→