Poolscapes: Refreshing Ideas for the Ultimate Backyard Resort
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Poolscapes: Refreshing Ideas for the Ultimate Backyard Resort

by Scott Cohen

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Scott Cohen’s Poolscapes: Refreshing Ideas for the Ultimate Backyard Resort.

Poolscapes: Refreshing Ideas for the Ultimate Backyard Resort
Featuring the designs & builds of Scott Cohen’s Green Scene Landscaping & Swimming Pools. Click for website.

Scott Cohen’s Poolscapes

Refreshing Ideas for the Ultimate Backyard Resort

Featuring the designs & builds of Scott Cohen’s Green Scene Landscaping & Swimming Pools.

With over 400 stunning color photos, this book is an informative resource with hundreds of backyard design ideas to introduce you to many possibilities for backyard pools that turn your home into a vacation spot that is the envy of all your friends. Whether you are looking for an intimate hydrotherapy spa, a splash-happy place for family fun, an invigorating exercise pool or an exquisite setting for outdoor entertaining, you will discover it in these breathtaking, high-performance pools and spas. Each chapter highlights a project from Scott Cohen’s portfolio, featuring yards of every size, that have been transformed into extraordinary poolscapes. Glistening infinity pools, Tuscan-style fountains, outdoor waterfalls, and romantic tropical coves are also included-they are all here. This instructive guide illustrates the tips and techniques that go into a perfect pool landscape…tips you or your designer can use in your own landscaping plans. In addition to swimming pool designs and hot tub ideas, this book covers fountains and other water features.

Size: 8 1/2' x 11' | 445 color photos | 160 pp
ISBN13: 9780764337406 | Binding: hard cover

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Scott Cohen’s Poolscapes: Refreshing Ideas for the Ultimate Backyard Resort

1 Deer Creek

Who needs a lap pool when there’s a deep, clear, inviting creek right outside the door? In this backyard, a small stream tumbles down the hillside into the refreshing pool below. Two deer look up to see who’s visiting their quiet home.

2 Lost In Paradise

Do you ever dream about being stranded on a beautiful deserted island? We made that dream come true for one young family with this playful backyard. Story has it they were all out boating one day when they ran aground on some rocks. Now they’re a family of castaways, having one adventure after another on this private island paradise.

3 Blue Lagoon

A misty Hawaiian waterfall and tranquil swimming lagoon provide the inspiration for this tropical getaway. Water cascades over the rocks into a deep grotto pool below. Behind the falls, a hidden slide plunges through the spray into the cool water.

4 Relax and Rejuvenate

Water flows from a trio of fountains into a spacious area below

5 A Toast to the Vine

This spa pours forth a joyful, colorful, and whimsical celebration of all the gifts of the vine.

6 Old California Vista

This Spanish Mission style spa terrace offers an optimal spot for enjoying panormaic sky and valley views.

7 Water Features

This Spanish Mission style spa terrace offers an optimal spot for enjoying panoramic sky and valley views.

8 Top 10 Plants For Pools

Creating a beautiful garden oasis around a swimming pool has several interesting challenges. You want plantings to be colorful and lush, reflecting the ambience of the water they surround, but you don’t want litter to blow into the pool, causing frequent maintenance that requires a lot of hand skimming and filter cleaning. For these reasons, the designers at The Green Scene select varieties of plants that satisfy the need for cleanliness and are also luxuriant, colorful and look great around a swimming pool.

9 Pool Construction 101

Here's a brief overview of the steps involved in the typical swimming pool construction process. This section is intended to give homeowners an idea of what to expect at each of the main steps of building an in-ground concrete (gunite or shotcrete) swimming pool.

10 Flipped Out

What happens when you take a vanishing edge pool and turn it around? You get a stunning, dive-in water feature that’s gorgeous no matter how you look at it.

11 Good Reflections

Searching for inner bliss? An Asian-inspired pool like this might help you find it.

12 French Country Quarry

This sunny hillside pool has the look and feel of a peaceful rock quarry somewhere in the south of France. But the quiet is frequently broken with laughter, as one child after another races down the giant slide and tumbles into the water.

13 Roman Pleasure Garden

This classically inspired landscape is all about style, opulence and old-world luxury. With Italianesque details and elegant water features, the yard is designed for long lazy afternoons and sophisticated evening entertainment.

14 Oasis with a Twist

“I’ll have a spa with a twist, please.” In this entertaining backyard, a martini-shaped spa spills into the pool and festive cocktail glasses dance above a row of colorful ceramic bottles.

15 Libation Sensations

Color and light. Water and flame. This yard, which offers plenty of amusement by day, turns on its real magic at night.

16 Over The Edge

Overlooking the hills of California’s San Fernando Valley, this striking poolscape seems to take swimmers to infinity…and beyond. It’s a great example of the illusion created when water seems to go just a bit too far.

17 Fire and Water

Like a modern temple honoring the primal forces of nature, this melding of fire and water speaks to the soul. Pure, clean, controlled lines contrast against the wild abandon of leaping flames

18 Five Star Fabulous

This sprawling poolscape blurs the line between indoors and out, creating a garden worthy of the courtyard in an old world Spanish palace.

19 Exotic Beauty

This sun-drenched landscape blends a bit of Moroccan spice with the poetic grace of a formal Middle Eastern garden.

20 Sensational Spas

Aaaah...There’s nothing like slipping into the warm soothing bubbles of a spa and feeling your tensions melt away.

21 Vanishing Edge Vista

You don’t need a full-size pool to add vanishing edge drama to your backyard.

22 A River Runs Through It

A small stream wanders through this yard ending in a rocky waterfall that spills into a generous custom-tile spa.

23 Sanctuary in the City

Where would you rather spend the day? In a hot residential backyard surrounded by neighbors or relaxing under the shade in a quiet Tuscan estate? In this project, sophisticated old-world styling transformed a typical urban backyard into an elegant escape in the Italian countryside.

24 Park Place

The view from the pool is perfect, and this coastal California backyard is all decked out for action. Guests are treated to expansive mountain vistas as they relax in the pool or sip cocktails by the fire. Sportier visitors can shoot hoops nearby.

25 Mediterranean Modern

Antiquity-inspired touches meet the pristine shapes of contemporary architecture in this elegant yard. The reflection of old-world columns against still glassy water makes an interesting contrast with the clean lines of the pool and spa. Throughout the yard, water pours forth its magic and fire emerges from generous troughs, like ancient offerings to the elements.

26 Contemporary Classic

This pool/spa makeover took a yard with a 70’s version of “modern” and transformed it into a contemporary composition for today. Now this geometric landscape sports all the right angles.

27 Geometry at Play

A pair of playful hippos cavorts on the lawn, throwing a humorous curve into the lines and angles of this geometric showplace. The hippos say it all: This yard was made to amuse.

28 Sanctuary in the City

Where would you rather spend the day? In a hot residential backyard surrounded by neighbors or relaxing under the shade in a quiet Tuscan estate? In this project, sophisticated old-world styling transformed a typical urban backyard into an elegant escape in the Italian countryside.

29 Park Place

The view from the pool is perfect, and this coastal California backyard is all decked out for action. Guests are treated to expansive mountain vistas as they relax in the pool or sip cocktails by the fire. Sportier visitors can shoot hoops nearby.

30 Mediterranean Modern

Antiquity-inspired touches meet the pristine shapes of contemporary architecture in this elegant yard. The reflection of old-world columns against still glassy water makes an interesting contrast with the clean lines of the pool and spa. Throughout the yard, water pours forth its magic and fire emerges from generous troughs, like ancient offerings to the elements.

31 Water Meets Sky

There’s no better way to enhance a magnificent view than with a vanishing edge pool. When that pool is perched high on the side of a mountain, the effect is almost surreal.

32 Romantic Hillside Jewel

Bling! The glistening surface of this sweeping, fan-shaped pool captures a pure reflection of the sky and surrounding landscape. With no visible edge on three sides, it perches on the hillside like a pristine sapphire lake.

33 Water Meets Sky

There’s no better way to enhance a magnificent view than with a vanishing edge pool. When that pool is perched high on the side of a mountain, the effect is almost surreal.

34 Romantic Hillside Jewel

Bling! The glistening surface of this sweeping, fan-shaped pool captures a pure reflection of the sky and surrounding landscape. With no visible edge on three sides, it perches on the hillside like a pristine sapphire lake.

35 Romantic Hillside Jewel

Bling! The glistening surface of this sweeping, fan-shaped pool captures a pure reflection of the sky and surrounding landscape. With no visible edge on three sides, it perches on the hillside like a pristine sapphire lake.

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Scott Cohen’s Poolscapes: Refreshing Ideas for the Ultimate Backyard Resort

Scott Cohen author of Poolscapes: Refreshing Ideas for the Ultimate Backyard Resort

Scott Cohen is a nationally acclaimed garden artist known for his unique use of recycled materials, expert detailing, and ceramic techniques.
Elizabeth Lexau co-author of Poolscapes: Refreshing Ideas for the Ultimate Backyard Resort

Elizabeth Lexau is a writer who frequently covers landscaping, garden design, and other outdoor topics.
Schiffer Publishing, publisher of Poolscapes: Refreshing Ideas for the Ultimate Backyard Resort
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