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Custom indoor pool room with outdoor fans and beadboard ceiling

This covered pool and spa design by Ryan Hughes Design Build lets in the sun, allows for year round enjoyment of the space, and transitions beautifully to the home’s outdoor space. Luxury features include a screened enclosure, baja shelf, infinity spa, water features, palm trees, and ambient landscape lighting.

St Saviour’s Church in Walton Place Knightsbridge originally designed by Belgrave Square architect George Basevi in 1838 was an interesting and challenging project. The brief to Will Caradoc-Hodgkins of leading London residential architect and interior designer 4D Studio was the conversion of a lofty church directly behind Harrods into a private residence whilst at the same time creating a smaller place of worship for parishioners. This included the unusual request to re-locate the organ and create a massive acoustic wall between the house and the church. However this proved to be small fry compared with the task of supporting the church on 40 hydraulic jacks to allow excavation for an underground swimming pool and games room. The a four storey home with basement swimming pool was owned for six years by Les Misérables and Miss Saigon writer Alain Boublil who sold it in 2009. It has since undergone a makeover to create one of the finest private homes in Knightsbridge and is on the market for £50 million

George Kochukudiyil

Pool with beamed ceiling: Set in a remote district just outside Halfway, Oregon, this working ranch required a water reserve for fire fighting for the newly constructed ranch house. This pragmatic requirement was the catalyst for the unique design approach — having the water reserve serve a dual purpose: fitness and firefighting. Borrowing from the surrounding landscape, two masses — one gabled mass and one shed form — are skewed to each other, recalling the layered hills that surround the home. Internally, the two masses give way to an open, unencumbered space. The use of wood timbers, so fitting for this setting, forms the rhythm to the design, with glass infill opening the space to the surrounding landscape. The calm blue pool brings all of these elements together, serving as a complement to the green prairie in summer and the snow-covered hills in winter.

Swimming pool and relaxtion area; www.guncast.com

Photographer: Anand Jaju

Guncast Swimming Pool designers like a challenge, and when the opportunity arose to create a basement pool in London, it was an excellent opportunity to be involved in such a unique design and pool build. The L-shaped pool is finished to the highest quality with a spa and gym incorporated into the design. The blue lighting presents a unique and dramatic edge to the swimming pool area, while the LED's in the ceiling of the spa encourage a relaxing mood. The spa pool has been set within the columns of basement creating a secluded area for relaxation. Constructing a swimming pool in a basement provided Guncast Swimming Pools with the opportunity for a unique design, utilising the low ceiling beams for lighting and length of the room to create a truly functional pool area with a lasting impression.

Sun gleams off of the custom designed water feature’s iridescent tile by Oceanside in “Peacock.” Stone veneer by MSI Stone wraps around with crisp, clean corners. Pathway tiles are perfectly positioned alongside the pool and waterfall.

William Wright Photography

Custom indoor pool room with outdoor fans and beadboard ceiling

Architecture and Interior Design by PTP Architects; Project Management and Photographs by Finchatton; Works by Martinisation

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Indoor Pool at Wellesley Contemporary project. Architect: Morehouse MacDonald Associates Pool and Spa Contractor: Custom Quality Pools Photo: Sam Gray Photography