Expansive Midcentury Swimming Pool Ideas and Designs
Selah Pools & SpasA Moderns family dreamscape backyard. Pool, Spa, fire pit, and landscape built for entertainment, with family fun.
Kraft Custom ConstructionAfter completing an interior remodel for this mid-century home in the South Salem hills, we revived the old, rundown backyard and transformed it into an outdoor living room that reflects the openness of the new interior living space. We tied the outside and inside together to create a cohesive connection between the two. The yard was spread out with multiple elevations and tiers, which we used to create “outdoor rooms” with separate seating, eating and gardening areas that flowed seamlessly from one to another. We installed a fire pit in the seating area; built-in pizza oven, wok and bar-b-que in the outdoor kitchen; and a soaking tub on the lower deck. The concrete dining table doubled as a ping-pong table and required a boom truck to lift the pieces over the house and into the backyard. The result is an outdoor sanctuary the homeowners can effortlessly enjoy year-round.
Red Valley Landscape & Construction IncElegant pavilion with an outdoor kitchen and wood burning fireplace inside, and a pool, spa, and gas burning fire pit outside.
Crystal Pools LLCThe swimming pool designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is 125’6” feet long, 21’ 6” feet wide. If the pool had been built in Wright’s day it would have been filled up with fresh water and emptied and refilled 7 days later with no provisions for filtration or heating systems. Silver and his guests however would require a swimming pool with modern conveniences of purification, heating, and cleaning. Dr. Jon Meincke, the founder of Crystal Pools an expert in swimming pool circulation and cleaning systems with six patents and international patents pending would tackle the swimming pool’s challenges by balancing respect for Wright’s design and building a pool with the latest in swimming pool innovation. The original owner, Stevens, an efficiency expert hired Frank Lloyd Wright in 1938 to design Auldbrass to be a working plantation would have appreciated Meincke patented Circ-u-vac System. (See Our Technology) Wright himself would have approved of the in floor system since it would not affect his design and is similar in concept to Wright’s radiant heating for the floors of the Auldbrass home.
JRP Design & RemodelSimplistic hardscape using an exposed aggregate concrete and wells of loose gravel allow the dramatic views to remain the focal point of this desert-oasis inspired back yard. The square pool features Heath Ceramics Crystal Blue Tile and whimsical, drought-resistant landscaping softens the linear design.
Richard Gooding PhotographyInterior design by Pascoe Interiors. Photography by Richard Gooding Photography. PR and direction by Nick Lee of niche pr. Published in several national and international interior design titles.
JW LANDSCAPES LLCIndoor Pool Wading Landing with Cobalt Blue Tile and brick Soldier Course Coping Re Purposed Furniture and Decor Photo by Transcend Studios LLC
O-CREATIVE DESIGNPool house designed to reflect the original architectural language of the main mid-century property. With integral lighting, poolside cooking and refrigeration facilities.
Teague Hunziker Photography©Teague Hunziker.
With just one owner, this mid-century masterpiece is largely untouched and remains much as it originally looked in 1972.
Expansive Midcentury Swimming Pool Ideas and Designs
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