Up for the Challenge
With the site's multiple levels and the client's high demands, this project may have said, "challenge," but this designer saw opportunity.
By Rebecca Robledo
Design/Construction Editor

What else would you call someone who takes clients’ needs (stated and unstated) as well as their tastes, preferences and property requirements, and translates them into functional artwork?

Take, for instance, our inground-pool clients’ backyard. Broken up into three small, irregularly shaped terraces, its flat areas are already used by items the clients don’t want to move: an existing patio near the house and playground equipment off to the side. Plus, they weren’t exactly offering up the most generous budget.

Ron Coker Jr., vice president of Master Pools by Artistic Pools in Atlanta, took these challenges and turned them into a two-tiered, freeform aquascape, featuring brickwork to tie it into the existing hardscape.

The design came in over budget, at $65,920. That’s excluding a wish list that would add approximately $17,000 to the cost. But given the site, Coker figured he could do it for no less.
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