Free planning guide
Before the First Stone
A homeowner’s planning guide to luxury outdoor living in Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania
What you will take away
Write this before anyone prices the water.
- How Mid-Atlantic lots actually behaveClay, salt, grade, and water
- Why the pool has to belong to the houseNot sit apart from it
- Seven questions to ask before you hire anyone
- A one-page worksheet to bring to a property walk
- 01 · The unused yard is not a plan
- 02 · Read the lot before you pick a pool
- 03 · The pool is a room, not an object
- 04 · Stone and planting are one job
- 05 · Design for 8 p.m., not the listing photo
- 06 · Materials that survive here
- 07 · Seven questions before you hire
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