East Coast Home + Design - "Amazing Transformations"

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2010 AMAZING TRANSFORMATIONS ISSUE

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A M A Z I N G T R A N S F O R M AT I O N S

Janice Parker Exposed to Infinity - An exposed job

sign sensibilities. The requirements were

very open and exposed. Plants were se-

site required Janice Parker to keep her

clean and modern. After a thorough pool

lected based upon their durability, such

design well edited and disciplined. Her

design assessment, the existing pool

as lilacs, sugar maples and crab apples.

clients recently purchased the property

was removed. An infinity edge pool re-

A small apple orchard was also added.

and found their property was not con-

placed it, and while this is not a typical

All of the granite was hand selected from

ducive to outside entertainment, the

application—infinity to land it impacted

the local Roxbury quarry, adding life to

pool was in disrepair, and the overall

the property with the dramatic modern

the areas surrounding the pool and patio

aesthetic did not fit their personal de-

feeling it was lacking. Lending a much

areas.

different sense, Parker changed the proportions of the pool by lengthening and narrowing its dimensions. Because the yard sits on top of a hill it is

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JANICE PARKER LANDSCAPE DESIGN PO Box 221, Sherman, CT 06784 203.350.4497 janiceparker.com

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