Adding a pool

Dive In: Pools by Design Creates Dallas’ Splashiest Custom Pools

By Elaine Raffel / February 18, 2024 /

Leave it to New Leaf Custom Home founders Scott and Melissa Powell to take the concept of full-service and elevate it to a whole new level. Their latest venture, Pools by Design, takes a design-centric approach to outdoor living, creating swoon-worthy spaces as fashionable as they are functional.

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The Rising Costs of Pool Ownership in 2021 And Beyond

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / August 6, 2021 /

By Duke LoperHobert Pools If you’ve always dreamed of having a pool in your backyard, you aren’t alone. Pool ownership is a wonderful experience filled with a lifetime of memories. In 2021, you may be noticing a trend in the cost of living — and that’s the cost of living. While investing in a pool…

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The Big Dig Part 2: Designing a Pool Around a Home is Fodder For Feuding, Says Cooper Smith Koch

By Joanna England / December 8, 2014 /

By Cooper Smith Koch Special Contributor This is the second pool we’ve built and, at the halfway point of this one, I still think the hardest part of the process is choosing the right materials. Even though, after 16 years together, Todd and I generally share the same taste and gravitate towards similar design styles,…

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The Big Dig: Cooper Smith Koch’s Family is Taking The Plunge And Putting in a Pool

By Joanna England / October 6, 2014 /

By Cooper Smith Koch Special Contributor When we bought our Kessler Park house seven years ago this month, we acknowledged that it had a handful of “fatal flaws” that kept it from realizing its full potential. In fact, the house had been on the market for nearly a year before Todd and I first looked…

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