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They’ll Always Have Paris

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When visiting Paris these homeowners found inspiration at the Hotel Plaza Athenee and its signature red awnings and geraniums. They chose Landfare Ltd to design a French garden for their home, complete with multiple natural stone terraces and entertaining spaces surrounded by formal French-style parterre gardens. Red awnings and upholstery, wrought iron furniture and railings, and custom-made copper planters add to the ambiance.

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The Seven Levels of Illumination

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Each landscape project Landfare Ltd. designs and installs follows a philosophy that acts as a guide through the entire project. The goal is to create outdoor living and entertaining spaces that match perfectly with the esthetics of the exterior of each client’s home and the interior design choices the client has made. Going from the indoors to the outdoors should be a seamless transition, and Landfare Ltd. designs achieve that goal.

To make sure that transition works day and night, John Spayde, Landfare Ltd.’s designer, created the Seven Levels of Illumination,™ the company’s approach to lighting. This design concept considers each outdoor space, including the living areas, the property, all gardens and landscape, and the house itself.

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Building With Integrity

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While there are many ways to construct a pool or spa, Landfare Ltd. custom builds to the highest standards to ensure their projects look beautiful, function perfectly and are safe for you and your family.

Extensive Training Ensures Quality For Clients

Landfare Ltd. staff have completed numerous training courses through The Association of Pool & Spa Professionals, receiving a Home Improvement Contractor (HIC) License for building swimming pools. This is not a requirement in Ohio but does reflect Landfare Ltd.’s professional approach to all their projects. To build the best you must have a team of highly trained professionals, and Landfare Ltd. invests in the training and education of our staff to offer only the best to our clients.

A pool may look very nice when completed but the quality and integrity are built underneath the pool. After digging the hole for the pool, we install a steel rebar floor before pouring concrete. These extra steps create a pool structure that will not shift due to hydrostatic pressure. Not all pool companies do that, but we know that our clients expect us to provide the best product, and we do.

Poured concrete walls are 12” thick and finished with Diamond Brite® plaster. Available in many aggregate finishes, this plaster lets us determine the color, brilliance and reflective properties of the pool water. Again, we select every finish to meet the design standards needed to enhance the entire landscape and outdoor living spaces for each home.

See more Landfare Ltd. Pools & Spas here.

Color Creates Drama

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Creating custom designed landscape designs for smaller outdoor spaces is the kind of challenge that our design team enjoys. For this condominium patio we created a stunning water feature that was a focal point in the day, at night, and throughout the year. Designed and built by the Landfare Ltd. team, this unique water feature anchors the patio. To further define this private paradise we surrounded the patio with exotic plantings that are both in ground and in urns. Luxurious outdoor furnishings and accessories add another layer of richness.

Fire and Water

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One of the most enduring design combinations is designing both water and fire elements into outdoor living spaces. For this property, we created outdoor entertainment spaces that offer the family multiple living environments they can enjoy through every season. Adjacent to the fireplace , chains of copper rings are featured in the custom designed water feature. The result: a subtle waterfall that helps create the peaceful atmosphere these homeowners wanted.

Building The Foundation For An In-ground Pool

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The Landfare Ltd. team builds in-ground swimming pools and spas throughout the year. In fact, building during the winter months ensures you will be enjoying your pool when the weather warms up.

Here you see the team, under a protective tent covering, install steel rebar used as reinforcement before concrete is poured. Because steel rebar can be bent we can design curves, angles and even steps to enhance your swimming pool.

The grid pattern is carefully calculated and installed, and tied or held in place to make sure there is no vibration or movement when the gunite (concrete) is poured. Gunite is projected at a pretty high velocity, and any movement in the grid pattern could effect the stability of the pool bottom.

The design and construction of your pool is part science, part engineering and a lot of hard work by our team of professionals.

Is A Plunge Pool Right For You?

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Whether you have a large outdoor area or a smaller backyard, a plunge pool may be the best solution in creating your outdoor oasis. Plunge pools are the smaller more compact version of a custom in-ground pool. Even with their smaller size, they can still offer you the opportunity to enjoy a leisurely lap or cooling floating experience.

Landfare Ltd. will design your customized plunge pool so you get exactly what you want. That could be a pool that is 5 or 7 feet deep or only 3 or 4 feet deep. One that includes bubblers and is heated for year ’round enjoyment. Maybe an in pool seating area to cool you on hot summer days and custom lighting for evening enjoyment. We will create a pool surround that marries beautifully with your home’s design and outdoor entertaining areas. The options are unlimited!

See more of our custom designed pools here.

Outdoor Kitchens Make Summer Dining A Breeze

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Perfect For A Grilling Master

No outdoor entertaining area is complete without its own kitchen. Landfare Ltd. custom designs and builds full service outdoor kitchens. Of course there is a grill, sometimes two. But why stop there? Include a sink, mini-frig, ice maker, cooling drawers, trash container, and storage cabinets to make your outdoor kitchen fully functioning.

You won’t need to step into the house for a thing!

Luxury Pool House

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Our client asked us to build a pool house for their new pool that our team is building. We discussed how they planned to use the pool house, what their family and guests might want, and then we got to work. This new structure is about 2000 SF with glass doors the fully open to the outside. It features a kitchen, bar area, great room with fireplace, laundry and heated floor. An amazing entertaining space!

Luxury Pool, A Must Have

The pool for this family is as luxurious as the pool house. This 18′ x 36′ in-ground pool will be surrounded by stonework that marries with the main house. Heated with salt water, it can be used throughout the year for entertaining and exercise.

Landfare Ltd. creates one-of-a-kind outdoor entertaining areas that enhance our client’s lives. See more of our pools and spas here.

Outdoor Living Spaces Re-imagined

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When a client asks us to re-imagine their outdoor entertaining spaces, we dig deep and create something out of nothing. For this space, we dug six feet below the existing ground level, created a terrace, installed a swimming pool, replaced the existing window with French doors, matched the home’s limestone brickwork, built a surrounding limestone walls for privacy and built a stairway from the new upper terrace to the lower terrace.  That is definitely a space re-imagined!