Outdoor Entertaining: Creve Coeur
Maximizing Outdoor Living
A new pool house, outdoor kitchen, and pergola transformed an existing backyard pool area into a cohesive outdoor living space usable year-round for intimate gatherings or large events.
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Highlights & Features
To create a cohesive outdoor living space utilizing the existing pool and covered porch, our Creve Coeur customers requested a free-standing pool house with a fireplace and television.
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A Pool House for All Season
The new pool house was positioned on the opposite side of the yard from the garage to create a courtyard environment.
Increased Entertainment Seating
Ample seating is positioned underneath breezy ceiling fans, recessed lighting and in view of a large flat-screen television for catching the game or a movie al fresco.
Expanding Footprint
The footprint was also extended with a new natural limestone retaining wall to provide additional seating in a cozy niche.
Comfortable Outdoor Living
The roofed outdoor space is open on three sides with a handsome floor-to-ceiling limestone fireplace on the fourth.
Custom Designed Concrete
A stamped and dyed concrete overlay was applied to the existing pool deck pavement that seamlessly blended the surfaces of the old and new areas.
Highlights & Features
To create a cohesive outdoor living space utilizing the existing pool and covered porch, our Creve Coeur customers requested a free-standing pool house with a fireplace and television.
-
A Pool House for All Season
The new pool house was positioned on the opposite side of the yard from the garage to create a courtyard environment.
-
Increased Entertainment Seating
Ample seating is positioned underneath breezy ceiling fans, recessed lighting and in view of a large flat-screen television for catching the game or a movie al fresco.
-
Expanding Footprint
The footprint was also extended with a new natural limestone retaining wall to provide additional seating in a cozy niche.
-
Comfortable Outdoor Living
The roofed outdoor space is open on three sides with a handsome floor-to-ceiling limestone fireplace on the fourth.
-
Custom Designed Concrete
A stamped and dyed concrete overlay was applied to the existing pool deck pavement that seamlessly blended the surfaces of the old and new areas.
Other Features
- Enlarged covered porch with circular edge to mirror the pool
- New limestone flagstone veneer along the perimeter to compliment the pool coping
- Privacy screen added in between properties
- Preservation of existing irrigation alongside addition of new valves, wires and lines
- New plantings and LED landscaping lighting
Challenges
- Creve Coeur building codes required that the pergola be connected to the house and the pool house to be at least 10 feet away – the exact opposite of the original design intent
- A larger hardscape footprint meant that a new drainage system needed to be installed
- New electricity and water lines to the new kitchen and bar area required extensive rerouting
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Poynter Landscape Architecture & Construction
15815 Jedberg Ln.
Ballwin, MO, 63021
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