Malibu Residence

The pool area features a rectangular pool with Santa Barbara stone coping. The pool has color changing lights and underwater speakers. The pool is flanked by a dining and lounging pergola. Columns of molded brick with Santa Barbara stone bases support the wooden trellis above. Steve Handleman lights of Santa Barbara hang between each bay. As an end focal point of this space, I designed a quaint pool bath house using 500 year old church windows and Santa Barbara Stone. One of the outside corners of the pool bath house is an outdoor shower. Hand-turned guard rails line the edge of the Ipe wood deck overlooking the creek below. All of the pottery, as well as, the church window were purchase from our friends at Eye of the Day. A unique feature to this pool area is that there is a vault beneath the pool area containing a generator to power the residence for two weeks. This challenge in design led to me bringing the exhaust stacks inside of one of the pergola columns and venting above. The pool equipment is also located in the vault. Photo by: Wendy Harper