Our team has built some incredible outdoor entertaining spaces. If you’ve been thinking of expanding your outdoor entertaining space and enjoy our style, please reach out. We are open to adding some outdoor (or indoor) kitchens/bars/wine rooms or extensions of your entertaining area to our 2025 building line-up. Here are a few ideas to jump start your imagination of what could be possible:
The Pleasant Valley Rustic Poolside “Saloon”
Buckley Inn Pool & Entertaining Spaces
The homeowners were looking for an entertaining family oriented area for their back yard. The homeowners association was a treat to deal with – with creativity and planning, our team was able to create just the right magical environment for this family! Sandi wanted to name this one “Buckley Family Fun Land” but the homeowner wasn’t keen on that long of a name, so it became known as the”Buckley Inn” a place for everyone to gather and enjoy life and each other. Beautifully done!
The pool is a hybrid, by the Pool Guy, Al Curtis, in his signature style. That means the main part of the pool is a vinyl liner with the Tru-Tile Ceramic Tile system and specific style liner by Latham Industries. The sun ledge, entry steps, deep end step and grotto are gunite, giving this pool the best of both worlds. The pool equipment features two pumps, three filters, a heater for quick heating of the spa, and a heat pump to maintain the preferred ambient water temperature of about 85 degrees throughout the summer.
Our stonework has taken on a signature style. Instead of using one type of decorative stone for everything, our team combines many different styles and textures, adding marbles, stones, castings of different objects and shapes, and hand carves as well to create a truly unique blend of aesthetics. Signage for this project was created by db Designs, and landscaping was done by Ask the Garden Gal, Jodi Cook. Frank DiPiazza was instrumental in creating the swim up bar and finishing the interior carpentry, and of course this project was led by Al Curtis, designer, builder, his right hand and daughter Jesse Curtis. Annie Curtis created most of the stone work and spa surround. Karen Olson is responsible for carving and bluestone/tile work and of course “Sparty” a fitting character at this pool as we know that one of the homeowners was Sparty back in his college days! Mark Curtis installed the mechanical elements and plumbing making sure this pool can function as beautifully as it does!
Wilderness Resort
A Wilderness Resort for the entire family to enjoy!
This family was looking for something simple and rustic, yet awe inspiring and fun for the kids and the entire family to enjoy. After they found out company online they knew that this was the style pool and backyard space they were looking for. At some point “pigs” came up, and we learned why pigs hold a special place in their family…so we were able to add some subtle and plentiful pig references into the project as well~!
