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LAYERING THE LANDSCAPE
How Mike Farley Optimized a Family’s Visual Experience
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ike Farley of Farley Pool Designs in Denton, Texas, is not the man to contact for a run-of-the-mill pool revamp. The way he sees it, to do the client justice in a redesign, demolition is almost always required. These clients might have known better, having become acquainted with Mike on another pool project 15 years earlier, when they invited Mike over to their new home. There in the yard was an outdated pool. They asked Mike to make it sing.
BLO CKI NG THE VIE W
“I said, ‘No, you need more,’” says Mike. “When we sat in the living room, we could not see anything in the one-acre backyard. The tall retaining wall blocked our line of sight, and all we could see was an unsightly firepit down the hill. There was a boulder water feature—not at all the clients’ style—blocking the view from INS TAL L
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