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No. 30 Pools · English Cottage

Rectangular Pool Beside Stone Cottage Garden

Enclosed by a wooden picket fence, this stone cottage features a rectangular pool and a raised spa with a spillover, surrounded by flagstone coping, brick pavers, roses, and foxgloves in an English cottage garden.

Design notes

Cottage pools hide in the garden rather than dominate it. Look for a modest rectangle or plunge pool edged with brick or flagstone, borders of roses, lavender and catmint running right up to the coping, an arbour or picket fence for structure, and a bench under a tree. Dark plaster helps the water read as a reflecting pond.

What to look for

  • The coping — how the deck meets the water sets the whole tone
  • Where the spa sits and how it spills into the pool
  • Night lighting: which features glow and which stay dark
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