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Room to Bloom

Joel Loblaw

magine a romantic walk down a pier on a summer’s eve – in your own backyard. Joel Loblaw’s landscape studio crafted just that for a Summerhill home, with its clever transformation of an expired in-ground pool into a tranquil cottage escape. A knotty cedar “boardwalk” passes over the concrete foundations of the pool, now veiled

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