I designed and built a natural-style swimming pool on a 2.2 acre property in the mountains above Santa Barbara. I also renovated the main house (not shown) and the guest house which can be seen at the far end of the pool. Completed in 2000, there are 11 waterfalls, a meditation cave, a spa, a stream, and a koi pond. The before view was taken in 1999 and the after was taken in 2001. I named the finished project "El Cielito Springs." I had hoped to make enough money on this spec project to finance my next project (rebuilding a slum neighborhood in DeLand, Florida) but there was a slump in the market and I didn't make any money. DeLand's "Crackdown" still got rebuilt, but only by borrowing hard money from around two dozen private lenders.
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