• Haven Pools’ Clean Sweep: Keeping the ‘Gold’ in the Gold Coast

    Great Gatsby! If this isn’t the bee’s knees. Haven Pools swept this year’s awards season with an Oyster Bay swimming pool overlooking Long Island Sound that would have impressed F. Scott Fitzgerald himself. The medals won were:

    • Gold plus Best of Competition from the Northeast Spa and Pool Association (NESPA);
    • Gold from the Long Island Pool and Spa Association (LIPSA), and
    • Gold from the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals (APSP): International Awards of Excellence Program.

    Impressing the judges, for example, was how the salt water pool begins close to the home’s back covered patio. Here an expansive sun shelf flanks a dramatic nine-foot spa. Then just a step down from the spa, bathers enter a lap pool that shares the same water.

    The lap pool, which extends 60-feet, allows swimmers to maximize their body strength. In addition, its vanishing edge — drawing the eye all the way out to Oyster Bay, Centre Island and Long Island Sound —in equal measure restores their spirits.

    Main Pool

    Cascading from the infinity edge, lap pool water falls over intricately laid stone walls into a stunning lower arched main pool. The drop to the surface of the lower pool’s deep end is five feet.

    “We designed such a large drop so it would be safe should anyone be tempted to dive off the edge into the main pool,” says Haven’s Craig Bonawandt. “In fact, when building the pool, this drop caused our biggest challenge. We had to hold up the earth underneath the lap area while we excavated out the deep end of the main pool.”

    Many have noted that the pool, patios and house appear beautifully integrated. This is because the pool and house were built at the same time. Haven Pools created the structure for the pool first, so the landscaper and pool designer, Kevin Murphy of Kean Landscaping, could build the numerous terraces around the house and pool simultaneously.

    Pool

    Separate Functions for Pool and Spa: The spa and lap pool are hydraulically separate from the main pool allowing Haven to winterize the main pool at the end of summer, but allow the clients to exercise in the lap pool and relax in the spa later into the season. Titanium heat exchangers heat the entire project via energy efficient heat from the main power plant in the house.

    Custom Spa and Pool: Haven created the spa to hold eight people; it includes a King’s Chair and 16 jets. The spa does not need to run during the winter as we built a separate gunite spa outside of their master bedroom for year long use.

    Custom Spa and Pool: Haven created the spa to hold eight people; it includes a King’s Chair and 16 jets. The spa does not need to run during the winter as we built a separate gunite spa outside of their master bedroom for year long use.

    Pool and Sun Shelf: The depth of the lap pool is four feet at each end, and five feet in the middle. For lighting, there are mini LED lights in the sun shelf which holds four to five inches of water. This makes it ideal for relaxing in a lounger or stretching out in its cool water while sun bathing.

    Pool and Sun Shelf: The depth of the lap pool is four feet at each end, and five feet in the middle. For lighting, there are mini LED lights in the sun shelf which holds four to five inches of water. This makes it ideal for relaxing in a lounger or stretching out in its cool water while sun bathing.

    Gunite Pool Interior: The inside of this majestic pool is finished in a custom blend of “River Rok” pool plaster. This tough and time-resistant surface is intended to resemble Mother Nature in all her glory. The decking and coping around the pool are New York State bluestone. 

    Gunite Pool Interior: The inside of this majestic pool is finished in a custom blend of “River Rok” pool plaster. This tough and time-resistant surface is intended to resemble Mother Nature in all her glory. The decking and coping around the pool are New York State bluestone.

    Now how’s that for the cat’s meow!