PSW Elements
Stories from the properties we build.
The families and partners we build with, and ideas for planning your whole property. Leaf through the latest, or read by subject below.
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Watching It Take Form: A Bridgeville Property Transformation, From the Homeowner’s Side
At dusk in Bridgeville, the lights come on and the whole yard reads as one place. A family’s transformation in six steps, from the first measurements to living in it, told from the homeowner’s side.
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It Was Never Just a Pool
Almost every conversation starts with a pool. What we’ve learned building these projects: the pool is the easy part, and the ground, the planting and the light around it decide whether you use it.
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A Private Resort on Three Levels: Custom Pool and Outdoor Living Design in Peters Township
The family wanted a pool, a real patio to gather on, and a slide. On a Peters Township hillside, that meant carving out a terrace, building a wall to hold it, and living on three levels.
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Vacation Homes Vs. Vacations At Home
Many families dream of a vacation home. The case for building the getaway where you already live, without the burden of a second property.
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Maximize Flow Between Your Indoor and Outdoor Living Spaces
Five ways to make the rooms inside and the spaces outside read as one home: matching the décor, a room between the two, the flooring, heating and cooling, and light.
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How to Design Your Outdoor Kitchen for Year-Round Use
An outdoor kitchen for every season: fire, cover from the weather, a layout that works, the features worth having, and the lighting that finishes it.
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Three stories on the whole property.
Short on time? These three show how the pieces of a whole property fit together, from the plan to living in it.
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Read by what you're planning.
Pick a subject, or read everything from the newest. Each story is a few minutes, written by the people who design and build these properties.
Planning a property?
Where to start reading.
Most families come to us with one idea, a pool or a kitchen, and leave with a plan for the whole property. These four pages show how that happens.
- i.How a project runs
The PSW EDGE: twelve steps in six stages, from the first conversation to the care after it's built.
Our process → - ii.What every project includes
Every service a whole property needs, through one team.
What sets us apart → - iii.The design beside the build
Renders next to the finished properties, and the yard before beside the yard after.
Before & after → - iv.Paying for it
Financing for the whole project, arranged with a local bank, with guidance from the first estimate.
Financing →
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