Featured Project
1800s Farmhouse Pool & New Addition
A heritage Central Virginia farmhouse — preserved, expanded, and given a modern outdoor living center. Designed in-house and built end to end.
Location
Central Virginia
Project Type
Design-Build
Property Era
1800s + New Addition
Scope
Plan · Pool · Walls · Deck
The Challenge
Honor the heritage. Build for today.
The owners had inherited an 1800s Central Virginia farmhouse and were adding a modern wing. They wanted an outdoor living center that would feel native to the land — a pool, a travertine deck, and structural walls that would hold the grade without fighting the historic character of the original home.
The new addition was being framed when we walked the site. Every decision — pool placement, utility runs, retaining walls — had to coordinate with the contractor next door, on a property that had been settling for over a century.
The Design
Drawn before a stone moved.
Every Snow Knows project moves through our in-house 3D design process before construction begins. The owners walked through the finished space — pool placement, deck materials, planting beds, sight lines — and signed off on every sheet of the master plan.
“You don’t add a pool to an 1800s farmhouse the way you’d add one to a new build. The grade, the drainage, the way the house breathes — we designed around all of it before we ever broke ground.”
The Snow Knows Way
The Build
Phased, coordinated, in-house.
Snow Knows crews handled excavation, drainage, cinderblock walls, utility trenching, deck installation, and finish grading. Coordinated daily with the addition contractor so neither team ever got in the other’s way.
The Result
Render to reality.
The finished pool sits exactly where the design plan placed it. Travertine deck, raised spa, retaining walls that hold a graceful grade behind the new addition. From signed cover page to drone aerial — the same family team carried it the whole way.
Project Scope
What we designed and built.
- In-house 3D landscape design + signed master plan
- Pool excavation and cinderblock walls
- Travertine pool deck with raised spa surround
- Cinderblock retaining walls (stepped grade)
- Site drainage and utility trenching
- Coordination with the new-addition contractor
- Stone-veneer features and accent walls
- Finished landscape grading + plantings
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