The site
A four-acre parcel in the Bedford Hills equestrian corridor — the kind of lot where the four-acre baseline zoning gives a designer real freedom to integrate the pool with the landscape rather than squeeze it into a setback.
The brief
Not the biggest pool — the most coherent one. Pool, integrated water features, spa, coping, and planting working as a single composition that reads as part of the estate, with equipment and automation that a service tech can actually maintain for 20 years.
What it took
- Custom gunite shell on stamped structural drawings, sized for the Westchester soil and the NYC East-of-Hudson watershed review
- Integrated water features — sheer descents and scuppers detailed into the pool architecture, not added on
- Premium pebble finish selected for color depth and 15-plus-year service life
- Full Pentair automation — variable-speed circulation, salt sanitation, freeze protection, single-app control
- Equipment room laid out for serviceability: every valve, union, and gauge reachable without dismantling the next item
The result
A pool that disappears into the estate landscape — the highest compliment for this kind of work — with a mechanical package built for the long service life these properties expect.
Planning a Westchester estate pool?
On a larger parcel, the win is integration — pool, hardscape, water, and planting as one plan. More on building in Bedford Hills.
John C. Gedney III
Owner, Gedney Pools, LLC
(203) 302-9920
[email protected]
Darien, CT
CT HIC.0704131 | CT SPB.0000169
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