Finished travertine pool deck inside a screen enclosure, looking out across the pool to the lake beyond

Clermont, Florida

Pool deck, sauna terrace and front courtyard

Three areas of one property, rebuilt so the mornings actually work: coffee outside, then the sauna, then the cold plunge.

Travertine: 2,300 sq ft
Concrete removed: 125 sq ft
Areas rebuilt: Three
Location: Clermont, FL

The brief

A morning routine with nowhere to happen

The owners wanted a sauna and a cold plunge, somewhere to sit with coffee first thing, and a pool deck that matched the rest of it.

What they had was a plain concrete pool deck, a bare slope where the sauna was meant to go, and a tired concrete front entrance. The work runs from the front door to the far end of the yard, and the three areas had to read as one property — not three separate jobs that happened to share an address.

The work

Three areas, one property

Pool deck and coping

Travertine throughout, with coping run around the pool edge. It’s the largest single area on the property, and it sets the color everything else answers to.

Pool before the remodel, surrounded by plain concrete decking — BeforePlain concrete deck, straight off the original build.

Travertine being laid around the pool inside the screen enclosure, bedding sand visible at the edge — DuringTravertine going down over prepared bedding.

Second angle of the pool deck mid-installation, stacks of travertine tile waiting on the laid surface — DuringWorking out from the coping so cuts land at the perimeter.

AfterThe finished deck, looking out over the lake.

Sauna and cold plunge terrace

A paver slab cut into the slope to carry the sauna and cold plunge, with stepping-stone walkways linking it back to the seating area where the morning starts.

Crew setting pavers for the sauna slab on a graded slope, lake and screen enclosure behind — DuringSetting the slab on graded, compacted ground — a sauna and a full cold plunge are a lot of concentrated weight, and the base is what carries it.

AfterThe whole run in one walk: travertine patio at the house, past the landscape rock, along the stepping stones, ending on the finished sauna slab.

Front courtyard

125 square feet of concrete taken out and replaced with a laid paver design, landscape rock, and a travertine entrance in 3×3 slabs.

Front entrance with the old concrete broken out and removed, ready for base preparation — DuringConcrete broken out and carted off.

Finished travertine walkway in large format slabs running along the front of the house — AfterThe entrance in 3×3 travertine slabs.

Completed front courtyard with patterned paver field, white landscape rock borders and clipped topiary — AfterThe full courtyard, paver field edged in landscape rock.

BeforeThe existing front yard, with the new layout marked out on the grass.

AfterWalking the finished entrance.

Materials

What went in

Travertine, pool deck and entrance2,300 sq ft
Travertine copingPool perimeter
Paver slab, sauna and cold plungeCTC
Front courtyard paversBuff
Concrete removed125 sq ft

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