The rectangular swimming pool sets the pace here. Its straight edge runs beside a long wooden deck terrace, where the grain of the boards softens the harder lines of stone and water. A seating group is placed back from the edge, so the terrace reads as a place to pause rather than a strip of circulation. In the first view, the garden feels built from clear lines, but the planting quickly changes that reading.

Water framed by wood and stone

The pool sits inside a layout that relies on material contrast. On one side, the wooden deck terrace runs in a clean band alongside the water. On another, natural stone appears as paving and as a retaining wall built from block-like elements. The result is not decorative layering but a sequence of edges: water, timber, stone, then planting. That order keeps the garden legible from every angle, especially where the terrace turns toward the side path.

The pool edge is kept tight and calm, with the water surface visible almost to the line of the coping. This sharp perimeter makes the rectangular swimming pool the anchor of the entire composition. It also gives the lounge zone a defined boundary. The chairs and low seating pieces do not compete with the pool; they sit beside it, letting the deck and water share the same visual plane.

A terrace made for sitting, not passing through

The wooden deck terrace is broad enough to hold furniture without crowding the circulation around the pool. The boards run lengthwise, which draws the eye across the garden and makes the terrace feel longer than it is. A pair of armchairs appears close to the water in several images, while other seating is set slightly farther back. That small shift gives the poolside seating area a layered quality: close enough for conversation, far enough to keep the edge clear.

From the deck, the view moves toward a green backdrop rather than an open boundary. Dense shrubs and taller planting line the rear and side of the garden, creating a screen that does more than hide the edges. It presses the pool area into the foreground and leaves the hard surfaces standing out. In this modern garden with pool, the greenery is not a soft afterthought. It is the frame that keeps the straight geometry from feeling exposed.

Stone that holds the garden in place

Along the side of the garden, the natural stone retaining wall introduces a heavier texture. The blockwork reads as a low border wall, almost architectural in the way it marks the transition between levels and planting. Nearby, a narrow path in stone paving continues the same material language in a finer grain. The two surfaces work together: one massing the border, the other offering a passage beside it. That contrast gives the side zone its own rhythm.

The paving is not polished or flashy. It has the rougher, repeated texture of small-format stone, which makes the path feel grounded beside the smoother surfaces of the terrace and pool. Seen against the pool water, the stone looks even more structured. The eye moves from reflective blue to matte grey, then into the foliage. Those shifts are what keep the garden from reading as a single flat surface.

Hout boven het groen

A wooden pergola rises above part of the garden like a measured frame. The vertical posts and open slats are visible against the planting, and in some views they sit close to the retaining wall. Because the structure is light and open, it does not close off the garden. Instead, it marks a point in the layout where height is introduced without adding bulk. The pergola also breaks the long horizontal lines of pool and deck, which makes the whole composition feel less stretched.

The pergola works especially well beside the planted border. Leaves and stems thread through the structure, so the wood reads partly as frame and partly as support for growth. That overlap matters in a garden built on straight edges. The timber gives the eye a vertical pause, while the planting keeps the structure from looking too rigid. Together they create one of the clearest transitions in the project.

Green screening around the pool

Dense green privacy planting lines the garden and softens the view toward the boundaries. The planting is full enough to read as a screen, but it still lets light move through the taller stems and shrubs. This matters in a setting with so much hard material. Without the green backdrop, the pool, deck and stone would stand too starkly apart. With it, the garden gains depth, and the rectangular pool feels nested inside a larger planted field.

The planting also shifts the mood of the side path. Where the natural stone paving could have looked purely functional, it now runs beside layered leaves and textured growth. That makes the route feel part of the garden rather than an edge service path. From the seating area, the eye catches the planted wall first, then the stone, then the water. The sequence is simple, but it gives the garden its structure.

What stays with the viewer is the discipline of the layout. A rectangular swimming pool, a wooden deck terrace, a natural stone retaining wall and a wooden pergola each hold a clear position. None of them tries to dominate. The furniture, the side path and the dense privacy planting fill in the spaces between those elements, so the garden reads as a finished composition built from a few strong materials and a clear line of sight.