Natural Stone, Garden, Pool Decks, Tarzana, California, CA

Nick Williams' designs
featured in new book

Dream Pools
by Deborah K. Dietsch

For more information about the August 2002 Sunset Magazine feature on Nick Williams' backyard design, click at left.

	"What a Dozen Volunteers Can Do in One Weekend" [1982 July]
	"Splish Splash Shoot" [1986 June]
	"Their own Acapulco swim-up bar" [1986 August]
	"Behind the wall, a quieter entry garden" [1987 March]
	"Brick-lined pizza oven" [1988 May]
	"New look for old pools" [1988 July]
	"Poolside barbecue" & "inground pool" [1988 Summer]
	"They carved terraces for spa, lap pool, sandbox" [1990 September]
	"This oasis is a spa retreat" [1992 June]
	"These pools invite you to wade in" [1992 July]
	"Built-in headboards as bedroom sculptures" [1993 Feb]
	"Southern California dream store?" [1993 May]
	"The changing western home" [1993 May]
	"Recontoured yard used recycled soil in barn" [1993 June]
	"Hillside decks make the most of sloping sites" [1993 July]
	"A new aged garden" [1993 Sept]
	"Privacy on a busy street" [1993 Nov]
	"Western home wing wall & wine wall" [1994 June]
	Sunset Magazine's Idea Gardens [1999 May]
	"New life for old pools" [1999 June]
	"Hilltop Haven" [2000 Feb]
	"Designing with succulents" & "Fantasy gardens" [2002 Spring/Summer Garden Guide - 2 articles]

Sunset Magazine's non-dated Articles

	"Chinese smoker oven"
	"Walls, boulders, ferns...instead of ivy"
	"Remodel an A frame? It's a challenge."
	"Grand landscape made room for turnaround and parking"
	"Stuccoed column overhead" & "Big post, big beam, plenty of open sky" [2 articles in Sunset Magazine's Patio, Roofs and Gazebos]
	"Gazebos, back yard temples, and other friendly garden gathering places"
	"They made the most of only 22 feet"
	"Plants, stone and multiple levels gives a more natural look"
	"Miracles" [Sunset Magazine's Ideas for Great Patios and Decks]
	"Learning to live with bad concrete"
	Sunset Magazine's Patio Roofs and Gazebos

For more information about the L.A. Times Living Section feature on Nick Williams' backyard design, click at left.

	Family Circle [May 1978] \| "Getting a lot for a little backyard"
	Home Magazine [1988 March] \| "Landscaping for curb appeal"
	Homeowner [1988 May] \| "Front of house rejuvenation"
	Better Homes & Gardens [1988 June] \| "A kennel with class"
	Home and Garden Magazine [1989 March] \| "Sensational pools & spas"
	Garden Idea & Outdoor Living Magazine [1989 Summer] \| "Lap lane"
	Home and Garden Magazine [1989 Nov] \| "Canyon country"
	Practical Homeowner [1989 Aug] \| "Island in the sun"
	Practical Homeowner [1989 Nov] \| "Driveways that deliver"
	Valley Magazine Home and Lifestyle [1992 Sept] \| "Boundless Backyards"
	Valley Magazine Home and Lifestyle [1993 March \| "The tale of two landscapes"
	Ventura County's Home Living Newspaper [1993 Oct] \| "Labor of love replaces blah with classic"
	Women's Day Ideas Series [1996 June] \| Additions and Decks
	Pasadena Star News [2000 April] \| "A source of inspiration"
	Architectural Digest [2001]
	Los Angeles Times [2001 March] \| Turning Lifestyles Inside Out

	Annual Western Pool and Spa Show [1987] "3rd Place on Residential Pool Category"
	National Spa and Pool Institute Design Award [1991-1992] " Refreshment to the Mind", "Quiet Beauty", "Delight to the eye".
	Ventura County Fair Floriculture Center - 1st Place
	National Spa and Pool Institute Design [1993] "Best Residential Concrete Pool"
	15th Annual Western Pool and Spa Show [1993] "1st Place on Best Design of Remodeled Pool"
	L.A. Beautiful Award
	Sunset Magazine's 2000 Western Garden Design Awards "Award of Excellence"
	Honorary NAWIC Member, October 1995 "San Fernando Valley Chapter 153"
Ventura County Fair [California]
	"Best Design"
	"Best of Division" (2 times)
	"Best Original Design"
	"1st Place Feature Display" (2 times)

	Wells Drive Community Park (Tarzana, CA)
	Children's Community School in Van Nuys, CA
	Tree People [Collaborated on designing an Environmental Watershed Project]
	Reworked interior garden at the Gene Autry Museum
	California State University Channel Islands Art Center
	Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Garden Show Participant (1999 thru 2008)
	Garden Designer for five ISID San Fernando Valley Design Homes
	Conducted Six Landscape Tours for the National Association of Women in Construction
	Designed the Cactus Garden and two of the eight Sunset Demonstration Gardens at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanical Garden
	Collaborated with the Bureau of Land Management designing the walkway layout for the bird sactuary at Big Morongo Canyon Preserve, just north of Palm Springs, CA