Architect Built A Luxury DIY Pool In His Backyard Using Only A Dumpster
Let's face it: escaping the summer heat isn't always as simple as it should be. Running the AC all day really puts a hurting on that electric bill, and not everyone is lucky enough to live near the cool waters of the ocean. Recently, though, one New Orleans resident created a solution for his own battle with the summer heat.
Using an old dumpster and an excavator, he started digging up his backyard. By the time he'd finished, he'd made his yard the coolest on the block—and his neighbors were calling him a genius! You're going to be in awe when you see how he beat the heat...
Stefan Beese was an experimental architect with lots of bright ideas. While he'd designed waterfronts in Germany and built "voodoo" sculptures for a New Orleans park, there was one personal project that took on that might've been his best work yet...
While at home one summer in New Orleans, Louisiana, the German-born builder and designer considered his backyard's lack of a swimming pool. With a shotgun-style house like the one here, there wasn't much room in the yard for such a luxury... or was there?
In his line of work, Stefan never shied away from a challenge, so he wasn't going to let that stop him. With a little bit of that architect's ingenuity, he devised a plan for the perfect swimming pool. The project started with an excavator...
For this pool in particular, Stefan and his crew leveled off a patch of ground 24 feet long and eight feet wide. Then he dumped a thick layer of limestone gravel down over the level surface. Next up? The centerpiece of the project...