Johnston Residence
Woodland Hills Pool & Pergola
A Woodland Hills backyard rebuilt end to end — pool and raised spa, pergola terrace, and a putting green tucked against the slope.
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The Johnston film — the finished yard, with the owners on what it took to get there.
Four ways to use a yard that used to be one.
The Johnston rear yard runs narrow and long, with an ivy-covered slope pressing in at the back. Instead of spending the whole footprint on a pool, we split it: a pool with a raised spa spilling into it sits against the house, and the ground the slope was eating gets held back by a block retaining wall to make room for everything else.
That recovered ground carries a redwood pergola on a raised paver terrace, reached by broad steps off the pool deck, and a putting green in artificial turf beside it. Large-format pavers tie the whole yard together, boulders and planting soften the wall line, and string lighting runs the length of it — so the yard reads as one space with four things to do in it.
- Pool with a raised spa and spillway into the main body.
- Large-format paver deck wrapping the pool and patio.
- Block retaining wall holding the rear slope back.
- Redwood pergola on a raised paver terrace with wide steps.
- Artificial-turf putting green with cup flags.
- Boulder and planting detail, plus overhead string lighting.
Every angle of the build.
Other builds from the same team.
Costantini – Woodland Hills
A sloping Woodland Hills rear yard, filmed the way every Vitoli project starts — before a single yard of concrete is poured.
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Hodgsen – San Pedro
A canyon-edge lot in San Pedro turned into a series of planted terraces you can actually walk through, top to bottom.
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Madnick – Woodland Hills
A long, lean pool down one side of a Woodland Hills yard, with a fire lounge at the far end and the hillside held back behind a new wall.
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