{"id":15,"date":"2026-09-09T07:31:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/a-terrace-that-steps-down-to-the-pool\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:31:31","slug":"a-terrace-that-steps-down-to-the-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/a-terrace-that-steps-down-to-the-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"A terrace that steps down to the pool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bottom of this garden took water every spring, which is exactly where the owners wanted to swim. So the house sits on a stone terrace a metre above the old lawn, and five wide steps run the full width of it down to the pool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The steps are deep enough to sit on, and the terrace has become the room the family uses most.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The steps are deep enough to sit on, and the paving falls gently away from the house towards planting beds that soak up the run-off. The pool stays clean, the ground floor stays dry, and the terrace has become the room the family uses most from May to September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bottom of this garden took water every spring. We raised the house on a stone terrace and let the pool become the lowest point of the plot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11,10],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","tag-exteriors","tag-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/dreamrs-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}