Great Gatsby! If this isn't the bee's knees. Haven Pools swept this year's awards season with an Oyster Bay swimming pool overlooking Long Island Sound that would have impressed F. Scott Fitzgerald himself. The medals won were: Gold plus Best of Competition from the Northeast Spa and Pool Association (NESPA); Gold from the Long Island Pool and Spa Association (LIPSA), and Gold from the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals (APSP): International Awards of Excellence Program. Impressing the judges, for example, was how the salt water pool begins close to the home's back covered patio. Here an expansive sun shelf flanks a dramatic nine-foot spa. Then just a step down from the spa, bathers enter a lap pool that shares the same water. The lap pool, which extends 60-feet, allows swimmers to maximize their body strength. In addition, its vanishing edge - drawing the eye all the way out to Oyster Bay, Centre Island and Long Island Sound -in equal measure restores their spirits. Main Pool Cascading from the infinity edge, lap pool water falls over intricately laid stone walls into a stunning lower arched main pool. The drop to the surface of the lower pool's deep end is five [...]
