Great question! I think the key word there is "major manipulations" so we will have take all of the minor exterior home changes with a grain of salt with the thinking as detailed follows. Want to pitch some mosaic tile or art work on an exterior portion of the home? Maybe add some hanging landscaping? Add Lights? Drill in some bar stool swings? Of course. Think of it as if you walked into the backyard for a sales appointment to a house that was already completed. Lighting, drop down screens, tvs and such can all be manipulated once the home is completed. Just no major demo to any item and replacement.

New update has individual slide pieces.. You may be too far along but maybe they can help you out some!

I completely understand! Sure hoping you can find some time to get a project in. Let us know if we cam help out in any way!

Carol, I apologize and I have reached out to structure studio to see if there is way we can get a dropbox folder of slides that would turn left. It does appear that the rb32-25 model does turn left so that could be used possibly or you could combine that slide with another one that looks pretty cohesive like the attached picture. Hope this helps for now! -Reid

Thank you! We can't wait to see what you can come up with.

I can try and save a version with no trees on it and see if that helps? Unfortunately I'm not certain that there is any way we can reduce the size of the sketchup file. The only other thought would be to redraw the whole house in pool studio and try to get it as close as possible to the sketch up version. I know of a couple of entries that did that last year, but I know it can be time consuming. If you do go this route, please note that the home itself will not be taken into consideration by the judging panel at all, so as long as it is fairly close, you will be judged solely on the design work outside the home.

It's right around 54' if you look on both the pool studio and the .jpg we provided so I would imagine that will be fine + or - an inch or so. Hope that helps!

Nethan, Were you able to see the results from last years competition? The 2018 results can be seen at the bottom of this site. https://www.themilliondollarpoolchallenge.com/finalists-winner -Reid

@Placid Scene Pool Design Everything is live! Www.themilliondollarpoolchallenge.com/finalists-winner

Winners page with photos and videos of the top 5 will be up this week along with the ordered ranking of the top 16. Most of us just got home from Vegas. Press release and articles in Aqua Magazine and Pool and Spa News will be upcoming as well. Starting next year, we will have dedicated social media pages for the contest to try and streamline communication and boost pages for all of our entrants.

The plan as of right now is to keep the designs under wraps until after the class at the International Pool Spa Patip Expo where we will reveal the top 5 finalists as well as Mike and I’s solution. We will release a few images here and there and collages leading up to the class and then the finalists will have all of their designs featured in Pool and Spa News Magazine and on various internet outlets. We will use the top 16 designs in other social media blasts after the competition as well. We has an incredible turn out this year for our first year and it was very hard to come down to a final 5 I can assure you, but we feel very confident in the ones we picked. We are excited to show everyone what was turned in!

I believe it might have been mentioned in an email blast but winners will be notified no later than October 1st. If you are planning on already going to the expo, feel free to go ahead and purchase your ticket as you will be refunded if you happen to be one of the finalists. If you are a finalist and haven’t purchased a trip yet at time of announcement, Informa will work with you to book flights.

That is correct. Just make sure any file that is turned into us is in a universal extension such as .jpeg .mp4 .mov, etc. We will be checking those completed folders for the work this afternoon. Thanks and can't wait to see what everyone came up with! -Reid

The site was unique in that you can really utilize 3 different options with how you attack it. 1. Use the upper kitchen area & driveway as the pool area. 2. Use the lower porch area below as the pool area. 3. Use a design that incorporates both spaces together. There is no right or wrong answer, just more so if your design meets the criteria that the clients were wanting. As far as drainage goes, please do not focus a lot of your time on the absolute perfect drainage plan. It needs to make sense and work with the existing grades, but the pool concept and layout is going to be a bigger factor than drainage solutions.

Once you register, you will receive a dropbox link with a folder that contains everything you will need to get started within 24 hours. I do not handle any of that stuff since I am one of the judges so I don't really have control in getting it over to you sooner. If for some reason you don't receive it in 24 hours, please let me know. Thanks!

Thanks for the suggestion and I agree with you. Sometimes as a designer, you just have to go with the material you are supplied unfortunately. What was given out for this project was exactly what I was given for the project in real life, without the million dollar + budget. Next year, we will absolutely shoot for a site that is geographically in a new area of the USA and one that we have the full house plans in both CAD and pdf form, full sketchup with topo and then a pool studio base that is perfect. It’s supringly tough to find a client that will sign off on giving us over their existing house plans for the world to work on that meets all of those criteria though. Maybe someday we will even find a real client that will build the winning design. We are hoping this will be the beginning of something big.

No problem. Check out the FAQ section of the website for the long answer to that question as it’s come up a lot. It’s not an easy answer because on hgtv, all of our solutions would be $125k and done in 6 weeks, in real life they will probably be 2.5 million and done in 2 years....

Unfortunately there are a few minor instnances that the .pdf drawings differ from the sketch up and pool studio. You found one and another is the added office in the walkout basement. My best answer is to use the drawings that will best suit your design. Because of the sheer time amassed already putting this competition together, we had to find a client that had all of the files we needed available and that would sign off on us using them and there were a few tweaks they made that didn’t make all of the drawings. In the future competitions, we will push to make sure the drawings all sync up perfect to make it as easy as possible for our competitors.

The general architectural theme of the home needs to be protected as hill country contemporary but if you have skins or materials loaded that will present better, feel free to change the materials on the home.

The 360 tours were what I was referring to with the panoramas comment. They are great and I have not seen pool studio done like that before so well done. Regarding the timeline, unfortunately there were several legalities we had to get through this first year before we could mass distribute the program. We hope to give a timeline of 90 days or so in the future contests now that all of that is behind us.