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Three of them were spent at a three-story "pool cabana" at the W South Beach that had a private roof deck.
The five-story pool and sauna parlor is usually not full of members of the nearby Korean community, but is regularly thronged by bathroom-owning families from all five boroughs, looking to soak, bake, and splash around in this hybrid of a hammam and a water park.
The total cost of the renovation has been about $500,000 $150,0000 went to bringing the old foundation up to code), but the house is still a work in progress: Minarc has drawn up plans for a three-story pool house and studio in the garden out back.
"But when I walked out onto that deck, I thought, 'Damn, this is a million-dollar view and I need a pool that can keep up.' " The Morans ended up spending what they said was a significant chunk of their overall renovation budget — which was a million dollars, as it happens — on a two-story pool connected by a slide and a recirculating waterfall with sweeping staircases on either side.
He is giving up his Ft. Lauderdale home so he can move into his newly-built home in Boca Raton, but his current digs aren't too shabby: The Ft. Lauderdale house has five bedrooms, nine baths, a 1,000-gallon 1,000-gallonckaquariuma 65-foot yacht, a two-story pool pavilion, an elevator andockagek-in 600-bottle wine cellar.
A swimming pool with a spa sits beside a two-story pool house with a sleeping loft.
This story from pool reports was made available later.
I've always loved stories about gamblers: Walter Tevis's "The Hustler," and the film adapted from it, and Don Carpenter's several novels and stories with pool and poker games, and the Dostoyevsky book, and some others.
Based on the true story of Pools winner Viv Nicholson, this rags-to-riches – and back again – tale is Cinderella with a twist, a morality tale for our own spend-today-and-pay-tomorrow age.
As production carpenter for the Broadway play "Aida," he is in charge of the things that disappear and appear on stage, illusions like a two-story swimming pool, flying water nymphs and a river that shakes out from the sky.
