It is perhaps the ultimate in outdoor privacy: a spa enclosed by a cave.
In what was a boringly flat, oddly shaped back yard, Bryce Baker has created an outdoor environment dramatic in its design and filled with visual surprises.Not the least among the novel touches is a boulder-flanked hill topped with delicate trees and small shrubs that from most vantage points cleverly hides the entrance to the cozy cave concealing the underground spa.
The hill provides a spectacular view from the interior of an open, airy, glass-filled $700,000 home in Heathrow built by The Bridgewater Companies of which Baker is president.
The four-bedroom home, says Baker, is ''an entertainment home,'' and the landscaping serves to reinforce this theme.
Baker designed the landscape to create two separate living areas -- the home and the pool/spa. The curious, inviting configuration of plantings, pathways, a stream and the hill evolved from Baker's efforts ''to use every square foot of space'' on an irregularly edged, pie-shaped lot that narrows from the back of the house down to frontage on a small lake.
