To celebrate Independence Day, we've rounded up eight American houses that would be perfect venues for a poolside Fourth of July party.
Edwin Residence in Los Angeles, California by Heusch
Beverly Hills architecture office Heusch renovated this mid-century house above Mulholland Drive in the Santa Monica Mountains.
The architects demolished an existing living room to build a curved infinity pool that has views of Los Angeles below.
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Atelier 216 in the Hamptons, New York, by Studio Zung
A stepped deck surrounds the swimming pool of this house in the Hamptons designed by New York-based architecture firm Studio Zung.
The architects designed the house, located on an exclusive part of Long Island, to look like a contemporary wood-clad barn.
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Valley of the Moon house in Sonoma Valley, California, by Butler Armsden
San Francisco architecture studio Butler Armsden built a saltwater lap pool for this cedar-clad house in Sonoma Valley.
Surrounded by redwood trees, the pool sits in the centre of a courtyard, a design choice Butler Armsden used to recall the Spanish haciendas built in the area during the 18th century.
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Slate House in Baltimore County, Maryland, by Ziger Snead Architects
Baltimore-based Ziger Snead Architects built Slate House to replace a ranch-style house lost in a fire. The house is clad in blackened wood, as a way to memorialize the lost building.
A swimming pool projects forward from the terrace over the hillside, framed by a retaining wall of weathering steel.
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Hill House Pool in Palm Springs, California, by Alex Proba
Designer Alex Proba hand-painted the pool of Hill House in Palm Springs, a residence that is available to rent on Airbnb.
Proba decorated the curving pool with her signature organic shapes in blocks of bright colours and contrasting patterns.
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O-asis in Phoenix, Arizona, by The Ranch Mine
Architecture studio The Ranch Mine built this house with solar panels and a vegetable garden in Arizona for a client that wanted to be more self-sufficient.
The swimming pool sits in the backyard, next to a concrete bench featuring upholstered seats and a fire pit.
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Viewfinder House in Truckee, California, by Faulkner Architects
A swimming pool with a connected jacuzzi pool abuts this house near Lake Tahoe designed by local practice Faulkner Architects.
A covered porch wrapped in a cedar rainscreen leads from the gym inside the concrete-walled house to the pool area.
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Los Altos Residence in Silicon Valley, California, by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
A swimming pool sits next to a meadow-style garden in the courtyard of this house in Los Altos, lined by a board-marked concrete wall at one end.
Pennsylvania-based practice Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designed the residence as a modernist interpretation of a ranch house, with polished concrete floors and walls lined with Douglas fir and Western red cedar.
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