Randy Beard has no interest in the word "can't."
   "I think it was my mother who told me, 'You can do anything you want to do,' "says Beard, co-owner of Pure Water Pools, LLC, in Costa Mesa, Calif.
   He considers it his specialty to make the sometimes-wild dreams of ultra-high-end clients come true. Of course having a natural knack for all things technical always helps. No wonder he clicked with the owner of the Newport Beach, Calif., home featured here. The man wanted a special fire-and-water feature that several builders said couldn't be done. As it turned out, the homeowner decided against it because of the $40,000 price tag. But Beard got the job, anyway, just because he had found a way to make it happen.
   "As soon as I first told him there's no problem doing it - that I know how we can do it and where it's been done before - everything was pretty much smooth sailing after that," Beard says. "I knew enough to not tell him 'no.' People with this kind of money know that anything can be done."
   This particular client knew even more than most because he makes a minor hobby out of building and reselling homes. So even though he nixed his original idea, the job was still a major undertaking.
   "He wanted a major pool with an attitude. He wanted to do it bigger and better and crazier than anybody else," Beard says,
   Beard stayed on, working with the home architect, Phil Edmondson of Pacific Coast Architecture in Newport Beach, and general contractor superintendent Daniel Murray of G.M. Neal in Trabuco Canyon, Calif.