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—Check out great options for your spa façade and water overflow into your pool
With its rather unappealing name and highly utilitarian purpose, you might be surprised that the dam wall on a spa can serve as a beautiful focal point of your new inground swimming pool.
Topics: Design / Features, Spas, Construction, Buyer Tips
—Understanding which popular shape best suits your overall pool design goals
—Part 2 in a 2-part series
In Part 1, we listed key factors to consider before zeroing in on your preferred pool shapes, including how elements of some can factor into construction costs.
Now, let’s take a look at some common pool shapes; one by one, we outline some of the advantages that certain ones have over others.
Topics: Backyard Additions, Design / Features, Construction, Buyer Tips
—Key design and function goals to consider when choosing a shape
—Part 1 in a 2-part series
Building a swimming pool is an exciting outdoor addition for which you will make many design choices. From the pool’s position in your backyard to the color of the interior finish, a number of aesthetic and function-related options await your review. Among the most important ones will be the shape.
Topics: Backyard Additions, Design / Features, Construction, Buyer Tips
Why pool dimensions affect price—but not always as you may expect
When it comes to the price of building a swimming pool, size matters.
Inground pool dimensions—square footage, perimeter, and depth—will affect the project’s total construction cost. However—and this is where it gets a bit confusing—sometimes size does not matter to the price all that much. Or, size does not matter as much as or in the ways you might expect it to.
Allow us to explain.
Topics: Design / Features, Construction, Buyer Tips
—Ways to borrow money for your backyard addition
Dreaming of a beautiful swimming pool, but the price of building one might overstretch your current home improvement budget? You will learn how to finance a pool with this simple guide to potential loan sources.
Topics: pool payments, Pool Financing, Buyer Tips, swimming pool loans
Enjoy functionality and style in a private pool designed for fitness
Form & Function: Unlike generic lap pools at public facilities, the design you have custom built for your backyard can have eye-catching features like this towering planter-cascade waterfall, as well as a private hydrotherapy spa.
Swimming laps is an excellent form of exercise that delivers a full-body workout. While you may currently make them part of your fitness routine at a community pool or public facility, you could be doing so more comfortably in your own residential lap pool!
Topics: Backyard Additions, Design / Features, Spas, Construction, Buyer Tips, Fitness/Exercises, Health & Safety, Health & Lifestyle
How concrete (gunite/shotcrete) pools are built with style to impress and durability to last
—Updated October 16, 2024
When researching information on backyard swimming pools, you will often see the term “gunite pool.”
What is gunite anyway? Is it different from concrete?
And what’s the deal with shotcrete—is that the same as gunite or something else?
Topics: Backyard Additions, Design / Features, Gunite pool construction, Construction, custom pool design, Buyer Tips
