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—Learn the benefits of portable spa models compared with custom concrete spas
Click here for part 1 of 2: Portable Hot Tubs
Part 2: Inground spas
A portable hot tub or an inground concrete spa—which one is right for you?
As discussed in part 1 of this article, both prefabricated hot tubs and their custom-built counterparts offer terrific benefits for your home and lifestyle.
Topics: Backyard Additions, Design / Features, Health/Lifestyle Benefits, Equipment/Technology, Spas, Construction, Buyer Tips, Maintenance
—Learn the benefits of portable manufactured models compared with custom concrete spas
Part 1: Portable Hot Tubs
Few activities are more relaxing than settling into a warm, bubbly spa at the end of a hard day. Along with the health benefits of unwinding mind and body in heated, swirling water, a spa can make an excellent spot for entertaining friends and family. Depending on the type you choose, a spa can boost the visual appeal of your backyard as well.
Topics: Backyard Additions, Design / Features, Health/Lifestyle Benefits, Equipment/Technology, Spas, Construction, Buyer Tips, Maintenance
—Get any design for any yard and style preference with a gunite/shotcrete pool
Choices, choices, choices! With concrete pools built using gunite or shotcrete material, options for your new pool’s design and overall configuration cross the full spectrum.
While you have two other options for a residential inground pool—fiberglass or vinyl liner—the concrete one rises above the pack. Whether composing a pool in a classic rectangle or Roman, an organic form with soft curves, or a modern silhouette with sharp angles—concrete delivers on all fronts.
Topics: Backyard Additions, Design / Features, Spas, Construction, Buyer Tips
—Before building begins, carefully evaluate these fundamental choices
When embarking on any big home improvement project, you face a number of design decisions over factors that bear greatly on the final result.
Particularly for complex additions—like a new backyard pool—it’s common for homeowners to change their mind over plan details. Worse, some realize too late that their design fails on some fronts to meet their family’s needs and preferences.
Topics: Backyard Additions, Design / Features, Spas, Construction, Buyer Tips
Visualize your entire new backyard resort—before it’s built
Imagine seeing your fully completed swimming pool, deck, and landscaping in your backyard—without turning over a single shovel of dirt.
You can. Powerful 3-D technology makes it easier than ever to envision your new outdoor space and to more effectively plan out this rewarding, but complex home improvement project.
Topics: Backyard Additions, Design / Features, Spas, Construction, Buyer Tips
—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
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
