Choosing the Best Swimming Pool Shape for Your Back Yard

Choosing the Best Swimming Pool Shape for Your Back Yard

Simple geometric shapes (squares, rectangles, circles, and ovals) are the best for complementing a landscaped setting and enhancing the appearance of your property. These are the types of pools generally found in suburban neighborhoods. On average a rectangular swimming pool is more expensive than a curve shaped swimming pool as some builders price based on the perimeter of the swimming pool.

It is difficult to incorporate unusual pool shapes, particularly on residential lots, as they tend to compete with and overwhelm the rest of the landscape. However, odd shapes, like a bend in one side of a pool, may also be used to integrate natural features of your property, like special trees or boulders.

It is also possible to create a naturalistic pool which blends into the surroundings, but even these should usually be simple in shape. A naturalistic pool can be designed to blend into its surroundings, leaving little demarcation between the pool and its environment, but this requires hiring a top landscaper with a proven reputation for such work. Such a pool is more costly to design and build, very difficult to integrate into a residential lot, and may require more regular maintenance due to any plants which are used close to the pool.

Install a Sufficient Patio around the Swimming Pool

When drawing up plans make sure to include extra space around the pool for a deck or paved area surrounding all sides of the pool. The poolside area provides easy access to the pool (which is particularly important from a water safety perspective), minimizes the amount of dirt entering the water and catches overspills which would otherwise cause the garden to becoming water logged.

As a rule of thumb, the total poolside area should be about equal to the pool, and should be at least5-8 feet wide. For any pool construction, make sure to spend a lot of time in the planning phase of your project as errors and changes will be costly to resolve.

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