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Designing your home pool can give you almost unlimited control over every aspect of your pool. Before you can start selecting fun decorative elements like tiles and coping, you must decide on a pool design. To figure out what pool design will best fit your space, you should consult with your pool company about how you will use your pool and how you would like your pool to fit in with your landscaping.
Pool Designs for Usability
How you use your pool should help to shape its design. If you enjoy swimming laps in your pool, for instance, you might want a long rectangular shape. Many people use their pools as family gathering spots, so they might opt for a pool with a bigger deck to accommodate plenty of lawn chairs and maybe even a barbecue. If anyone in your family has mobility issues that might prevent them from using swimming pool ladders or stairs, you can add a zero-depth or beach entry, which has a very gentle slope.
Pool Designs for Beauty
People who do not have many pool usability requirements can focus on a design that works harmoniously with their landscaping and home architecture. If your home has classic or traditional architecture, or if your landscaping is formal, you might want to choose a pool with clean perpendicular lines. If your home has a more modern or rustic feel, though, you can design a pool with borders that swoop and curve through your landscaping. Floating on a raft on a warm summer day, you might feel as though you have your own natural lake.
Pool design involves balancing your aesthetic and usability needs. Your pool company or contractor can help you to pick a design that satisfies all of your wants and needs.
Source:
"Swimming Pool Accessibility Project," National Center on Accessibility