All across the world, even in North America, pools are continuing to grow as a popular trend.
The Swimming Pool and Allied Trades Association in Britain agrees and has provided a few tips and inspiration ideas from a few of their members.
A perfectly placed and designed swimming pool can fit a garden space to provide a feature, which enhances its surroundings. The overall layout and combination of outdoor living space provides a tranquil, idyllic poolside space, perfect for entertaining and enjoying family time.
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Extending a living space into a garden can be great for relaxing and entertaining. This pool provides an unobtrusive and sympathetic design, complementing the surrounding landscape – no bright colors and minimal paving.
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Swimming pools require an amount of equipment that needs to be housed somewhere. This example shows a well-placed pool in a split level garden, with the plant room equipment beautifully hidden in the garden house, which adds to the setting, as a feature.
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Adding a swimming pool to a home will provide a major feature, designed to a lifestyle, with countless health benefits. This pool shell and pool hall is designed and constructed to enhance the building and the pool through; layout, feature lighting and the combination of lots of natural light. This pool is a great feature when the evenings and days are dark, with the flexibility to open back the pool hall doors and enjoy the light and air of the outdoors in the summer months.
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For those who love the alfresco lifestyle, mixing and matching a range of wet leisure products can provide the ultimate outdoor environment for any season. This combination offers the homeowner a space to capitalize on the marvelous view, whether exercising, relaxing or entertaining friends and family.
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The classic crisp styling of this pool fits perfectly with the clean garden design, creating a modern, uncomplicated feel, which compliments the house and its surroundings.
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It is important to ensure the build of the pool integrates all of the specialist elements together, as solving technical problems after completion could be difficult, disruptive and expensive. The build must be right from the outset.
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The design of this swimming pool is unobtrusive and sympathetic to the surrounding landscape, delivering a pool that blends seamlessly into its environment. Ensure a chosen swimming pool position benefits from maximum exposure to sunlight. Avoid trees and other foliage, which could overshadow the pool, or shed leaves and other debris into it.
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Maximizing space is key. This example shows a pool shell and pool hall designed to incorporate the crisp minimalistic features of the house. The seamless integration of the pool and pool hall is further enhanced by the cohesion of a high-gloss stretched ceiling, enriching the space with reflection and light.
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This swimming pool is situated within the house and is designed and built with low-energy consumption and sustainability in mind. The pool itself has an air source heat pump environmental control system, variable speed filtration pump, LED lighting, high insulated pool cover, cartridge filters and pre-filter to reduce water consumption and power usage monitors installed. A salt chlorinator has also been fitted to reduce chemical usage. Combined to provide a swimming pool, which demonstrates green credentials and looks stunning both by day and also in the hours of darkness, thanks to the dramatic lighting in the pool and pool hall.
