Pool Ideas
Refine by:
Budget
Sort by:Popular Today
32461 - 32480 of 448,092 photos
Pearman Landscape Inc
Example of a mid-sized backyard custom-shaped natural hot tub design in San Francisco
Artistry Outdoors (Custom Pools & Outdoor Living)
Example of a mid-sized transitional backyard tile and rectangular lap pool fountain design in Houston
Find the right local pro for your project
Ramahi Tile and Stone
Pool - large transitional backyard concrete paver and custom-shaped pool idea in Sacramento
Sponsored
Pataskala, OH
Pool Professionals Ohio
Industry Leading Swimming Pool Builders in Licking County, OH
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & Design
A Memorial area family commissioned us to create a natural swimming pool in their back yard. The family already had a standard pool on premises, but it was isolated in an area of the yard not particularly suited to seating guests or hosting get-togethers. What they wanted was a second, natural swimming pool built that would serve as the hub of a new home outdoor entertainment area consisting of a new stone patio, comfortable outdoor seating, and a fire pit. They wanted to create something unique that would preserve as much of the natural features of the landscape as possible, but that would also be completely safe and fully functional as a swimming pool.
We decided to design this new landscaping plan around a pre-existent waterfall that was already on the property. This feature was too attractive to ignore, and provided the ideal anchor point for a new gathering area. The fountain had been designed to mimic a natural waterfall, with stones laid on top of one another in such a way as to look like a mountain cliff where water spontaneously springs from the top and cascades down the rocks. At first glance, many would miss the opportunity that such a structure provides; assuming that a fountain designed like a cliff would have to be completely replaced to install a natural swimming pool. Our landscaping designers, however, came up with a landscape plan to transform one archetypal form into the other by simply adding to what was already there.
At the base of the rocks we dug a basin. This basin was oblong in shape and varied in degrees of depth ranging from a few inches on the end to five feet in the middle. We directed the flow of the water toward one end of the basin, so that it flowed into the depression and created a swimming pool at the base of the rocks. This was easy to accomplish because the fountain lay parallel to the top of a natural ravine located toward the back of the property, so water flow was maintained by gravity. This had the secondary effect of creating a new natural aesthetic. The addition of the basin transformed the fountain’s appearance to look more like a cliff you would see in a river, where the elevation suddenly drops, and water rushes over a series of rocks into a deeper pool below. Children and guests swimming in this new structure could actually imagine themselves in a Rocky Mountain River.
We then heated the swimming pool so it could be enjoyed in the winter as well as the summer, and we also lit the pool using two types of luminaries for complimentary effects. For vegetation, we used mercury vapor down lights to backlight surrounding trees and to bring out the green color of foliage in and around the top of the rocks. For the brown color of the rocks themselves, and to create a sparkling luminance rising up and out of the water, we installed incandescent, underwater up lights. The lights were GFIC protected to make the natural swimming pool shock proof and safe for human use.
Master Pools Of Wilmington
Mid-sized transitional backyard concrete and rectangular lap pool house photo in Raleigh
Sponsored
Pataskala, OH
Pool Professionals Ohio
Industry Leading Swimming Pool Builders in Licking County, OH
Austin Pool Designs
Our client wanted to be “wowed” and drawn from the home into the outdoor living space. As artists, they wanted a unique design that would transition from a more intimately situated pool close to the home out into their expansive property highlighting their view. From the sand colored aggregate on the beach entry to the hand-made glass tile on the pool, spa and catch basin, every detail was taken into consideration to complement the existing home and landscape.
This pool won a SILVER International and a BRONZE Region Design award
The materials used on this project include a Versailles pattern Travertine decking, Lunada Bay glass tile, Travertine coping, MicroFusion exposed aggregate interior finish, Sand in beach entry, Tahoe in pool, spa and catch basin/grotto, Zodiac Jandy pool equipment.
Charles Quinn Photography
Slate Construction Group
Hot tub - large modern backyard rectangular infinity hot tub idea in Miami with decking
Pool Ideas
Sponsored
Pataskala, OH
Pool Professionals Ohio
Industry Leading Swimming Pool Builders in Licking County, OH
Bay Avenue Plant Company
Cocktail pool with bay front plantings
Pool - coastal backyard stone and rectangular pool idea in New York
Pool - coastal backyard stone and rectangular pool idea in New York
1624