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Building A Swimming Pool?

A swimming pool is the ultimate for your outdoor paradise. Building an in ground swimming pool is major construction rather it is a play pool, diving pool or lap pool. Our FREE Swimming Pool Design Guide will help guide you through the considerations and options for your new in ground swimming pool.  

There are many in ground swimming pool builders, some good, some bad and those that won't be in business next year.  

There are swimming pool design, landscape design and safety considerations.  How will you finance or pay for your swimming pool?

Art Objects For The Home would like to help you answer these questions.  We have some things for you to consider and think about.  If you are building a swimming pool for your Backyard Paradise the success of your  swimming pool design and good swimming pool construction will dictate the success of your backyard landscape.

You are about to make a large purchase.  We want you to have the tools to make the right decision for you and your family.

Swimming Pool Design Considerations

Are you in a new home?  If you are going to build a swimming pool.  Do it now!  Do it first, before any other landscaping goes in.  

Even in your front yard... hold on cowboy! ....If pool excavation equipment is going anywhere near where you have landscape, drip irrigation, landscape rock..... it will have to go through...over....  Whoa boy! .... Those excavation machines will ground your landscape rock in sooo deep you won't think you ever put any there!

Build your in ground swimming pool.  Get it done!………Then you can get on with your whole landscape design, your outdoor patio rooms and with your life! 

Building an in ground swimming pool is major construction.  It’s a mess.  You have a giant hole in your back yard with all kinds of trenches coming and going.  Your windows are so dirty you have to wipe off a peep hole to see out! ...You can’t keep your house clean with all the construction dust.  

Looking at this construction site begins to get on your nerves, much less workers in your backyard at the crack of dawn…. Your dog is finding all kinds of ways to escape…..  It's worth it in the end. 

Needless to say, you don’t want to do much or any landscaping before you build your swimming pool. And probably not during your swimming pool construction either.   

You absolutely don’t want to do any planting of any kind where the pool and deck are going to be or in the path of the equipment from the street, in your front yard and down the side of your house. 

Pay to put it in!  Pay to take it out!   

If you already have your yard landscaped be prepared for the removal.  The pool builder has to charge you to take out the grass, trees, shrubs and concrete, patios, walls etc.  The more you have the more they must charge for removal and dumping fees.

Swimming Pool Design  

In the scheme of things, where do you position your swimming pool in your backyard?  That’s really up to you.  Here are some things to think about: Pool Design Guide

These are some helpful books:

 
Swimming Pools & Spas

 
The New American Swimming Pool: Innovations in Design and Construction: 40 Case Studies

Do you want your swimming pool right outside your back patio, as close to the house as you can get it? 

If you have a small backyard, that may be your only alternative. 

Maybe you want the water feature centered to be the focal point from your front door.  This could be very handsome.  In the design of the swimming pool, however, the water feature does not have to be in the center of the pool.  The swimming pool doesn’t have to be placed in the center of the yard either. 

If you have small children and will have a  pool fence around your swimming pool, positioning the pool away from the patio is usually the safest, most practical and most esthetically pleasing.  

Your swimming pool may be beautiful, but it doesn’t look that way if you are sitting in your family room looking through a jail like fence at the edge of the patio. 

If your children are big enough to play outside without you, your life will be easier if they have access to their play area without having an adult escort them through the fenced in swimming pool area. 

A swimming pool in a large backyard has a bigger presence if it is set back in the yard.  Grass between the house and the pool can be connected with flagstone stepping stones, kool deck pads or a brick path.

Use Your In ground Swimming Pool Year Round!  

Have you ever had Thanksgiving dinner pool side?  If you live in a warm climate like Phoenix, Arizona, be sure to have enough deck to handle patio tables for your dinner crowd!  

The biggest regret many people have after they have built their pool is they didn’t purchase enough deck.  This is the area for pool lounging and outdoor furniture around the pool.   

Even with the additional cost it is better to add deck at the time of your initial swimming pool construction than going back a year later.  A perfect match when you add it may be difficult….. And who wants the disturbance of more construction?