Feng Shui Design for Your Inground Pool—with Photos
—From swimming pool shape to water filtration, tips for harmony and positive energy Are you planning a swimming pool and want to incorporate feng shui design principles into its design?
7 Affordable, Stylish Gunite Pool Features to Consider
—Budget-friendly options for a more attractive concrete design Are you planning a gunite swimming pool and want beauty and functionality—without busting your project budget? The good news is that an affordable gunite pool can have style and personality too.
3 Family Factors that Should Drive Your Swimming Pool Plan
—Questions to determine purposes for your pool to ensure a result that achieves your goals
Modern pool design: 5 key ways to achieve contemporary style
—Top features & elements to include for a clean, sleek aesthetic A sleek, modern swimming pool design is on the aesthetic wish list of today’s homeowners.
7 Popular Swimming Pool Features for 2022—with Photos
—Decorative and functional options trending on new gunite pools & spas Most of the design trends you see today in contemporary swimming pools have developed over the last several years, steadily gaining momentum among pool contractors and their customers.
Rock Waterfall Pool Slides: Design Guide + Photos
How rock waterfall pool slides are built, your design options, and what to know before adding one to your pool. If you’re designing a lagoon-style or resort-style pool, a rock waterfall slide is one of the biggest “wow-factor” upgrades you can add. But it’s also one of the most misunderstood. Costs, construction methods, design tradeoffs, […]
Mid Century Modern Pools: 7 Retro-to-Contemporary Design Evolutions in Photos
—See today’s take on key elements of gunite-pool style and configurations The Mid-Century Modern swimming pool has come a long way. Inground designs from that era have changed over the decades and given way to more sophisticated contemporary looks.
12 Tropical Pool Ideas for a Resort-Style Backyard
A tropical pool should feel relaxing, immersive, and connected to the surrounding backyard, not overcrowded with random features that compete for attention.
Elevated Swimming Pools: 7 Stunning Designs Built High Off the Ground
—Masterful custom projects that take aquatic style to new heights One of the most challenging and visually dramatic types of swimming pools is an elevated pool. This concrete (gunite/shotcrete) creation is not only built completely out of the ground, it stands soaring high above it.
What is a rim flow spa on a custom swimming pool? (with design photos)
—Learn about and view examples of this exciting gunite pool feature Rim flow spas—also called mirror spas, full-perimeter spas, and 360-degree overflow spas—represent a dramatic style of elevated custom spa with specially configured exposed tile- or stone-covered walls that allow the water inside to sleekly run over the spa’s entire perimeter into the swimming pool below.