Swimming pool shape and size
Complementing Your Home's Style
Besides functionality, swimming pool design shapes should complement your home's style and décor. After all, it is a rather lucrative asset in terms of resale value and an investment you'll want to take seriously. Mostly every aspect of your swimming pool can be remodeled in time, but the one thing that will likely stay the same is the shape.
Please take a good long look at the architecture of your home. Study the front and mostly study the back of the home. Look at your neighborhood and community. All of these factors should be considered when designing your pool. Why? They will be taken into consideration at the time of your appraisal if you choose to sell your home. Now if you choose to do something totally different, do it because you like it. An example of this would be building an over the top tropical oasis in Pittsburgh, PA. Or a heavily stoned rock mountain lake in New Orleans, LA. These extremes may be fun but could hurt you at the time of resale.
For the rest of us, contrary to what most people think all shapes will work in most instances. I believe it is the accessories and details that sell the design; one may say the swimming pool’s jewelry. It is the tile, decking, coping, fountains, lighting, furniture and build-outs that will complete the overall theme you want.
Simply select the shape that will looks great on your lot’s unique contour.
Now, the shape may be defined by what function you want the swimming pool to have. If you are into fitness, it’s a rectangle or a well planned dogleg. If the kids definitely want a slide or to dive a lot it the pool has to be deep on one end, shrinking the space that they will have for volleyball, Marco polo and water basketball—I made this mistake my own self, I made our deep end too large and only use 30% of our 40,000 gallon pool.
So when you are deciding on the shape of your swimming pool – Get the whole family involved.
