How to Find Design Ideas for Swimming Pools

Here are a few ways to find inspiration for swimming pool designs.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Measuring Tapes
• Design Magazines
• Sketchbooks
• Cameras
• Cameras

1. Look in books and magazines about residential swimming pools or pool construction as well as architecture, interior design and travel. Also look for books and magazines on hotels and resorts throughout the world and on the work of individual landscape architects. Scan the photos for pools and pool details such as edges, steps and tile patterns.

2. Sketch, photograph and measure pools that you like. (See 'eHow to Record Landscape Ideas in the Field.")

3. Take a walk or drive through an upscale neighborhood (where the professional designers have been at work) and keep your eyes peeled for pools. Since they are often concealed from the street for privacy, you may only catch glimpses.

4. Watch videos and TV with a pad in hand so you can record inspirations as they flash past. Movies made in your area or in a setting that stirs your imagination are a good place to start, but don't neglect the cheesier movies and TV shows where a lot of the action occurs poolside - the setting can be much better than the screenplay.

5. Make a diagram of the activities that you'd like to enjoy in your pool - lap swimming, lounging, gathering a group of friends, playing water polo - and build a pool around these.

6. Let your imagination go! A swimming pool is for fun, so the more in tune you are with your own images and fantasies about what a pool can be, the more you'll enjoy the final product.

7. Hire a landscape architect to help you tame your wildest notions into a workable form.

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