Gallery of Swimming Pool Images

Viewing unique swimming pool images will help you to design your pool. Swimming pools come in various shapes and materials, but all of them mean one thing -fun.

Swimming pools have become more attainable now than ever due to a greater variety of choices. Turning your backyard into a retreat is a great way to add value to your home and years of fun.

Feel free to print any of these photos and show them to your local pool builder to give him some ideas about the design direction you want your project to take. Here are a few examples of pool designs:

Freeform Designs

Geometric Designs

Traditional Designs

Spools

For those with very limited space, or no desire to swim, there is the "spool," a combination spa and small pool that's more for soaking and splashing. Spools are typically oversized spas or small pools with therapeutic jets.

Infinity Pools

Infinity pools are often very expensive and require extensive structural, mechanical (hydraulic engineering) and architectural detailing. Since they are almost always built in precarious locations (cliffs, mountain tops, beach front,etc.), sound structural engineering is paramount. The structural engineering must be based upon the geological conditions found on the site. A geotechnical report is commissioned prior to the commencement of the structural engineering. The high costs of these pools is often found in the foundation systems that anchor them to the hillsides.

In reality the edge of the pool terminates at a weir that is 1/16 - 1/4" lower than the required pool water level. A trough or catch basin is constructed below the weir. The water spills into the catch basin, from where it is then pumped back into the pool.

The construction technique has not yet been developed for a vinyl liner pool to include a vanishing edge, so the swimming pool must be constructed of concrete using concrete blown onto a steel frame. The technique is most commonly referred to as gunite.