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Water Features



Why should you consider a water feature?

Water features are an affordable luxury that provides a signature and finishing touch to your pool and backyard landscape. They add elegance and excitement. They can be sophisticated and mysterious by adding light to the water feature.























Lighting is not only one of the most dramatic ways to change the mood of your pool, it also creates a safer environment for enjoying your pool at night. It will turn your poolscape into an amazing setting. It sets the tone and mood that you want.

You don't have to have a big property or even a large swimming pool to enjoy water effects. They can be added to existing pools and to spas. You can update your existing pool with a water feature.



Your pool builder designer will help you choose and will install the water feature as part of the construction process.



You now have the same choices that commercial builders have at an affordable price.

You will be seeing more elaborate water effects plus sculptural fountains, waterfalls and water walls. Also there are more vertical water features.

Water features should be considered during the design stage of the swimming pool. Your pool representative will probably ask you if you are thinking about adding this feature. It's more cost effective to plan and build water features at the same time as the pool. Keep in mind that most of the water features spill into the pool so it helps to have that design from the beginning of the process.

Waterfalls are probably the most exciting and dramatic of all the water features. Their appeal is due to the visual attraction of the flow of water and the sound that it creates.


The waterfall is created by water falling over an edge or surface known as a weir. Weirs can be made into many different shapes. There are two types of waterfalls; aerated waterfalls and smooth sheet waterfalls


Besides waterfalls, you can choose other accents for your pool such as a spouting lion's head or metal plated sconces. Then there are designer fountains, brass statuary and rock ponds.



There is no limit to what you can do to enhance your poolscape with the wide variety of features that are available.


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