SWIMMING POOL IDEAS FOR BACKYARD

From Casual Home Furnishings

At a loss for ideas when designing a swimming pool for your backyard?  This post is definitely the key to breaking through!  From the simple to the Elegant and Sophisticated, this post from Casual Home Furnishings has some great pictures and ideas to get the design process moving in the right direction.

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5 Incredible Swimming Pool Ideas for Your Bare Backyard

 
The blank canvas of an unlandscaped backyard can be intimidating for even a seasoned landscape designer.  Adding a poolscape, especially one with other landscape features can be even more daunting.  This gallery from Texas Pools & Patios show some great examples of what can be achieved when skilled design meets a willing and informed client.

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Spruce Up Your Small Backyard With A Swimming Pool – 19 Design Ideas

from Homedit

Swimming pools can add fun, recreation, and decades of memories to any family.  People that don't have huge backyards, however, often are convinced that they have to miss out on the fun.  This post from Homedit illustrates that this is definetly not the case.  The post presents 19 examples of how a swimming pool can change the complexion of any yard, regardless of the size.

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50 Ultimate Backyard Swimming Pool Ideas

From Ultimate Home Ideas

Looking for some design inspiration for your backyard?  Look no further than this post from Ultimate Home Ideas, which contains 50 examples of swimming pool designs.  Large, Small, Freeform, Rectilinear;  if you can't find inspiration in this gallery, then you probably should think about a slip n' slide instead of a swimming pool design!

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19 SWIMMING POOL IDEAS FOR A SMALL BACKYARD

From Homesthetics

They say good things come in small packages, and this has never been more evident than in this post from Homesthetics.  Small backyards can be the home of amazing waterscapes and landscape designs, as long as they are handled by a seasoned, professional designer.  There are advantages to smaller bodies of water, as this post clearly illustrates.

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100 Spectacular Backyard Swimming Pool Designs

From Home Stratosphere

Whether one is looking for a simple, understated, rectangular pool, or whether one's tastes gravitate towards a mini water-park complete with slides, waterfalls and caves, this post is definitely a great starting point for the design.  In this gallery of completed custom swimming pools from around the world, all of these projects, both large and small, will provide the requisite design inspiration to bring the perfect recreational features to one's own backyard.

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23 Small Pool Ideas to Turn the Backyard into a Relaxing Retreat

From Decoist

Having a smaller yard doesn't preclude a homeowner from enjoying a backyard paradise.  Skilled designers can turn any space into a functional, relaxing, and memorable outdoor living space.  This post from Decoist illustrates this point perfectly, while showcasing 23 such examples of maximization of smaller backyards for the ultimate small retreats.

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15 Amazing Backyard Pool Ideas

From Home Design Lover

Whether your tastes run to the traditional European lap pool, or whether you want something that looks like the pool at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, this post is definitely for you.  Some unusual and unique ideas for transforming one's backyard from simple to sublime appear in this post from Home Design Lover.  The first place to start when contemplating a pool is to look at finished pictures or swim in pools at resorts, and this post will accomplish the first step towards achieving one's backyard paradise.

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