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Pool Landscaping - A Couple Of Ideas That You Can Try
Author : Rita Horton
Submitted : 2011-11-10 Word Count : 870 Popularity: Not Rated
Tags: pool landscaping, pool ideas
Needless to say the easiest and best way of landscaping your pool is to plan it when you are planning your home and garden. However, things don't usually work out that way. All too frequently folks get a ready built house and pool, or they acquire a residence and add a pool on later.
Probably the most tough scenario to work with is when you get a residence with a pool and the pool has been built in completely the wrong place. Maybe next towards the garage, or way down in the bottom of the garden. This is not impossible to live with, but it may involve alterations inside the house itself.
Ideally the pool should be as near as achievable to your living/entertainment region. You'll be able to occasionally add windows and doors to provide you with views and access to your pool, or even add a summerhouse, a poolroom or patio off the pool deck.
Assuming your pool is built and it truly is much more or less exactly where you desire it, your landscaping will need to work around what you already have.
These are several things you'll need to consider
1. What view of your pool do you might have from your living or entertainment region? How can you boost that view? Ideally the water itself ought to be clearly observed and spread out in full view. If it is not, perhaps paving and/or a lawn top to it would give that wide open effect.
2. If your pool is out of sight, you may attempt and create a curving pathway via shrubbery or decorative masonry that leads the eye. There is certainly something enticing about a pathway top to an unknown destination.
3. Vistas. If you can't have a wide sweep of water inside your view, how about developing hints of open spaces which are noticed through narrow archways or other openings in shrubbery or walls. If you can get a glimpse of water, so a lot the better. A statue, a bird bath, a water feature, a portion of one's pool or even a portion with the sundeck would all work as a focal point in that vista.
4. Now, from your pool, what exactly is the view from there? Presumably you would like privacy from the neighbours or from passers by, so you would most most likely have walls, hedges or screens. Depending on your style, you might like a natural woodland kind of surround, or possibly far more modern day, stark geometric lines and angles. In this case, you'd concentrate on textures and the impact of specimen plants and planters.
5. The paved surround or wooden deck beside your pool is most likely the most important part of one's pool landscape. This really is mostly a question of private taste, but your climate and quantity of sunlight could also play a part too.
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