We bought a new house in May of last year and moved from a sport pool we loved - rectangular and four feet deep on the sides and five feet deep in the middle - to a giant kidneyish shaped 70’s diving pool with a very small shallow end and a huge drop off to a large 8 foot deep end.
We’re redoing the plaster, coping, tile and decking and my wife and I are looking to make the deep end a little more usable. Has anyone ever added a tanning ledge/sun shelf to the deep end of a pool? I always see them on the shallow end, which makes sense since it’s often where kids play.
We’re thinking of adding a shelf on the deep end curve that is 10” deep and goes out far enough to have two chaise lounges side by side. You know, the deep end is the curvy end of the kidney and we’d draw a straight chord across the curve, say, 6 feet out from the end. Of course, the catch here is that if you walk off the shelf you drop into 8 foot deep water instead of into the shallow end.
I can’t find any pictures online of something like this - has anyone done it? Any other ideas of how to reclaim the deep end? We have a five year old daughter who is a solid dog paddler and is working on learning strokes. She loves the shallow end and loves swimming to the deep end and back but we’re imagining this as a place where grown ups can hang out while kids are in the shallow end in a few years. I thought about swim up barstools as well but this idea is getting more traction with the wife.
Final point - the deep end is underneath a tree so it’s pretty shady. But since we’re in Dallas, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
We’re redoing the plaster, coping, tile and decking and my wife and I are looking to make the deep end a little more usable. Has anyone ever added a tanning ledge/sun shelf to the deep end of a pool? I always see them on the shallow end, which makes sense since it’s often where kids play.
We’re thinking of adding a shelf on the deep end curve that is 10” deep and goes out far enough to have two chaise lounges side by side. You know, the deep end is the curvy end of the kidney and we’d draw a straight chord across the curve, say, 6 feet out from the end. Of course, the catch here is that if you walk off the shelf you drop into 8 foot deep water instead of into the shallow end.
I can’t find any pictures online of something like this - has anyone done it? Any other ideas of how to reclaim the deep end? We have a five year old daughter who is a solid dog paddler and is working on learning strokes. She loves the shallow end and loves swimming to the deep end and back but we’re imagining this as a place where grown ups can hang out while kids are in the shallow end in a few years. I thought about swim up barstools as well but this idea is getting more traction with the wife.
Final point - the deep end is underneath a tree so it’s pretty shady. But since we’re in Dallas, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.