Hello all,
I am new here but I found this forum helpful and I thought I would post our build. Our build is not complete yet but is fairly far along. I will do several post from the beginning til now, which should happen fairly quickly and then slow down with the build. I also plan on doing some post on the landscaping and amenities that we are adding like an outdoor kitchen and Cabana (IF the powers that be are OK that I can post about the amenities)
A little background - We started to plan for a pool a little over a year ago, the idea really came from my older sister which I think is ingenuous on her part because she has convinced us to get a pool, my other sister to get a boat and I think my little brother maybe stuck getting a mountain cabin. Smart girl there.
Anyway we decided to get a pool, and I knew absolutely nothing about pools beforehand. We looked at all three types of pools and weighed the pros and cons of each. I really liked the Gunite pools due to some of the customizations. The two items that swayed us against the Gunite pool were the maintenance and the cost, out initial estimate was north of 250k and that was substantially more than we wanted to spend. Fiberglass was a real option and only because of the size and location did we nix it. So in the end we went with a Vinyl liner pool.
We then went looking for both a builder and a landscape designer, because of the times that we live in neither was easy to find, but after some search we did find a couple that we liked. The first picture here is to the conceptual drawing from our designer. It is pretty close the what we are going to do in the end. The two biggest changes are that we dumped the spillover hot tub and we have moved the stand alone Hot tub to a different location.
Well that is a start I will continue with the next installment shortly.
Kevin
PS I would be happy to give you the names of the designer and pool builders if you want them.
I am new here but I found this forum helpful and I thought I would post our build. Our build is not complete yet but is fairly far along. I will do several post from the beginning til now, which should happen fairly quickly and then slow down with the build. I also plan on doing some post on the landscaping and amenities that we are adding like an outdoor kitchen and Cabana (IF the powers that be are OK that I can post about the amenities)
A little background - We started to plan for a pool a little over a year ago, the idea really came from my older sister which I think is ingenuous on her part because she has convinced us to get a pool, my other sister to get a boat and I think my little brother maybe stuck getting a mountain cabin. Smart girl there.
Anyway we decided to get a pool, and I knew absolutely nothing about pools beforehand. We looked at all three types of pools and weighed the pros and cons of each. I really liked the Gunite pools due to some of the customizations. The two items that swayed us against the Gunite pool were the maintenance and the cost, out initial estimate was north of 250k and that was substantially more than we wanted to spend. Fiberglass was a real option and only because of the size and location did we nix it. So in the end we went with a Vinyl liner pool.
We then went looking for both a builder and a landscape designer, because of the times that we live in neither was easy to find, but after some search we did find a couple that we liked. The first picture here is to the conceptual drawing from our designer. It is pretty close the what we are going to do in the end. The two biggest changes are that we dumped the spillover hot tub and we have moved the stand alone Hot tub to a different location.
Well that is a start I will continue with the next installment shortly.
Kevin
PS I would be happy to give you the names of the designer and pool builders if you want them.
