How Do You Find Design Ideas For Swimming Pools?
Here are a few ways to find inspiration for swimming pool designs. Look in books and magazines about residential swimming pools or pool construction as well as architecture, interior design and travel. Also look for books and magazines on hotels and resorts throughout the world and on the work of individual landscape architects. Scan the photos for pools and pool details such as edges, steps and tile patterns. Sketch, photograph and measure pools that you like. (See ‘eHow to Record Landscape Ideas in the Field.”) Take a walk or drive through an upscale neighborhood (where the professional designers have been at work) and keep your eyes peeled for pools. Since they are often concealed from the street for privacy, you may only catch glimpses. Watch videos and TV with a pad in hand so you can record inspirations as they flash past. Movies made in your area or in a setting that stirs your imagination are a good place to start, but don’t neglect the cheesier movies and TV shows where a lot
