One of the most important services we offer to our clients is pool landscape design services. We do this because we know the importance of the position that a well-constructed swimming pool occupies on the landscape. A custom swimming pool represents a special environment connected to all surrounding environments, and it functions as a hub for all sorts of activities and recreation.
Regardless of whether or not guests every get in the water is irrelevant. Sink, swim, eat, drink, or mingle, everyone is invariably drawn to the pool in some form or fashion. It is therefore imperative to have a landscaper designer develop its form and manage its construction under the watchful eye of a landscape master plan.
Pool landscape design creates a focal point for the backyard. As essential as trees and gardens are to any property, backyard landscapes require more than vegetation to function as effective outdoor living environments. Houston residents who depend upon their backyards as locales for special events and home entertaining require a strong visual and functional focal point for the many activities they plan to host throughout the year.
Pool landscape design provides this focal point by uniting home architecture with surrounding landscape design. Most pool companies will recommend a geometry, size, and style of swimming pool that is based on a strong belief that a pool its really its own independent reality.
This may be true at 5-star luxury resorts half-way around the world, where a pool may represent the entirety of the world outside the hotel. However, it does not work in an individual's back yard. Certainly the pool is very possibly one of the most unique points on the landscape. However, this idea that the pool is so unique that it exists in some sort of magical separate space works against the aesthetic of the overall landscape design.
Because of its prominence, any swimming pool has a powerful subliminal impact on the mind and emotions. If it is too large in comparison to the home and surrounding landscape elements, it will visually clash and create this strange, disturbing feeling of discord and disharmony. You do not want your friends to feel this way when they come over.
By contrast, pool landscape design harmonizes the size, shape, and geometry of the pool with the architecture of the house and the surrounding landscape theme. The home itself is the most important and dominant element found on any landscape. On most lots, it occupies a central or near central position between the front and back yards. It gives representative form to the interests, pursuits, values, and personalities of its occupants; and it establishes the theme and tone of residential landscape design.
This being said, think back now on all the times that you have either visited a home or seen pictures in a magazine of a swimming pool whose size, shape, and geometry simply clashed with that of the home. Quite an aweful feeling, isn't it?
Fortunately for Houstonians, our experts in pool landscape design know how to design a pool that will work with, not against its environment. The specialist in pool landscape design creates a size and geometry for the pool that reflects the home architecture, and a style that blends with surrounding landscape elements. This is not to say that the size of the pool is directly depending on the square footage of the house.
Some houses are three stories in height and feature rather compact dimensions on the front and the sides. Others are very spread out and feature their own unique geometric keynotes. The shape and style of the pool have to be carefully designed in the landscape master plan before any renovation or construction is initiated. 3D models have to be generated to ensure that the final product will compliment the form and proportions of the home.
The geometry chosen for the actual shape of the pool does not have to exactly correspond to that of the home, but it must provide a visible compliment without any feeling of discord when viewed. Custom patios and special copings are needed in almost all pool landscape design projects because these highly custom and specialized hardscapes are essential elements to necessary to aesthetically link the pool to the surrounding structures and organic forms of the landscape proper.
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