Pool Landscape Design

Pool landscape design creates a focal point for the backyard.
As important as trees and garden design are to a property, backyard landscapes need more than just greenery to function as effective outdoor living environments. Houston residents who rely upon their backyards for home entertainment and special events need a focal point for activity that offers an equal amount of aesthetics as well as functionality.

A well-constructed swimming pool creates just such a hub for activities and recreation. It represents a special environment connected to all surrounding environments. Regardless of whether or not guests every get in the pool, they will invariably be drawn to the patio, lounge furnishings, and outdoor rooms constructed around its perimeter.

Pool landscape design unites home architecture with surrounding landscape.
Many pool contractors recommend a shape, size, and style of swimming pool that based on the belief that the pool can function as its own independent reality within the landscape. There is kernel of truth in this perspective. Certainly the pool is quite possibly one of the most unique things you will ever find in a back yard. However, the viewpoint that the pool is so unique that it exists separate and apart from its surroundings invariably proves limiting and unworkable from a global aesthetic perspective. Because of its prominence, the pool’s appearance has a powerful subliminal effect on the overall appearance of the surrounding property. If the pool is too large, or if its shape directly clashes with the architecture of the home, it causes a tangible sense of emotional discomfort simply because its appearance does not harmoniously blend with the vegetations, structures, and house that it ideally should be working to compliment.

Pool landscape design differs from pool design in that it deliberately bases the size, shape, and geometry of the pool on the architecture of the house and the surrounding landscape theme.
The home itself is the most preeminent structure on any landscape. It represents the personality and lifestyle of its occupants, and, like it or not, establishes the tone of the landscaping theme in general.

While this may seem a needless statement of the obvious, reflect if you will, for a moment, on all the pictures you have seen over the years that show a swimming pool whose size, shape, and geometry clash with the aesthetic of the home in a similar fashion. Invariably, when a new homeowner buys the property (if they buy it), they immediately notice the angst such a scene generates and look for an expert in pool landscape design who can do something about it.

Our pool landscape design team bases the size and geometry of the pool on both home architecture and surrounding landscape elements.
By this we do not mean that the size of the pool has to mathematically correspond to home square footage. What we do mean is that the shape and style of the pool have to be carefully designed in the landscape master plan so that the pool design compliments the form and proportions of the home.

The geometric shape of the pool does not have to exactly correspond to that of the house either, but it should in some manner or the other compliment it, at least in an indirect manner, without any sense of clash or discord. Custom patios and special copings will then be added at the end of almost every project because these structures are essential design and hardscape elements that function to aesthetically harmonize the pool with surrounding organic and structural forms.