Naturally-looking swimming pool colour

When the sun is out it is a light soft blue and when it is overcast it is a broody deep rock colour which is just beautiful. They had natural stone already chosen in their mind so choosing the pool colour felt really easy for them.

The No. 1 family pool for this family

The pool area was designed for family life and the X-trainer was always the pool they liked. The shape has the 4 corners with access points (either the 2 bench seats at the deep end or the step and bench in the shallow ends). No matter how many people are in the pool there are spaces for everyone.

Great looking water features

Sunpod is great for kids to play or just for anyone to sit, lay down and soak in the sun or just look at it. The water wall water feature has the same natural design with stones.

Building the infinity pool

Though the pool design and free standing Maxi rib with negative edge was the work of Compass Pools Melbourne – these clients artistic flare and finishing off, the pavers and rock was what made this area so spectacular. They managed, with the colour and paving to have it sit gently in its landscape and not be contrasting.

The Quartz pool colour

The colour of the water is affected by the colours of the sky so some days it is brighter and lighter and some days darker. They have their living area and pool area flow through, so it is all on one level.

Lap pool

They never knew how many people could be swimming at one time – hence they needed a long pool for lap swimming – but it had to be versatile for ‘classic catches’ and ‘Marco Polo’ games as well. A lap pool for all ages – teenagers to adults. The family lap pool.

Colour

The colours of the house contributed to the colour scheme of the pool and the paving to keep the simple clean looks of natural tones of the pool. The Quartz colour pool and spa gives a soft blue so that it doesn’t sit too harshly against the view. The softer blue sits gently with the view.

Infinity edge pool

To maximise the use of the sloping site, we went for an infinity edge style swimming pool where one of the edges merges with the environment. We used a Maxi Rib X-Trainer swimming pool and also an X-Trainer spa (not visible on the images).

The ultimate country retreat

Paradise in the country. Living out of town, these pool owners wanted to have their view enhanced with the swimming pool gently blending in with the environment. They didn’t want blue water to contradict the landscape. The aim of this swimming pool was to enhance not contrast. 

Glass edge as an infinity pool alternative

The customer did not want a negative edge (infinity pool) due to the evaporation rate of the water running over the edge but did want the look of extended water view or disappearing edge. This was the reason the glass edge was added to the project.

X-Trainer pool shape or a lap pool?

Originally looking at a long lap pool they decided that they needed more lap swimming but in proportion to the large deck space. A skinny pool would look wrong in size. Hence, they made it two lanes instead of one! This is the 10.2m X-Trainer.

Complex site with easy access

This site was very easy due to wide access however the height difference did cause some complexity. The pool was engineered by the manufacture with the Maxi rib technology to allow the pool to be ‘free-standing’. This allowed the pool to sit at house level. The pool owners could have had 5 steps down to the pool area and installed the pool in ground however they wanted the pool up a living area of the house and existing deck. The property had an erosion zone overlay so there was a town planning process we had to go through with the client which did add an additional 8 weeks to the planning stage. The council were good to work with as they just needed the correct reports & engineering to show this overlay was considered in the build and they approved the town planning permit.