If you’re trying to decide whether to have a pool or not, there are a few things you’ll need to think about.  Pools are now a lot more eco-friendly than they used to be, and the human environment can always use improvements. There’s no real requirement to be an expert on pool cleaners, filters or other pool equipment, either. That’s an urban myth, and it’s one of the dumber ones. Pools are quite easy to maintain.

1. The aesthetic reasons

There’s nothing quite like a landscaped pool, particularly with a garden. These pools blend in to the landscape, adding their reflected light. If you’re a keen gardener, the opportunities are endless for creating beautiful canopy and water effects, very much like a water garden, except you can swim in it. The landscaping also helps reduce the wind chill effect and shelters the pool from prevailing winds.

Add some nice stone tiles, a rockery or several, flowering herbs and other good company in the garden, and you’ll make yourself a personal paradise. The likely result is that you’ll become amphibious, refusing to leave the pool except on special occasions, but that’s not all bad, either.

(Note to ensure problem-free landscaping: All standard landscaping precautions apply with pools. Don’t use trees with “roaming roots” around pools, particularly unenclosed runner bamboo. They can damage the pool structure, and leaks can be rather grim when they involve putting thousands of litres of water under your foundations. Also make sure they’re not too close to plumbing connections and pool pumps, because the roots can dislocate them.)

2. The health reasons

Pools are very good for your health. They’re a great way to indulge in valuable passive exercise, improve muscle tone, help breathing and circulation, and you can do all this while not really trying to do anything much. Even just floating around on an air mattress is good for you, because the floating relaxation can disentangle anyone’s posture, particularly if you’ve been scrunched up in an office all week trying to fit yourself and your work into a workstation.

The health factor is particularly important for people who live relatively sedentary lives. The pool is all exercise, but it’s non-invasive exercise, and it’s well suited to any fitness level. It’s very good for older people who are losing muscle tone and don’t want to battle strenuous exercise directly.

Water provides a good relationship with gravity for tired people, too. It takes pressure off muscles, joints and tired minds, and allows you to refresh in peace. If doctors could prescribe swimming pools for stress, physical and mental, they’d do it.

3. The value reasons

Everybody knows pools add dollar value to homes. They also add other values. The beautiful garden with pool is a real home setting, and it’s good for the soul, as well as the wallet. The pool is a particular sort of personal space, like a well designed study with all your favorite things. It’s a setting for a great life, where you can literally wallow in luxury and get your own priorities operating on your own terms. Everybody has a preferred environment, and the pool can help create exactly what you want, the way you want it.

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