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COVERING UP
Glazed building using the best technology from Marston and Langinger
■ www.marston-and-langinger.com
M
ost of us who long for a swimming pool have
a dream pool in mind – a definite idea of
how it will look, how we will use it, what it will
add to our lifestyle.
Often the dream stops there and when the pool
is eventually built the pool house is an unplanned
add-on, little more than a D-I-Y garden shed or
even an outdoor pool – available for use during a
few summer months.
Yet any pool can be an all round delight. What
you need is a pool house or the chance to put a
permanent cover over the outdoor pool. Both
options are more straight forward than you
might think.
A pool house
The amount of space you have to devote to your
pool house is almost more important than the
amount of money you have to spend. If you have
only a very limited area in which to locate the
building it is, of necessity, going to be small but
even then it needs planning carefully to maximise
its usefulness.
Before you start planning the actual building,
think about some of the ways in which you might
want to use your pool house because that will
probably affect the size, shape, design and style of
the pool house you build. Decide where the plant
(filtration system, pump, heater) will be located
and if they are going to be in the main body of the
pool house use storage cupboards or furniture to
hide them from general view.
Pool houses come in all kinds of shapes and
This ideal sauna for a pool area is part
sizes and the style of your home and your budget
of the Villeroy and Boch range
■ www.villeroy-boch.com
will, to some extent, dictate what you go for. At
the lower end of the scale you could buy a fairly
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