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Luxury Swimming Pool Design and Construction
Barrington Pools doesn’t just build swimming pools, we’re building your dream outdoor living paradise. When it comes to creating a luxury swimming pool design, we understand that you are investing in the aesthetics of your home and that you are creating a retreat designed specifically for you, your family, and your friends. Custom pool design ideas come in endless shapes, but stylistically can be narrowed down to the five styles shown below. Visit our Gallery to see hundreds of pools in a wide variety of shapes and sizes.
The property and the lifestyle you wish to have around your pool will have a major influence on the style of pool. Your Barrington Pools design consultant will provide you information regarding the merits of different styles and advise on which best suits your vision. The possibilities are truly endless.
Classic Pool Design
Classic Pools feature clean lines, arches and 90 degree angles that evoke a Mediterranean look and feel along with straight lines used to create dramatic focal points. Classic swimming pool designs can be built with Grecian or Roman themes and may include decorative details including, columns, statues, mosaics, and custom tile work, to accentuate the motif.
Modern Pool Design
Beautiful geometric lines, contemporary features, and finishes, and dramatic outdoor living spaces are integrated into the overall architecture of our featured Modern/Contemporary pool and living space. Contemporary pool designs date as far back as the 1930s, and often incorporated large outdoor living, lounging, and cooking spaces.
Free Form Pool Design
Often incorporating natural stone, waterfalls, and surrounding landscaping, natural and free form pools use gentle curves and “free form” lines to create a pool design uniquely your own. This style is a great solution to increase the size of your pool around existing architecture and landscaping. This style of pool is also extremely well suited for building on smaller lots or where there may be obstacles that need to be designed to avoid.
Vanishing Edge / Infinity Pools
Vanishing edge pools are also referred to as negative edge pools, infinity edge pools or zero edge pools. Often a design feature within free form or modern style pools, vanishing edge swimming pools create a stunning visual effect by featuring at least one side over which water continually flows into a catch basin below. The vanishing edge draws your eye beyond the edge of your swimming pool, because the visual ‘stop’ is the horizon, instead of the edge of the pool itself.
Indoor Pools
As the premier pool builder in the Chicago area, we understand winter often lasts a little longer than we normally want—and shortens the time we’d prefer to enjoy an outdoor pool. That’s why our experience building indoor pools really cannot be matched. If swimming throughout the year is a priority, building an indoor pool must be a consideration. Further, an indoor pool design can be just as breathtaking as an outdoor pool and living space.
Lap Pools/Fitness Pools
Lap pools and fitness pools are designed specifically for athletics and for the sport of swimming. There’s nothing saying that you can’t just sit in the cool water on a hot day and relax though! These pools typically have one or more lanes specifically dedicated to swimming which might include markers and guides for swimming. This pool type can be standalone or part of another design like Freeform, Modern or Classic designs.