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Desert & Southwest Pool Ideas
Desert and Southwest pools take their cues from Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas: earthy stucco and rammed earth, flat roofs and deep overhangs, gravel gardens planted with agave, yucca, cactus and desert trees, and shade structures that make the outdoors usable at noon.
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Desert & Southwest Pool Ideas, explained.
Desert and Southwest pools take their cues from Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas: earthy stucco and rammed earth, flat roofs and deep overhangs, gravel gardens planted with agave, yucca, cactus and desert trees, and shade structures that make the outdoors usable at noon.
Notice how the best pool designs use colour sparingly — a corten wall, a turquoise door, the blue of a pool — against the neutral ground. Save the schemes that match your sun and your soil.
Desert pools are blue oases in gravel and stucco. Look for a rectangular pool with a raised spa, travertine or exposed-aggregate decks that stay cool, corten or stucco walls for wind and privacy, a ramada or shade sail over the loungers, and planting of agave, saguaro and palo verde. Fire bowls on the coping make the most of clear desert nights.
What to look for as you browse
- The coping — how the deck meets the water sets the whole tone
- Where the spa sits and how it spills into the pool
- Night lighting: which features glow and which stay dark
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