For anyone out there looking for ideas on a small pool. Go to the blog "Our New Pool Build in Jacksonville, FL" We call it a Spool or Social Pool. It is approx 10 X 20 and it will be fully screened in. The wife designed it and it will have a water fall, bubbler and 2 external boxes for statues spouting water. It is 3.5ft to 4.5ft and have 2 seating / lounging areas. We went this route because we like entertaining and did not care to be swimming and diving, just hanging out. Take a look and let me know your thoughts. Thanks

We finally got started planting behind the raised bond beam! Talk about a lot of work! We had to build a retaining wall behind the curved portion of the wall with Castlerock, and those things are heavy! I haven't planted anything along the new sundeck, but hope to start that today. We also still have four Pygmy Date Palms for behind the raised bond beam, that we have to plant. Two will flank either side of the CI Date Palm for some added privacy. Here is a close up of the area we planted: I'm super pleased with the look of the ferns. We're lucky in that we only get about 1 hour of direct sun there a day, and it's from about 5:30PM - 6:30PM. Hopefully these Kimberly Queens will thrive there. I looked forever, before finding these bowls for the lower portions of the bond beam. There is a really good nursery, showcased in Southern Living, in a nearby town. They're my go-to place for hard-to-find Texas plants, and they have awesome decorative items. The bowls look amazingly like Oklahoma Wister flagstone! I've planted this combo before. It'll be white in the back (Angelonia), Liriopi in the middle as a perennial, and eventually the purple Scaevola and New Gold Lantana should spill over the front. With the Blue Plumbago in the back, the color combo should look nice. In about a month, it should be totally full. All I'll have to do is change out the annuals each season for color. The fence is in. Now all we have left is the flagstone inlay and the flagstone on the steps and we're done!

Endless pool is only for lap swimmers of course. Most people with backyard pools do not swim laps. We have a 16x32 pool which is pretty typical. Also typical was a recommendation that you want to be the depth distance from the house - so 5 feet deep pool should be 5 feet from the house. This is for stability of the foundation but I am sure that is dependent on soil, foundation type and can be overcome with enough money. Seems like a 38x30 would give you 32x26 area (guessing 2 sides on the 38 measurement). You would have 10 feet off the house for a patio and it could be 32 feet wide. That to me is doable and of course you could shrink the width down to 14 or 12. Watch impervious surface requirements - no sense planning on a pool if you can't really do it. Some jurisdictions around me consider a pool impervious but most do not. But you have coping, any patio, and equipment pad.

We use a design program from Structure Studios. Pool Studio is one of their programs which can generate plan view, 3D and a "fly through" renderings. You could call them and ask if their is someone in your area who has purchased their product. Perhaps a local designer can help you out. https://www.structurestudios.com/software/3d-swimming-pool-design-software?campaignmsclkidutm_sourceutm_mediumutm_campaignutm_termutm_content