Adding Swimming Pool Water Features – Minneapolis St. Paul, MN

The days of humdrum, ordinary pools are long gone. Today, your in-ground pool can incorporate many special features that make it uniquely yours. Some water features add dramatic accents to your aquatic recreation center. Others make your swimming pool more accessible or provide special areas for various activities. Others are just plain fun. The special features you choose for your residential pool, though, are all part of what gives your pool that special touch and makes it unlike any other pool.

• Fountains, Waterfalls, Water Spouts & Bubblers – Adding drama to your pool experience is easy. Moving water attracts the eye and adds delightful sound and sights to enhance the pool experience.
  • Bubbling Fountains – In the shallow areas of the pool, these provide a three-dimensional, ever changing visual display and pleasant sounds.
  • Waterfalls – Ranging from sheer sheets of water spilling into the pool to the simulation of a mountain stream tumbling over a rocky landscape, waterfalls are a popular feature. They add dramatic interest through visual and audible effects. You can even add a special seating area behind a waterfall to create a romantic hideaway.
  • Waterspouts – Arcing streams of water can be a great enhancement to your in-ground pool environment. It’s even possible to create an animated display you can control. These features can be turned on or off at will.
  • Fan Sprays – Fans of water spraying into a pool make the pool more lively and children, especially, love playing in these.
  • Splash Pads & Spraygrounds – These popular water features are a big hit with children. Incorporating sprays, waterspouts and fountains, they allow small children to enjoy water play, but with no standing water that poses safety risks. Even the youngest children can enjoy these with minimal supervision.
• Rock & Boulder Features – A beautiful grotto of boulders or other stone masonry is a popular feature in many pools, and can add additional drama to your aquatic landscape. Including flowing water and waterfalls in these features makes them even more attractive. Ask your Atlantis Pool consultant to suggest ways these features can be included in your design.
• Water Slides – Few pool features are as popular as water slides. From simple slides to slides that can turn your pool into a waterpark, our Minnesota pool construction company can show you dozens of designs, including some that can include rock and boulder features.
• Raised Spas & Spillovers – Adding a raised spa to your pool adds to the activities available for aquatic recreation. Jet pumps, air injection, and more are popular features. An overflowing spillway that sends a sheet of water into the pool is a great addition to any raised spa, combining a waterfall with the spa environment. Atlantis Pool & Spa specializes in these spas for concrete pools.
• Special Seating – Built-in lounging seats, poolside bar areas, and even tables with their own seating in the pool are a great way to add variety to the way people use the pool. Such features are easy to incorporate into your concrete swimming pool, and Atlantis Pool & Spa can show you many options.
• Sunshelves and Baja Steps – Flat shelved areas in the pool, are popular for sunbathing and allow play areas for small children in very shallow water. These can be designed with any shape, and also allow easy pool entry. Let Atlantis Pool & Spa help you customize your pool environment.
• Beach Entries – Rather than the usual stepped entry into a pool, a beach or zero-entry pool is a sloped entry, providing a natural incline, unbroken, from the pool’s edge to deeper water. Specially designed pool plaster materials can even simulate a sandy beach. Easy access, plus a shallow area for children’s play is a real plus with a beach entry pool. Ask your Atlantis Pool & Spa consultant about alternative pool entry designs.
• Infinity Edge Pool Features – If you have a dramatic view from your pool area, especially if that view includes a lake or steep incline, a pool with one edge that seems to disappear can provide a dramatic effect that provides the illusion of the pool having no edge at all. Water flows constantly over this edge, into a catch basin, then is returned to the pool. Consider this design element, if your pool can take advantage of it. Atlantis Pool & Spa can build-in this specialized pool feature for you.
• Accessibility Features – If accessibility for people with physical challenges is important, a wide variety of features are available to solve those problems. Pools in senior living centers and therapy pools often include special lifts and ramps. Beach entry pools also provide good accessibility. If you need these features, an Atlantis pool consultant can help you with design and installation. Our Minnesota swimming pool company knows the ADA requirements for handicapped access, and can help select equipment and designs.

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Atlantis Pool & Spa knows that you want your residential or commercial swimming pool to stand out from the rest. Our creativity and long experience building concrete swimming pools means that we can help you create an aquatic recreation environment that you’ll be proud to share with guests, clients, and friends. From the simplest designs to the most exotic, an Atlantis Pool & Spa pool will guarantee “Oohs” and “Ahhs” from everyone who uses your pool. Contact one of our creative, professional pool consultants today to get started on the pool of your dreams.