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Infinity Swimming Pool Designs

Infinity swimming pool designs can take in many different views and vantage points and in this picture above, which was taken at a tropical hotel resort, it take advantage of the coastal outlook from this resort. Its adorable the way the water graduates in depth as you step further into the pool, eventually gliding to a restful stop at the infinity edge enabling you the uninterrupted view out onto the amazing panoramic seascape.

If you live in an area where the temperatures can reach highs where all you can think about is cooling off, then chances are you may have contemplated installing or buying a swimming pool for your home. Swimming pools come with a great deal of pleasurable satisfaction and can also serve different purposes. It might be you desire a pool so you can swim lengths whenever you wish, or perhaps you have a young family and you want to keep your kids entertained and to engage in fun activities with your children. On the other hand, perhaps you just want to enjoy the ambiance and the additional value that a beautiful swimming pool can add to your property.

Any which way you look at it, a swimming pool, whilst also coming with the requisite routine water and pump maintenance obligations, can provide a long period of joy and fun. Now imagine if you could take that pool design one step further and make it an infinity pool. This is where one of more edges of the pool blend almost seamlessly into the horizon.

An infinity pool has to be the ultimate in swimming pool design and is often the icing on the top of the cake when it comes to modern architectural designs that include swimming pools. Any stunning view, whether it be a seascape, a beach, or even a mountain, or rural vista can be enjoyed even more when taken in from the edge of an infinity swimming pool. Enjoy this gallery of infinity pools below which are captured from all around the world.

An absolutely stunning infinity edge swimming pool with an amazing contrast between the ocean water color and that of the pool. This is an expansive pool that sit adjacent to the outdoor patio area with its magnificent island and sea view.

A stunning rounded edge infinity swimming pool with an inset relaxing sitting pool area, adjoining patio with a couple of sun loungers, at a luxury villa in Greece and with magnificent sea views. Source Buzzfeed.com and Eloundavillas.com

This infinity swimming pool shimmers on a bright summer day with its stunning country rural mountain and bush outlook

A modern upmarket home with huge glass windows, an adjoining patio area and a stunning infinity pool with an ocean outlook

This infinity swimming pool by the beach is situated at a modern luxury hotel and affords comfortable relaxation decks for sun bathers and view seekers

Luxury infinity swimming pool near a beach and trees set in containers either side of the infinity view

This large infinity swimming pool is situated at the Hotel Caruso at dusk. A stunning coastal view awaits those who decide to take the plunge up to the edge. Source Buzzfeed.com via Hotelcaruso.com

A tropical island beach vacation with a stunning infinity pool next to the beach and with four sun lounging chairs in between

Infinity swimming pool set into a rustic old wooden pier at a tropical hotel with sun loungers to the left

Stunning sun drenched T shaped infinity swimming lap pool in front of an island home

Infinity pool inset into a timber deck on a bright summer day revealing glistening water enticing you in for a cooling swim

An infinity swimming pool with an country and hillside outlook to the horizon

Beautiful sunny infinity swimming pool with tiled patio area and amazing color contrast between the water colors of the ocean view and the pool

Terrace of a luxurious house with stunning infinity swimming pool and ‘off the edge’ views overlooking the sea

Luxurious open air infinity edge swimming pool with a nearby tree providing an ‘optical illusion’ and an expansive sea outlook

Infinity swimming pool with crystal clear water and a beautiful view over the Aegean Sea in Turkey

This villa has a beautiful infinity swimming pool that shimmers in the overhead sun and offers a stunning outlook over the distant town and hillscape

Beautiful view of an infinity swimming pool with its handlebars and small bush containment

Sunbed loungers on a tiled patio area and beside an Infinity pool overlooking a much darker looking expansive ocean

Infinity pool with a coastal and island sea view with paved rock surround and ‘over the edge’ pool edging

Twin sets of sun lounging sofas with overhead umbrellas set in the center of a luxurious infinity swimming pool and overlooking the nearby environment.

Outdoor Dining Areas and Outdoor Alfresco Ideas

Outdoor Dining Areas -Suburban under cover backyard with outdoors dining table setting and swimming pool

Above we have a modern suburban home with an under cover backyard with stunning outdoor dining areas and an outdoors park bench style dining table setting, a nicely manicured lawn and a glass fenced swimming pool.

Having an area set aside at your home where you can dine and entertain outdoors via either a specific outdoor dining area or with one of the many interesting outdoor alfresco ideas, will create a additional area where you can maximize the use of your overall home space. There’s nothing more beautiful than enjoying a late summer evening meal with family or friends and enjoying the last of the summer sun. whether it overlooks a swimming pool, a lush garden or a small backyard, the satisfaction of being able to relax and enjoy a a drink or a meal in the outdoors of your home adds the overall sense and feeling of relaxation.

An outdoors area for entertaining, dining or just having a few cocktails isn’t necessarily something that takes a lot of thought, design or effort to create. You can create any number of interesting outdoor dining areas by simply laying either a few paving stones, a timber deck, and then just placing your table and chairs. In fact, as you’ll see in this gallery, there are even examples where people have just placed their table and chairs straight onto their back lawn, and often thats good enough.

When it comes to coming up with outdoor alfresco ideas for your home, this gallery will hopefully show you examples to help your prompt your own ideas and creativity. You don’t need to think complex designs and styles if you want to create a simple situation where you can sit outdoors and enjoy the sun and the fresh air. As mentioned above, all it often takes is a table and some chairs. On the other hand, if you really want to develop something with style and pizzazz, then check out these ideas below, and get thinking about the style or setting that you’d love to create at your own home.

A beautiful terrace lounge with outdoor dining table and chairs and a separate seating area situated under a slat roofed pergola providing a dappled sun effect with timber deck and distant views.

This image shows outdoor stylish living with modern chairs and a trestle table set in a garden patio.

This is a summer patio area on a timber deck with table and chairs, umbrella and large tree for shade, all set in a private walled garden.

A backyard patio area with white outdoors table and adirondack Cape Cod chairs overlooking a lush green lawn area and trees in the background.

This under cover patio area is equipped with table, chairs and outdoor gas heater on a walkout deck overlooking a distant scenic view

Backyard paved courtyard area with six setting chairs and table and carefully planted edging wall

Stunning outdoors setting with a cedar garden table and chairs with cushions set on a lush lawn beside a relaxed in-ground swimming pool with paved surroundings.

Outdoors dining setting with cedar table and chairs furniture, sitting on a rock pavement and beside by a swimming pool

Brown cane rattan chairs and table set on an outdoors paved patio in the morning with a background lawn and garden

An old rustic wooden table made from recycled logs and timber slabs in the garden

An example of how simplae and easy setting up an outdoors dining area can be with a simple cedar wooden table and chairs sitting on the lawn in a backyard garden

Outside dining table and wooden chairs beside a luxury designed paved swimming pool

Outdoor patio cedar wooden deck area at the rear of a home with white ‘picket style’ balustrading surround enhanced with a mature bush background

Outdoor simple white garden table and chairs on crafted paved patio in the backyard area of a home

Outdoor entertaining and dining area on a paved patio area with distinct indoor outdoor flow to a beautiful lawn area and fenced swimming pool in a modern stylish home

A modern backyard area with a glass fenced swimming pool and an undercover outdoor cedar dining table on a paved patio area

Modern backyard of a luxury home with an under cover entertaining dining area and pool

A well planned outdoor open air patio area with a gas BBQ, concrete kitchen counter with sink and a six setting dining table on a paved area with a lawn outlook

Outdoor private patio dining seating area in a well planted small courtyard

A wooden table and chairs in a tropical undercover patio setting with a bush background

Unique outdoor eco style log dining table and chairs set on a paved patio and with an interesting unique timber log railing fence.

Beautiful under cover outdoor dining and sitting area with sunlit lawn and a distant pool area and mountain view

Simple outdoor dining table and chairs with green cushions on a timber deck area

Beautiful modern indoor outdoor terraced lounge and dining with pergola and distant scenic view

Outdoor dining area with six piece dining setting on a covered patio

Outdoor dining table setting for an outdoor garden party with another example of how a great dining area can be established by simply placing a table and chairs on a lawn area, near the house and ideally with the outlook of a nearby garden area.

Ideas for Outdoor Kitchens

Under cover outdoor barbecue kitchen area overlooking swimming pool

This is an under cover outdoor barbecue kitchen area with unique ceiling fans, a large picnic style dining table all overlooking a lap swimming pool.

When it comes to being creative with your outdoor patio, or the entertaining area of your home, you should be on the lookout for some great ideas for outdoor kitchens both online and in magazines. Its amazing what you will find to provide the ideas and inspiration you need to create your very own masterpiece outdoors kitchen area.

The ambiance, goodwill, sociability and the good times that an outdoors kitchen can create for family and friends (especially over summer months) can be priceless. You can’t put a price on the memories you will create in one of these spaces in your home, and there really is nothing to compare with sharing a meal cooked in an outdoors kitchen and served to an enthusiastic bunch of friends or family.

We have selected some great outdoor kitchen design ideas for you to hopefully build on. Your own situation will of course be unique and you will more than likely have a lot of fun planning, designing and creating your own unique outdoor cooking place or outdoor kitchen, but whatever you do, and whatever you end up creating, make sure you do end up taking full advantage of what really can be a fantastic place in your home

Sophisticated outdoor kitchen and BBQ designs. Source www.digsdigs.com

Modern and cool outdoor kitchen design. Source www.digsdigs.com.

New outdoor stainless steel barbecue grill situated on a modern balcony

Outdoor cooking barbecue on an luxury terrace with ocean view

Stunning large outdoor kitchen with stainless steel BBQ and equipment. Source www.digsdigs.com

Cool outdoor kitchen design with stainless steel cabinets. Source www.digsdigs.com

Beautiful modern terrace lounge and bright red BBQ and outdoor kitchen

A luxury covered lounge and outdoor kitchen area

Outdoor covered patio area with barbecue, grill, couch, and skylight

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15 Fantastic Modern Conservatories and Sunroom Makeover Ideas

Modern Conservatories & Sunroom ideas. Balcony conservatory of a luxury home with relaxing chairs and a stunning beach outlook

A gallery of modern conservatories & sunroom makeover ideas, with this beginning image showing a beautiful modern conservatory of a luxury home with relaxing cane wicker style chairs and sofa and an amazing stunning beach outlook below.

The dictionary term for Conservatory oddly enough describes it as being either;

A school giving instruction in one or more of the fine or dramatic arts; specifically, a school of music, or
A greenhouse, usually attached to a dwelling, for growing and displaying plants.

And yet, when we tend to think of Conservatories in our homes, most of us don’t often think of them as being places where we host school teaching classes, or give music lessons. Nor do we generally think of them as greenhouses within our homes. Sure there may be some folk who do use their Conservatories as places to grow their indoor potted plants, but rarely do you see a home owner with large displays of plants within their conservatory.

The idea these days for our modern Conservatories and Sunrooms is that they are an attachment, or an extension to our homes that provide a sheltered sitting and relaxing area that also often has glass, or windows on all sides and even on the ceilings which makes them often resemble a glasshouse attached to a home. When these rooms are exposed to large amounts of sunlight, they often get very hot inside, and hence it can often be desirable to provide additional covering, in the form of awnings, blinds or shade covers to enable the incoming sunlight and consequent heat build up to be controlled or at least kept to an acceptable level.

Interior of modern home conservatory with tiled flooring, dining table and chairs, a small selection of potted plants and door leading from a brick house and one to the outside garden.

When looking for ideas for doing a sunroom makeover, or perhaps even adding a conservatory on to the end of your house, there are some important points to consider. For example as Anne Swithinbank, a celebrated member of the Gardeners’ Question Time team and author of The Conservatory Gardener, published in 1991 but still a standard work in its field today, suggests the following;

Lounge area in newly restored rebuilt house leading to a lovely tiled floor timber conservatory with seating and pot plants.

“You really do need to work out, in advance, whether your conservatory is a way of extending your living space, or extending your garden. You have to think carefully and honestly about how you want it to work. Are the people to slot around the plants, or the plants to slot around the people?”

This is an evening shot of a contemporary modern luxurious conservatory design with seating and plants

Whatever your answer is to that question of who or what is the purpose of your intended Conservatory, Anne adds some other additional interesting ideas to think about when either doing a makeover or thinking of a new build add-on.

Aluminum conservatory with tables, chairs & furniture and door leading to garden.

“Your answer will determine, first of all, what kind of flooring you are going to have. If your conservatory is primarily for plants, then carpets aren’t going to work; you’ll need a tiled floor, probably, perhaps with the odd drain.

Beautiful cantilevered stairway in an atrium conservatory with lots of plants.

“At the same time, too, you’ve got to think about levels of ventilation. What suits you may not suit the plants. On the other side of the coin, if you build in too many opening windows and vents, you could be making your house vulnerable to burglars, especially when you’re away.”

Ornate well decorated conservatory interior with tiled floor, sofa, chairs, tables and a garden outlook.

Therefore, building a modern Conservatory is more complicated than most advertising will lead you to believe, and the temperature really is the biggest issue of all. The last thing you need is a room that becomes and unbearable, unusable sauna in the summer, and an equally unbearable fridge freezer during the winter.

Dark wooden conservatory with table and chairs and a generous display of indoor potted plants

Conservatory extension to a family home with leather sofa and tiled floor

Timber framed conservatory set up with table, chairs and potted plants

Modern conservatory within a house setup as a dining area with table and chairs.

Modern sunroom conservatory extending into the garden with a featured brick wall.

Interior of a modern kitchen looking out onto a beautiful conservatory and garden

A sunny Conservatory room with transparent vaulted ceiling, wooden dining table and chairs, relaxed seating and a stainless steel barbecue for al-fresco dining

31 Visually Stunning Swimming Pool Lights at Night

Swimming Pool Lights at Night from this Modern style apartment building with beautiful long swimming pool

The beauty of swimming pool lights at night are highlighted by this stunning modern style apartment building that overlooks a crystal clear beautiful long lap swimming pool.

There is something magical about an illuminated swimming pool at night. With all of its lights turned on, or the spotlights from outdoor patio, or deck blazing down on a pool in all its glory, often provides an ambiance or feeling that you just can’t replicate during the day. When you get the lighting right, and in balance, it creates a sense of romance or absolute heaven.

Investing in a swimming pool can be a fantastic investment, not just in your home, but also in the feeling and the enjoyment your home can bring to you and your family. Pools obviously come in many different shapes, sizes and budgets, but whatever your level of investment, don’t make the mistake of failing to invest in the night time effect of good quality lighting for your swimming pool, however humble it may be.

There are another 30 images in this gallery of outdoor settings with swimming pool lights and illuminated pools at night. These are fantastic views that make you want to take that evening dip or alternatively create that romantic mood or ambiance for a special night. Take a look through them, and see if they create some ideas or inspire some creativity for your very own backyard. Swimming pool (with lights) – Who else wants one?

This image of a beautiful villa with lights and illuminated swimming pool at night provides an amazing striking contrast of color with the light blue of the water and the yellow orange of the villa.