Sag Harbor

Pool design trends are leaning toward shallower pools - with a shallow end of 3 1/2 feet and a deep end of 5 1/2 feet, industry experts say. This design is intended to be more family friendly. It also helps deal with the problem of those cold spots in the deep end - the shallower the pool, the easier to keep the temperature more uniform. Another trend is in the lighting and fountain accessories that dress up a back yard environment.

“You can now have lots of different lights and you can have your laminars that actually shoot water from the deck into the swimming pools with color streams and color wheels and things like that.

So the ancillary add-on products, I have seen, have probably come into play as much as or more than any other type of really big changes in the last years in the swimming pools themselves,” says Penny Johnson, Chairwoman of the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals and co-owner of Johnson Pools and Spas.

She adds, “It creates a fabulous lighting effect in the evening to go along with your outdoor entertainment.”

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