THE POOL: FROM RENDERING TO REALITY (PART-2) // Before

We started with the "after" in Part-1 ... in Part-2, we'll delve into the before and walk you through the two pools we've built.

But first with the extreme before.

in 2011, we entertained the thought is putting in a pool... this would seriously disrupt the backyard we had worked to plan and develop, but the summers were getting hotter and we were getting less enthused with watering and caring for a lawn that we simply looked at and didn't use that much.

From the initial post, we got a good bit of feedback including a visit from Royal pools. And I meticulously measured and drew the layout of our yard — this would be a rendering that would see countless versioning over the next 10 years.

[It's amazing that our final pool looks so much like the original rendering from 2011!]

[It's amazing to look back and see how far the yard has come from the first time we looked at the house.]

[The first iteration found us clearing and cleaning up a lot, but ultimately left us with a yard that was pretty, but not terribly usable.]