Practical advice for pool owners and enthusiasts
The pool gets handed over. The water is in, the tiles are clean, and the garden around it is still bare ground. Pool landscaping starts months later, often with a different company, and by then the deck levels, the drainage falls and the equipment position are all fixed.
A pool design gets signed off in a meeting that lasts an hour. Shape, tile, coping, lighting, done. Designing a swimming pool in Dubai means settling a second set of decisions that are rarely on the table in that meeting.
Shape is the first thing most villa owners settle, and the smallest part of the decision. In Dubai, what separates a pool your family swims in every week from one that sits covered from May to September is not the outline on the plan.
If you own a villa in Dubai, or you're thinking about buying one, you've probably wondered whether a pool is worth what it costs to build and keep.