Here’s a cool series of photos from the drone over our Swimming Pool in Progress
This pool is an amazing work of water art by Al Curtis and the team at Legendary Escapes. The customer originally wanted a backyard escape for their family to enjoy and bring everyone home to enjoy. The customer’s enjoy entertaining and have a pretty fun and large extended family, so something for everyone was the over-reaching goal. Once we started talking about themes, and places the family likes to visit, the Streets of Mackinac in Michigan came to mind. From family antique shoppes below the Mackinaw Bridge to the Horse and Buggy Rides on Mackinac Island, this theme brings many things together, family, Michigan, vacations, summer fun, nostalgia and the ability to create fun and quirky themed areas with no shortage of ideas and accoutrements.
Once Al started designing, the homeowner’s decided to let the project take on a life of it’s own. If there was a great idea for a feature, or something that our team just had to have in the project, all we had to do was mention it and it became something incorporated into the pool. Al’s always had the desire to do something special with an actual boat in relation to a pool, so this was the perfect place to add a 1964 Chris Craft Boat as the swim up bar. The boat in the driveway looked larger than life, but once it was placed in the yard and the pool built around it, it looks like it always belonged there, and is at the perfect size/scope for this pool! Most people would think, “A boat in the pool?” think that is crazy, and it would never work. Fortunately Al’s reputation and pool building body of work speak for themselves, and this isn’t such a crazy idea after all.
The pool is large for a residential swimming pool, at just shy of 65,000 gallons when it’s all calculated. The pool has several equipment systems to keep the water flowing and filtering properly. It also has a heater and heat pump to keep it warm in our Michigan weather. The surround of the pool are shoppes, stores, and sights from the imagination that you may expect to see on an up north adventure. Stay tuned to find out how we wrap up this amazing ‘scape in the summer of 2025!
This is amazing! I am curious though, how do you close it for the winter….or do you? Also, will there be a fence around it?
Thank you!
There will be a fence around it, and we will close it like a typical pool with a safety cover for winter. We’ll post photos once we do!