Having a swimming pool in the front yard of my house is not something I could ever realistically imagine. The idea of all my neighbors being able to gander at my family splashing in skimpy bathing suits from the street leaves me with an uneasy feeling. Privacy is why pool builders typically opt to put inground pools in the backyard. Honestly, given how much a pool costs - you want to ensure some level of privacy there with a fence or enclosure so that neighbors and passerbys on the street can't get an eye full. I can't imagine that the pool cost would be so dramatically different putting the pool in the front yard or the backyard. I guess it's just homeowner preference. Either way you slice it, it's a funky pool concept that blows my mind.
Front Yard Pools Are Cool, But Weird.
These are some weird examples to me but perfectly illustrate how Front Yard Pools are taking over and suddenly becoming an architectural statement in the home. A couple of these homeowners got it right and one seems to have that whole Fresh Prince of Bel Air vibe going on the last home I showcase.
Why on Earth is there a pool in the front yard of this house? This is the first thing you see when you enter the home. It's unfortunate that the builder of the home opted to set his house so far back from the property line leaving a huge front yard and a tiny postage stamp sized backyard. There's little alternative here if you want a pool, I guess you have to go front yard.
This front yard pool I actually like. It's actually off the main road down a privacy road so there are no privacy issues here. It's kind of misleading here because it's not even the main house. This pool is amazing though and does resemble some sort of front yard pool.
I actually love this front yard pool even though there's no privacy fencing it makes a dramatic architecural statement about the home. I could definitely see more of these in say cities like San Francisco where you are at a big incline. You'd still need a pretty good pool contractor to pull it off nicely though.
Ok, this is my last entry and the front-yarder I was referring to in the beginning of my article. This looks like the house from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and I don't mind the pool in front of it one single bit. This is immaculate and kind of makes me rethink the entire premise of my article. Maybe a front yard pool can actually be a pretty cool thing.
