@mellybean1, Hubby and I have installed an indoor pool into the home we are currently building but fortunately we were able to do everything ourselves, including all the foundations, pool excavation, plumbing and concreting. Could't begin to work out how much you would have to pay to have a pool installed on a slope too and totally by others but I'll give you a bit of an idea of what I know: Engineers plans for pool construction - $3,000 Fibreglass pool - $20,000 Excavation costs including removal of soil with trucks, if you cant use it elsewhere in the build: $10,000 Excavation if you had rocks: $20,000 Foundations a bit of an unknown but a concrete pool about 15m x 3m x 1.5m would include several loads of concrete at approx $1,000 a load and each truck load would hold about 5 mtrs. I'm guessing about 3 loads for the pool alone, however concrete used in pools is differend and sprayed on and not installed like ordinary concrete that can slump, so it's probably allot more than $1,000 a load. Concrete pump to use to construct concrete pool: $2,000 to come to your door before it begins forming up the pool. Pool fencing, a guess $5,000 You won't have much change out of about $80,000 My figures could be a bit wrong but they will be fairly close. Labour nowadays constitutes approx.60-70% of the value of the works to be performed. Best of luck. Cheers, Barbara

Had you considered reconfiguring and adding to the pool fence in order to incorporate the pergola inside pool fence boundary? I can certainly understand there are pros and cons to this, but I thought I would throw it out there. In any case, landscaping, lighting and painting pergola a more harmonious colour seem very good ideas to me. If you sketch out on paper some of the various plans and ideas you like or have in mind, and colour-in the different features, this might help you visualise things better. It's sort of rudimentary, but I have done it several times and it did help me 'see'. Best wishes, and please keep us posted on how you are going.

@ Ba Beltramo, I think this dilemma might be better solved if we we had pictures, as suggested by rahnch but if that is too difficult to provide, it would help if you supplied more information about exactly where this pool sits as opposed to the home and what size and shape it is including the lay of the land, pool fencing etc... I'm a little concerned about some of the suggestions that even talk of possibly destroying the pool although I have nothing personally against the suggestion providing you are well informed and take into account what will best suit you personally. After reading you dilemma heading again, "Re-design the space AFTER pool" I'm now assuming that the pool may already be gone and you have a huge hole where it once sat?? If that's the case, then it could be as simple as filling the hole in as you suggested yourself. If the pool is still in place and you are considering filling it in, then I would be concerned about your thoughts to effectively destroy it when I personally know just how costly is it to have a pool in the first place with many people who could only dream of having one!! At the end of the day, your property must work for you but I would hope you give it allot of thought before you do anything.

It’s the wall colour that doesn’t look nice everything else is fine. Repaint the wall it’s easy and you want regret it , use neutral colours but not light go for darker and for the corner I would plant giant bird of paradise either in the huge pot or if possible in the ground but keep it well away from the wall to give it space to grow and give you tropical look and feel. If you are using pots you can have few of them they won’t drop leaves in the pool.