Having your own backyard pool can be possible even if you don't have tons of outdoor space to play with. From cocktail pools to lap pools, plunge pools to swim spas – there are all kinds of styles ...

Installing a lap pool typically costs between $4,000 and $100,000, with a national average cost of $44,000. Some of the factors that affect the total cost include the size, material, and style of the ...

When it’s blazing hot outside, who doesn't enjoy cooling off in a backyard pool? But pools are pricey investments, especially when you’re watching your pennies. Thanks to a recent do-it-yourself ...

Designer pools bring status to luxury homes and five-star hospitality spaces. But adding the cooling, calming, energizing, and environmental benefits of a hyper-local water body to a residence can far ...

Love surfing but don't live near the ocean? Your backyard could host waves of its own — of course, if you're willing to make ...

Maybe you rented a place with a pool and liked it. Or you’ve decided, for sundry reasons, that you’d like to swim in your backyard. For some homeowners, a vintage pool already in place — say, one ...

Years ago, startups called Uber and Airbnb changed the way Americans thought about taxicabs and hotels. An app named Swimply is attempting another paradigm shift. This time, the subject is swimming ...

A recent press release from Latham, the largest designer, manufacturer, and marketer of residential swimming pools in North America, highlights the increasing screen time among American adolescents, ...

If the benefits of swimming haven’t gotten you in the water yet, the boost that swimming gym exercises can give any athlete might seal the deal. Swimming pool exercises boost fitness, flexibility, and ...

Public pools can have strict rules. Apartment pools can get crowded. Sometimes you need a little extra privacy. Enter: Swimply, which is essentially Airbnb but for backyard pools, which you rent by ...

Not everyone can have a backyard swimming pool. The cost, the space, the maintenance, the months of rain, the fear of raccoon drownings all make a private pool outside of the realm of possibility for ...