Ahhhhhh, the holidays. A chance to get away from the grind for a few days, relax and celebrate with friends and family, bundle up and enjoy the chilly winter days, drink plenty of hot chocolate, and think about swimming pools.
No, we don’t mean it’s time to hit the water. Even here in Middle Georgia, it’s a little too cold to add Marco Polo and exercise laps to your holiday traditions. But there’s no better time of the year to give your family a holiday gift they’ll enjoy for years and years to come – a new custom swimming pool from Mid State Pools and Spas!
After all, long after the toys, video games, clothes, and other holiday gifts have been broken, lost, defeated, outgrown, or otherwise forgotten, your custom pool will be a source of fun and relaxation. Want some more reasons to make this holiday one they’ll remember for ages? Here you go.
Custom Swimming Pools Invite Fun
We’ll start with the main reason families choose to install custom swimming pools: because they’re fun! When you have a beautiful custom pool in your backyard, alone or as part of a complete outdoor living space, your home will soon become “the fun house.”
From just having the kids’ friends over to swim all afternoon to family get-togethers and late-night pool parties for the grownups, there’s no gathering that isn’t made immediately more enjoyable with the addition of a swimming pool.
And, when you choose to purchase a pool from a reputable, licensed custom pool installer, you can select any number of features to increase the fun factor even higher:
- Waterslides
- Pool games – basketball hoops and volleyball nets
- Deck jets
- Poolside bars
- Custom A/V setups, including sound systems and TVs
Custom Swimming Pools Promote Healthy Activity
In just a few weeks, we’ll change our 2024 calendars out for 2025 calendars, and we all know what that means–resolution time. According to statistics, about 50% of folks are going to vow to get in better shape by the end of 2025. If you’re one of them, you can be a part of the few who stick with it all year long with help from your pool.
Grownups aren’t the only ones who need to get a little more exercise. How much time do kids spend inside, playing video games, watching video clips on their phones or tablets, or otherwise staring at a screen? Establishing healthy habits early—including abandoning a sedentary lifestyle before adulthood—has long-term health benefits that can last a lifetime.
For the young ones, blessed little balls of energy they are, just getting in the water and playing at full intensity until you drag them back inside makes for a great workout. (It’s also the best sleep aid ever discovered. If your little ones get rambunctious after bedtime, a pool is the surefire cure.)
For the grownups, the pool offers incredible health benefits. Lap swimming is excellent cardio work, and there are thousands of other pool exercises you can use to build strength, improve balance, increase circulation, and generally improve your overall well-being.
Custom Swimming Pools Encourage Relaxation
Sometimes, being healthy means not being more active. There’s no one on Earth that doesn’t experience stress. And in today’s go-go-go hectic world, stress quickly becomes the norm. That’s bad for your heart, bad for your stomach, and incredibly bad for your brain. Living too long with too much stress can lead to high blood pressure, gastrointestinal sensitivities, and mental health concerns like anxiety and depression.
Your new custom pool might not help much with slowing down the day-to-day rat race, but it can surely help you forget about it at the end of the day. Just being near water has been proven to have therapeutic calming benefits. Getting in the water for a lazy float works even better.
If relaxation is a major reason you’re looking at a custom pool for your family, there are dozens of features you can add that will help you de-stress and unwind every time you step into your backyard:
- Tanning ledges and beach entries
- Water features like fountains and waterfalls
- Expanded decks and patios for loungers and chaises
- Custom LED lighting to create a soothing atmosphere
- Sound systems to add relaxing music or nature sounds to your downtime
Custom Swimming Pools Increase Your Home’s Value
We’ve been talking about all the benefits you’ll get from enjoying your new custom pool, but there’s another benefit that you’ll see if you ever need to sell your home: a significant increase in your home’s value and curb appeal.
According to Bankrate.com, homes with pools tend to command about a 7% higher price than comparable homes without a pool. And here in Georgia, where pools can be used for almost 8 months out of the year, that premium can go even higher.
Start Your Custom Pool Now to Be Ready for Summer
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither is a custom pool. Although installing a pool may take less time than building a house, it’s still a fairly involved process that will take several months. If you wait until May to get started, you will not be swimming this summer.
Starting construction in January doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be ready to dive in as soon as school is out for the summer, but Mid State Pools can, in most cases, have you swimming before summer ends.
Special Supplement: How to Surprise Your Kids With a Custom Pool
Real talk: it is literally impossible to surprise your kids with a completed new custom pool, at least not if it’s going to be installed at your primary residence. Hiding the earthmoving equipment, cement trucks, stacks of building supplies, and work crews would be a trick worthy of Houdini.
Fortunately, when you work with Mid State Pools and Spas, you might still pull off a little holiday magic. During the design phase for your new pool, we’ll present you with a detailed 3D rendering of your new backyard, complete with a custom pool. Buy an inexpensive frame that will hold one large central photo and a few smaller ones. Put your rendering in the middle, surrounded by pictures (if you have them) of your family playing in the water at other pools, the beach, or the lake. Wrap that, hold it back until the end of the gift exchange, and then let the kids unwrap it and wait for the squeals of delight.
Spruce Up Your Outdoor Living This Year – Mid State Pools Has What You Need!
Mid State Pools and Spas provides outdoor living accessories and builds custom pools for residential and commercial customers in:
- Warner Robins
- Macon
- Forsyth
- Perry
- Milledgeville
- Lake Oconee
- And all across Middle Georgia!