Personal Stories: Nesting With Grace

There’s nothing quite like watching a Leisure Pool being installed. Measurements taken. A hole dug. A pool delivered and placed. And the anticipation of a Life of Leisure written all over the faces of a family.

A fiberglass pool can be a practical family choice when the project needs to fit limited space, a defined budget, and a fast path to use.

  • Fit The Yard: With limited space in the backyard, the family chose a 30-foot Ultimate fiberglass pool after careful research, showing that size constraints can still leave room for a full in-ground setup.
  • Move Quickly: Work began at the beginning of April and within a few weeks the family was already enjoying the new pool, which kept the installation timeline short enough to matter during a busy season at home with three young children.
  • Expect The Stages: The process moved through yard preparation, digging, delivery, lowering the pool into place, setting it, filling it with water, and then finishing with paving, landscaping, and patio furniture.
  • Plan For Disruption: The middle of the project can feel messy with a large hole, mud, permits, and payments still fresh in mind, but the turning point came once the pool was physically in the ground and the space started to feel real.

The clearest takeaway is that a pool project often feels most manageable when the family chooses a design that matches the yard and accepts the temporary mess as part of getting to daily use.

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Nesting with Grace is a blogger and Instagram personality based in Connecticut. For more than a decade, she has shared insights about maintaining and decorating her family’s home. This spring, amidst the stay-at-home orders and three young children to entertain, she and her husband decided to install a pool in their back yard. And fortunately for us, she blogged and filmed videos of the family’s experience with installing their dream.

Space was limited and so was their budget, so after much careful research, they opted for a fiberglass pool, specifically a Leisure Pools 30-foot Ultimate. Work began at the beginning of April and within a few weeks, they were enjoying their brand new pool.

Their experience, while unique to them, is a fairly typical installation of a Leisure Pools swimming pool. First, there was the prep of the back yard and the digging of the pool’s placement. The anticipation at this stage can be difficult, by the way. There’s this huge hole, the back yard is a mess and there’s no pool in sight.

But then… the pool arrives!

After squeezing its way into the back yard, the pool is gently lowered into place. This is when, for Nesting with Grace and her family, it started to become real. Sure, it was still cold outside and there was mud everywhere, but it suddenly wasn’t just a site plan, down payment checks and building permits anymore. It was an actual pool, going into the ground. Not long after, the pool was set and it was filled with water. It really was just that simple. All that was left was paving, landscaping and placing the patio furniture. Oh, and of course, diving into their Life of Leisure.

To read about Nesting with Grace’s experience with buying and installing her family’s Leisure Pool, click here, or watch her Instagram video to see more.

Or, even better yet, click here to start your own Leisure Pools Experience.

Ann Butenas, Copywriting Specialist at Explore Industries

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Written by Ann Butenas.

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