Your Yampa Valley
home could be a page right out of Home & Garden magazine...
we want your home spa to blend right into that beautiful
setting.
These free tips from design experts will
help you design your home spa like a pro!
1. Visual Cues for your Backyard
'Vacation Spot'
Your new spa is a beautiful addition to
your home …why not turn your spa into a focal point
in your backyard vacation spot? After all, everything lovely
goes with an Aqua Vita spa! Some exciting ways to go from
spa to Shangri-Lai:
Vary the grade level. If building a spa
deck, raise one portion of it, lower another.
If digging out for a ground-level deck,
use that dirt for raised flower beds.
Place screens across part of the foreground,
or middle ground, of the landscape - a path, rolling lawn
or fencing will carry the eye past the screen to a focal
point in the back of the landscape, such as a gazebo, mature
tree or bright flower beds. Screens can be plant material
or man-made.
Every landscape should have trees to
provide the necessary vertical element, bringing other dimensions
into harmony. (Garden structures, such as gazebo, provide
vertical lines, too, but on a smaller scale.)
Frame your spa setting with fencing,
to provide privacy, definition of space and a background
for everything else. Make sure the fence harmonizes with
the other design elements in the yard.
While you're at it, why not bring in
an expert to consult on the principles of good spatial design
for the perfect dramatic visual effect.
2. Spa Locations
Keep these thoughts in mind when you're
designing your private vacation spot at home:
Outdoors:
- Close, convenient access to your house.
- The view from your spa.
- The view of the spa from your house,
especially important for supervision of young children.
- Most common wind direction.
- Privacy from neighbors and/or nearby
roads.
- Landscaping around the spa.
- Night-time lighting possibilities.
- Load-bearing ability of your chosen
site.
- Protection from snow and rain.
- Nearby water supply.
- Possible obstructions to the removal
of the spa's cover; space in which to store the cover.
- Location relative to trees (falling
branches, leaves, sap)
- Location relative to electrical panel.
- Fencing, enclosure choices.
- Electrical codes.
- Access to spa equipment cabinet panel.
- Space to put entry steps, if
necessary, for the spa.
Indoors:
- The floor's load bearing capacity (if
in doubt, consult an Architect, the Building Department,
or a Building Contractor.)
- Non-slip flooring around the spa.
- Walls, ceilings and floors must be
able to withstand higher levels of humidity.
- Exhaust fan may be needed to remove
humidity.
- Floor drains to carry off water splashed
from the spa.
- Recessed spas must be positioned to
permit servicing from above or below the floor.
- Avoid second-storey locations above
the finished living space.
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