8.2m Vogue with Sunken Spa, Quartz, Western Melbourne VIC

The brief

A forever-home pool that’s easy to maintain — from kids to teenagers, today through the next decade.

Busy working family. They didn’t have time to skim leaves daily or chase chemistry. The Vogue’s safety step ledge meant the small kids had a place to rest within reach; the open lap corridor will serve the teenagers later. Two phases of family life, one pool.

The sunken spa

A water bridge between pool and spa makes them look like one body of water — with both able to heat separately.

The X-Trainer spa sits sunken alongside the pool, with a small water bridge connecting the two surfaces. Visually it reads as one continuous body. Mechanically the spa can isolate for hot-only running, so the family can have winter spa nights without heating the entire pool.

Working with the house builder

Pool installed before the house build started — the only practical way with a large-builder timeline.

Large house builders have strict processes — we don’t get site access mid-build. So we did the pool first, locked it under a protection lid, then returned at lock-up to install the equipment. Less collaboration than smaller builds, but the only way that works at this scale of project.

App-controlled everything

Pool, spa, lights and heating — all controlled from a phone. Wallace the Groodle approves.

Heating, lighting, sanitisation and circulation all run through phone-based controls. Heat the spa on the drive home from work; switch the LEDs on for evening; check chemistry on a Sunday morning without going outside. The dog still has to swim manually.