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This digital document is an article from Custom Home, published by Hanley-Wood, Inc. on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 625 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Details
Title: Wade in: beach entries and sun shelves make fine entry points.
Author: Sharon Edry
Publication: Custom Home (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Hanley-Wood, Inc.
Volume: 13 Issue: 6 Page: SS6(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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These days, pool design is all about creating a backyard oasis. So the popularity of beach entries and sun shelves makes perfect sense: They're beautiful, safe, practical, and fun. They add a resort-like quality to just about any backyard pool. Beach entries, also known as zero-depth entries, do just what the name implies: They allow the same kind of gradually sloping entry into the water that you find at the beach. Sun shelves, also called tanning ledges, step-outs, or Baja steps, are a more compact cousin. They are a shallow ledge made for lounging and playing. Where a beach entry starts at ground level and gradually slopes to the depth of the shallow end of the pool, a...
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