# Pool ideas for a ranch house

A ranch house is low and wide, so the pool should be relaxed and easy to walk out to. Here are 6 designs.

A freeform or kidney shape, a broad deck and shade trees suit a single-story house and a lawn that runs right up to the water.

## Designs

- [Ranch-style starter pool in a Fort Worth suburb](https://rendersplash.com/pool-ideas/ranch-style-starter-pool-fort-worth): A square-cornered rectangle with a big shallow end and nothing fancy, built around Friday night cookouts.
- [Arcadia ranch pool under the citrus trees in Phoenix](https://rendersplash.com/pool-ideas/arcadia-citrus-yard-pool-phoenix): An irrigated lawn, orange trees and a freeform pool with a hot tub out to one side, the classic Arcadia yard.
- [Foothills ranch pool with a separate hot tub in Tucson](https://rendersplash.com/pool-ideas/foothills-ranch-pool-tucson): A kidney on a desert acre, a fire pit for the cold January nights and the Catalinas behind everything.
- [Hillside pool with a Pikes Peak view in Colorado Springs](https://rendersplash.com/pool-ideas/pikes-peak-hillside-pool-colorado-springs): A kidney on a terraced slope, with a raised wall at the low side and the mountain filling the horizon.
- [Prairie ranch pool on acreage near Kansas City](https://rendersplash.com/pool-ideas/prairie-ranch-pool-kansas-city): A big kidney with a separate hot tub, a fire pit and nothing but sky and corn behind the fence.
- [Pool on a steep Pittsburgh lot with a city view](https://rendersplash.com/pool-ideas/steep-lot-pool-pittsburgh): A rectangle on a terrace cut into the hill, a raised wall on the downhill side and the rivers in the distance.