# What To Do With An Unused Indoor Pool

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-an-unused-indoor-pool/758079>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 22, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-an-unused-indoor-pool/758079 "2016-06-22T19:45:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-an-unused-indoor-pool/758079/21 "2016-06-26T02:27:59Z")

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The college where I work had one, it sat empty for years because it wasn’t part of a gym complex (we have those, too), but a pool that came with a random building that the school purchased. The pool hadn’t been used for years.

Recently it was turned into a lounge, it’s nice enough. There are cafe tables around the area that used to be the deck, and then wide tiers were built up on the slope of the interior of the pool, and there are clusters of chairs on each one. At what was the deepest end of the pool, there’s a flat area that can be used for presentations – the speakers are standing in the deep end, and the audience is seated up along the tiers, like an amphitheater.

Originally there had been some of that cool tilework decorating the pool area (I think it was art deco era) and I had been hopeful that some of that could be preserved and incorporated into the lounge, but apparently after many years of neglect there wasn’t hardly anything left by the time the space was converted.

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**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-an-unused-indoor-pool/758079/22 "2016-06-26T02:40:01Z")

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Use it for a huge fish pool or fill with dirt and made an indoor garden .

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**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-an-unused-indoor-pool/758079/23 "2016-06-26T03:13:59Z")

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My wife and I briefly considered buying a fixer upper that had an unused inground pool inside. I had visions of putting a temporary deck type of floor over it and using the pool as a storage room. Once our kids were old enough to swim safely, we could remove the floor and use the pool again. We ended up not buying the house, though.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-an-unused-indoor-pool/758079/24 "2016-06-26T16:57:12Z")

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**More details, please.**  
Rectangular, oval, or kidney-shaped?  
What is the rest of the room like?  
Are there skylights?

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**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-an-unused-indoor-pool/758079/25 "2016-06-27T16:47:19Z")

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Giant Asian hot pot

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