Sharon: You will NOT be sorry about the deck! My husband built our deck around the swimming pool so the pool has an inground look. To the right of that, he built a super structurally heavy duty deck (attached to the original deck) that holds our spa. It looks great! I wish we could have gotten a bigger pool, but we also installed that ourselves, so i was glad it was not any bigger at that time!!! LOL! We have really enjoyed our little backyard "oasis".
My goal is to someday have a sunroom with and indoor lap pool or swim spa, and a large inground swimming pool outside. Anyone have about a million dollars they're not using???