If you’re like most people, summer means swimming, and everyone who enjoys swimming appreciates a nice pool. If you own your house, you may have been thinking about adding a pool to your property. Things like lighting, water features, accessories, and sundecks adds value to your pool as well as visual aesthetic. As you plan your pool, consider these top five add-ons others choose when building or remodeling their pool.
Sundecks
One of the most popular feature to add to a pool is a sundeck. Maybe this is because bathing by the pool is just as popular as actually being in the pool. It also provides a space to relax when you’re tired of swimming as well as offers the perfect space for entertaining at parties. Decorate these spaces with elegant lounges and colorful accessories that catch the eye.
Spas
Another hot add-on that promotes that relaxing atmosphere with new pool builds is the attached spillover spas. You can design these to add to the overall design of the landscaping around the pool so that it blends in and adds to the ambiance of the area as one full piece, rather than two separate pieces. When added onto the in-ground pool during building, it actually adds very little to the actual cost because it can share the same supply, filtration, and heating as the pool. Spas are also exceptionally good add-ons as they promote health and wellness through the combination of heat, buoyancy, and massage. This combination can help with muscle or joint pain, trouble sleeping, and stress relief.
Waterfalls
Waterfalls add to the ambiance for your pool with bubbling sounds and shimming falls of water. Heather Crawford, co- manager of Clearwater pools says “they’re perfect for both straight line and geometric pools” adding that there are many designs of waterfalls to choose from including “natural rock falls or more formal sheer descents.” You can also add a fun, unique feature by creating a cave hidden behind your waterfall. Many companies like Clearwater Pools can add bubblers and deck jets to provide visual interest as well as the enjoyable, relaxing sound of tumbling waters. With so many options and ways to create them, waterfalls can be enjoyable for everyone in your pool.
Vanishing Edges
If you want to add a little mystery and intrigue to your pool and an extra beauty feature, vanishing edges, also called infinity edges, are a popular add on to consider. Vanishing edges give the illusion of the pool falling off an edge as water cascades over the edge. From the back side, it creates a beautiful waterfall, so you get the added sound and ambiance of the waterfall feature as well.
Tanning and Swimming Ledges
A classic, popular addition for the relaxing lounge ambiance of pools is the tanning and swimming ledges. Some also call these baja shelves. These are different from sundecks as they provide lounging space inside the pool.
According to Crawford, “they can be made anywhere from 9-18 inches deep and fit with any pool design that you choose.”
Perhaps the most appealing part of this feature is that it “provides the perfect place for small children to play safely while the adults lounge These ledges can be built into both gunite and vinyl liner pools and umbrella holes can be included to provide for shaded lounge areas.
If you think you want any or all of these features added to your pool design, talk to your local pool design specialist about how you want your pool to look, what atmosphere you want to promote, and how these might fit with the pol design you have in mind.
