Swimming Pool Design Ideas

Adding a swimming pool to a villa or a house design adds luxury to the overall look. Having a fun area for you and your family to enjoy staying home isn’t a bad thing after all.

Swimming pools designs varies as taste varies so you can either add a small swimming pool or a large one according to the area that is available in your house. It might be indoors away from sun rays or outside in the house garden.

Swimming pools’ designs are unlimited, you can add beauty and well-being to enjoy comfort with entertainment and impair the satisfactory that comes out of this refreshing part of your house.

1. 1.      Convenient Entry and Exit to and from the Swimming Pool

The ease and convenience in entering and exiting a swimming pool is maintained by adding inclination to floor of the pool or adding wide steps inside the pool that leads eventually to the deeper side of the pool , in addition to stairs “inside the pool” that lead to the ground level outside the pool. These additions will make the experience of entering a pool and exiting it easy and convenient, taking into account the safety conditions.

1. 2.      Waterfalls and Fountains

While the fountain basin level is higher than the level of the swimming pool, the water will pour in the pool through a gradual passage and will flow like a waterfall. It’s a good way to combine fountains and pools. The form of the fountain can be created according to the person’s taste such as; to be placed in a higher place so the water would fall as raindrops or to flow from the pool’s wall when its level is a little bit higher. Another kind of forms is to position a smaller pool on top of a large one so the water would fall from the higher pool to lower one creating a waterfall, or a waterfall with trees on either side of the pool with water falling through the marbles inside the pool makes it beautiful and attractive and many other ideas and designs that you can get from the designers and engineers of ALGEDRA that fit your taste and increase the aesthetic side of your swimming pool.

1. 3.      Gradient Ground on the Edges of the Swimming Pool

The area surrounding the swimming pool is very important for relaxation or for those who want to enjoy the atmosphere surrounding the pool or want to do activities in this place. This area can be covered in grass with chairs and tables placed on it or it can be made of stones that are special to surround swimming pools. To add more activities around it, the ground could be gradient where you can exploit the higher level areas to put chairs for relaxation or a Counter to prepare drinks and snacks.

In addition to the usual designs of a swimming pool such as the rectangular, oval or circular, we can simulate nature in the pool design so the pool would have zigzag edges. The surrounding area must have stones of different shapes. Dense plants and the finishing materials should be as close to nature as possible to create a successful design. You can give romance a shot by creating a heart-shaped pool with some lighting, colors and plants. Or if you want it to be fun and entertaining you can combine three or two shapes together with some water slides and water games that are

1. 1.      Shapes for the Swimming Pool’s Design

In addition to the usual designs of a swimming pool such as the rectangular, oval or circular, we can simulate nature in the pool design so the pool would have zigzag edges. The surrounding area must have stones of different shapes. Dense plants and the finishing materials should be as close to nature as possible to create a successful design. You can give romance a shot by creating a heart-shaped pool with some lighting, colors and plants. Or if you want it to be fun and entertaining you can combine three or two shapes together with some water slides and water games that are suitable for the size of the pool to push entertainment to the limit, and taking into account designing activity areas for both kids and adults.

1. 2.      Indoor Swimming Pool

This keeps privacy and the design choices are also unlimited. The design of this pool depends on the space available and what you want to have in this area. You can have a wood ceiling, stone tile and brick walls or a modern circular gypsum ceiling that suits a circular swimming pool with columns and plaster walls. This will make you feel like you are having an adventure in a secret cave.

Modern Arabic seating with a design of refreshing colors and lights with Hanging lanterns and adding some decorative panels carved on the walls and the luxury will complete with some curtains falling from the ceiling. The use of wood and plants is good for a more refreshing look.

If there is enough space you can add metal columns to reflect the image of the shimmering water everywhere and adding shimmering accessories around to add shine or a wooden mosaic to add the Islamic character to the place. Also, artistic painting adds beauty to the indoor pools. Moroccan, Italian and many others are great for your private pool.

1. 3.      The Pool Lighting

Lighting is very important for the pool design, especially at night. The lighting should distribute inside and outside the pool. It can be on the side “on the walls of the pool” or a ground lighting that reflects from the top to the bottom. You can also rely on accessories such as stone lights that give the illusion of a more natural look and it should be in a different shade that coordinates with the nature of the surrounding plants’ leaves and roses.

The Night lighting reflects its rays on the surface of the water which gives a very attractive and relaxing look to the pool and the side lighting of the garden when facing the swimming pool reflect very beautiful colors.

The lighting of the swimming pool itself is very important. You can use multiple forms of lighting such as wall mounted, ground and upper fixed lighting that suits the seating surrounding it. As the lighting complements the existing architectural elements and highlights the aesthetic aspects of trees, as the lighting might be similar to the nature of a tree log, leaves or the water. The source of the lightings must be hidden very well behind the bushes or between the trees’ branches.

The special lighting in your swimming pool reflects a unique psychological impact and gives an extraordinary atmosphere to achieve the desired beauty and comfort.

In the end you can exploit the area of the swimming pool for several uses such as private parties and family celebrations, some floating candles or roses on the surface of the water will astonish the guests with their beauty.