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Pool Landscaping Tips and Hints

Landscaping Tips for Your Pool

For new pool owners and renovators, landscaping around your pool should create an environment where you can entertain and relax. Here are a few pool landscaping tips that can help you with pool landscaping:

Planting

Plant foliage adds beauty and cools the pool area. To avoid spending more time cleaning your pool than swimming in it, consider adding plants like Star Jasmine, Agave and Mondo Grass. Chat to your local landscape architect or designer and they’ll help you find plants that will compliment your pool setting.

Fencing

It will keep you and your family safe and in some cases add an element of privacy. The type of fence you choose depends on your aesthetic preference. Fencing options typically include glass, aluminium and masonry walls. Glass has a luxurious feel that allows the fencing to disappear and showcase the pool as the feature. Aluminium and steel fencing is a more cost effective solution, and if placed correctly in the right garden can fit well.

Lighting

One of the most important pool landscaping tips is to add lighting.  Lighting within and around your pool is critical to its success. Not only does it create an atmosphere within the pool space, it adds to the feel of the whole garden and home, sometimes visually extending your home at night. For energy-efficiency, try LED lights. They are easy to maintain and are cost-effective to leave on for extended periods of time.

Shade and accessories

Whether it is a built form (alfresco style) or natural (trees), shade is important to the success of a pool space. Too much and you will have a cold pool, and too little and the time a pool can be used will be limited in the hottest months. Having a shade over the pool is often a consideration for those with young children, while a space to retreat to and relax by the pool in the shade is also important. Choosing and designing around your favourite piece of poolside furniture, or better still building in some poolside furniture can often drive the size and shape of the covered space. Also, consider a poolside shower or water feature to add to the pool design.

Pool heating

A well-located pool can add a month of swimming time either side of summer through passive solar heating of the pool. Unfortunately, this is not always possible and other supplementary alternatives need to be considered. Fully understanding initial and lifecycle costs of the various heating options (most commonly solar, gas and electric) and their size and space requirements are worthwhile prior to installing your pool. Screening and positioning of these along with the pool pumps and filtration away from your pool living areas and alfresco spaces is a pool landscaping tip that we strongly recommended.

Pool Landscaping Tips from Unit Refurbishments

The idea of pool landscaping is to create an environment that is comfortable for you to relax in and a showpiece to draw the eye. Pools and alfresco living areas are the hubs of outdoor entertaining, so enjoy the process and have fun. If you would like some more pool landscaping tips, please contact us at Unit Refurbishments (renovation builders) on 0417 452 797.