Decades ago, most homeowners didn’t care about luxurious swimming pools and you’ll only get to find them in five-star hotels, guest houses, and in the homes of some high-profiled individuals in the society. 

But in recent years, the sight of swimming pools gracing the compounds, gardens, and backyards of homes is now common. 

The reason for the change is that people now appreciate the value of having pools in their homes as a medium for exercise, relaxation, comfort, and hydrotherapy more than ever.

If you are thinking of adding a pool to your home, here in this article, you’ll find 5 of the best home pool styling options to choose from.

5 ways to style your home with a pool

1. Explore a tropical theme

Do you love nature? If you do, then you can give your swimming pool a tropical theme. To achieve this, you can leverage the varying shades of green plants and brown of tropical hardwoods in tropical regions.

You can choose to make the seats by the poolside using tropical hardwoods such as bamboo, and make the shades using thatches, and various varieties of green tropical plants like banana plants, palm plants, and umbrella plants.

Depending on your preference, if you love art, then you can include some art designs on the walls close to the pool. A good recommendation would be to use designs (paintings, drawings, sculptures, etc.), of exotic tropical flowers, palm trees, ocean scenes, beach scenes, and other cool designs.

A tropical-themed pool gives people a resort-style feel and a relaxing atmosphere. Plus, it also makes you feel closer to nature.

2. Add water features 

You can style your pool and give it a better aesthetic by adding some water features. Some of the popular features you should consider include:

Swimming pool gushers

Water gushers, also commonly known as bubbles, are features that bubble water from the bottom of the pool, which produces a pleasant water sound. 

Swimming pool scuppers

Scuppers are a pool feature that carries water from a water body and deposits it in a pool through spouts. The spouts are usually placed at heights above the normal level of the pool and are attached to the wall of the pool. 

Asides from improving the aesthetic of your pool, the sound of falling water it produces are calming or soothing.

Pencil jets

Pencil jets are capable of shooting or used to shoot water from the swimming pool deck into the pool. The strong thin streams pouring from the pencil jets and the surrounding of the pool improves the aesthetic of your pool—in other words, makes your pool more beautiful. 

3. Add other features to your tanning ledge

A tanning ledge, also known as a tanning shelf or sun shelf, is a wide shallow pool of water that’s usually at the entrance of a swimming pool and can serve as parts of the steps into a pool.

When constructing your pool, you can tell your contractor to make the tanning ledge wide enough your contain other features like a small table, lounge chairs, and an umbrella. 

Doing this improves your swimming experience. While enjoying the feeling of being partially immersed in water, you can read a book, or have a drink under the shade of an umbrella. What’s more? The tanning ledge is a beautiful sight to see—your friends and loved ones will surely praise you for it.

4. Do a half deck

The area surrounding your pool is known as the pool deck. The pool deck also serves as an area for setting up chairs and tables for fun and relaxation.

Rather than making the deck go round the pool, you can make one of the long sides of your pool and one or both of the short sides. Make the other long side close to the wall and leave a small space in between where you can plant trees or ornamental flowers.

The presence of flowers by the pool sides makes the pool cooler during the day, produces cleaner air, and improves the pool’s aesthetic. However, with this design or style, you’ll have to frequently trim the flowers and prevent the leaves from falling into the water.

5. Add a hot tub

You can make your swimming pool more fun by adding a hot tub to the edge of your swimming pool. This is a great design for people who have always wanted to have a hot tub and a swimming pool in their homes but have limited space.

While the hot tub serves you hot water and powerful jets for therapeutic and recreational purposes, your pool, which is often separated by a wall provides you with cool water for relaxation and swimming.

Compared to constructing a hot tub and swimming pool separately, this minimalistic design provides a variety of fun at a lesser cost. This swimming pool style makes your pool look more exquisite.