You know when can a house be considered successful? When it becomes a pleasant place to live in. When every article of home décor you have in the house, is beautiful and meaningful to you. When your home is your palace – a fortress of safety, a manor of exquisite taste and a mansion where warm memories are made. There are several ways you can achieve this and adding a pool to the outer space is one of the most lavish and elegant methods of doing so.
A pool can in fact, transform your entire space and well life! Here are ten of the often overlooked ways a pool can add a royal touch to your home and living:
Keeps the family physically fit
The sheer benefits of swimming on your and the family’s health are enough to cover the cost of installing a pool at home. It has something to offer for the whole family. Swimming helps build stamina, increase strength, keep the heart healthy and tone muscles. It is a great weight-loss exercise. It is also great for asthmatic kids who cannot perform other cardiovascular exercises. Swimming is a low risk exercise because it does not trigger asthma attacks. Further, the family can improve coordination, sense of balance, flexibility and even posture by swimming.
Including the ones who don’t swim
Perhaps the best thing about owning a swimming pool is the freedom to have non-swimmers enjoy the health benefits too. Low impact workouts like aquatic aerobics and water exercises, even walking or mild jogging in the pool improve physical fitness. When you have a pool at home, the non-swimmers feel more at ease with their inability to swim while being in the water, and are not shy in undertaking aquatic exercises.
Improves mental health and well being
Water is a natural stress buster. From swimming to just floating aimlessly in water, you can keep stress at bay by entering your pool. It is also great for overall mental health. You cannot after all be unhappy while goofing around in water or while watching the kids splash water at themselves and you.
Keeps the children home
Adding a custom swimming pool to your property greatly reduces the number of times kids force you to bring them around to other kids’ homes or go out on vacations. Pools are in fact, a great option for “stay-cations” – where you get to enjoy quality time with the family during the holidays without leaving the home and worrying about the safety of your property. Further, the kids want to stay at home and their friends come to your place for play dates and sleep overs.
When you own a pool, you are in-charge of its cleanliness and this keeps the kids safe from bacterial and fungal infections that are very common in public pools. The safety of course, extends to all members of the family and you can sit back and relax that your loved ones are enjoying in a well-maintained, sanitary pool.
Brings in grandchildren and relatives more frequently
Ah! One of the many overlooked benefits of having a pool – your palace becomes the private Disney Land of your kids, their cousins, and the grandchildren. There are few things as “cool” for the kids as grandparents who have a private pool. We’re not kidding! Install a BonaVista pool and you’ll see just how magnetic they are in attracting kins.
A word of caution though – be prepared for the numerous phone calls you get from out of town little ones, asking you to stay at home so they can come over during vacations.
Gives you the convenience that public pools don’t
Want to cool off on a late Saturday night? No problem! The kids are up at the crack of dawn and want to swim? No problem! Since you don’t have to reply on public pools, you do not have to schedule your swimming urges according to the opening and closing times of other pools. You have the convenience of a clean pool that is located within the safety of your compound and is open 24x7x365.
Helps the family (and therefore you) sleep better
Swimming is a great exercise. However, just spending time in the pool, splashing water or walking with legs immersed in the water causes fatigue. The water also cools your body down. Thus, children who would normally stay up late at night fall asleep early and sleep deeper because of all that tiring out. Similarly, adults who are insomniac or have trouble sleeping early can sleep better and faster after an hour or a half immersed in water.
Doubles as a venue for socialization
Pools are a wonderful place to throw a party or just invite neighbors, friends and family for some bonding over fun activities and light snacks. It is especially helpful for the social birds that thrive on connections and cordial relationships in the community.
Adds value to your home
The value of your home increases by about five or six percent on an average when you add a concrete or a fiberglass pool. So if your home is worth $600,000, a swimming pool will up its value to $636,000 on an average.