Whether it’s the leaping water of a fountain, the rush of a waterfall or the lull of a babbling brook, moving water is emotionally moving. It can calm us, inspire us and transport us to a more peaceful place. It seems only natural to harness the power of moving water in our poolscapes.
You can add personality to your pool with water features. They offer another dimension of sights, sounds, and smells and a remarkable array of atmospheres to enhance your pool and backyard landscape. They are also a great way to mask outside noises from traffic or neighbours. Here’s how to make a water feature the main attraction in your poolscape.
Water Walls, Waterfalls and Descents
Water features have become standard fixtures in luxury pool design, but the number and variety of water features available have never been more interesting. You can design a natural rock-style pool with grottos or a more modern pool in a minimalist style with sleek lines.
Water walls are popular, offering a visual experience, along with the musical sounds it makes and what it’s made from can affect how the water wall looks and sounds. Water travels differently over a smooth glassy surface than it does over a more textured façade.
Descents create a sheer cascade of water that emerges from a slot in a wall and homeowners also like cascading waterfalls for the soothing sound and sheet waterfalls for drama and sparkle.
Timeless Beauty
Natural materials, like beach pebbles, travertine and natural stone are always elegant and tend not to make pools look dated. You could have a lagoon-style pool with natural rock waterfalls and big grottos or a minimalistic pool with sleek lines and infinity edges around the perimeter of the pool.
Homeowners generally favour things that are authentic, preferring a real rock to an artificial one so that it feels real. Natural materials give pools and water features a timeless beauty. Rocks and waterfalls never seem to go out of style.
Bubblers and Jets
Homeowners looking to add water features have also made bubblers, laminar jets and deck jets popular. Depending on how they’re designed and used, each one can hint at drama, whimsy and everything in between.
Bubblers are water features in which water bubbles up and back onto themselves and are an especially popular feature to add to sun shelves. Sometimes, bubblers and jets are something for the kids to play with, and other times they simply elevate the look of the pool. Adding lighting to water features gives you the effect at night, as well as during the day.
It’s important that you ensure that a water feature incorporates seamlessly into the overall design and style of your pool and outdoor space overall. But, whatever water feature you include in your pool design, will be sure to create a magical effect.