An outdoor pool is only as amazing as what surrounds it. If you feel like your backyard is far from the oasis you envisioned, it’s time to find out what customized hardscaping and landscaping additions can transform the vibe and the view. Get ready by connecting with a designer and builder now so enhancements can be installed in time for a sensational summer.
Useful Hardscaping for a Backyard Pool
Envisioning warm, sunny summer days can get you through the depths of a Michigan winter, especially when you can look out upon your backyard and see a beautiful pool that’s just waiting for you. These upgrades can be the difference between ho-hum and wow.
- Pool decking. The addition of pool decking is for both aesthetics and safety. This perimeter is constructed using slip-resistant materials that will not become too hot in the summer sun, so it’s comfortable to walk around barefoot and keep grass out of the pool. Decking also creates an area where lounge chairs, umbrellas, pool accessories, and more can find a home.
- Seat walls. It’s nice to add seating to any hangout area, especially outdoors. Installing a seat wall alongside your pool or patio delivers convenient places to sit and enjoy the sun. If the stone or brick gets wet from bathing suits, it will dry quickly, and the spot will be welcome to pool devotees who want a place to park for a snack or time away from the water.
- Water features. Water elements in or out of the pool area enhance your backyard with their unique look and function. Add a waterfall that flows into the pool or pool scuppers that complement the pool’s look. Invest in a nearby bubbler, stream, or pond for a natural element alongside a manmade one – there can never be too much water in a backyard oasis.
- Fire elements. When it comes to summer and swimming pools, you may not automatically think of elements like fire pits, but the installation of a circular or square structure delivers soft lighting and warmth on cool nights when you still want to swim but you don’t want to shiver. Not to mention a customized fire element offers a place to easily roast a snack in between dips.
Enhance the Landscaping Around Your Pool
You don’t necessarily want a lot of vegetation right near your pool, but including features that surround your pool and complement it can make your outdoor oasis much more relaxing. Landscaping features, in fact, can act as the accessories to your outdoor room by affecting nearly all the senses.
- Add sound. Rustling leaves, flowering shrubs, and trickling water.
- Inject texture. Soft flowers, spiky plants, smooth pavers.
- Infuse with color. A spectrum of greenery, colorful flowers, trees with different bark.
Landscaping gives your pool area proportion, unity, and weight. Repetition and a little organized chaos can be designed to deliver balance and a visually harmonious outdoor space.
Transform Your Pool Area in Time for Summer
When winter gets you down and summer feels achingly far away, look out at your pool and envision the best. Then contact Visionary Landscaping in Bruce Township, MI, to talk about enhancements in hardscaping and landscaping that will make all the difference in how your warm months shape up for this year and the years ahead.
