Indoor Pools to Love All Year Round
You'll never be stuck indoors with the kids on a wintery day when you splash out on an indoor pool
Susan Redman
6 May 2015
Houzz Australia Editorial Staff; writer, author, dreamer.
Swimming fanatics and families with water babies love a dip in a private backyard pool in summer, but when they want to do laps in the cooler months, they usually have to go to a public pool. If you are planning to install a pool at home, why not maximise its use throughout the year and bring it inside? Get inspired by these gorgeous designs and their indoor-outdoor pool houses.
Blue lagoon. A contemporary farmhouse site in country Victoria is the setting for a group of interconnected low-lying pavilions, made from economical steel portal frames with fibreglass sheet cladding to allow plenty of natural light to flood the rooms. One of the pavilions houses a spectacular indoor pool lined with indigo tiles.
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Into the woods. This indoor pool has large sliding doors, which, when fully open, gives swimmers the feeling of being outdoors while still undercover.
Night sky. Designer Suzanne Hunt planned an indoor pool and basement gym with a difference by creating a long pavilion featuring a glittering ceiling. The ‘star’ effect was created by hundreds of LED threads individually installed in the ceiling. To ensure it looked like the night sky, the ceiling was painted with Dulux ‘Monument’, which contrasted with the turquoise pool, made from glass L’Elba tile from Bisazza.
Take a tour of this house
Take a tour of this house
Far horizons. Blurring the line between indoor and outdoor areas, this cantilevered pool demonstrates how you can have the best of both (watery) worlds if you have the space, finances and favourable climate to build a pool that extends from an inside living area to the outside. This grand home is a waterside property bordered by a lagoon. When standing on the inside looking out, the illusion of an infinity-style pool is created.
Tropical delight. Why not bring some of the garden indoors, too? This pool with a view also benefits from the addition of tropical plants and pendant lanterns.
Up on high. This large indoor pool is housed in a lofty nine-metre high annex with a Cathedral ceiling. The pool house also offers a lounge area, hot tub, and a kitchenette, making it the perfect weekend retreat.
Resort report. This indoor lap pool and spa has a soaring glass window at one end for swimmers to direct their gaze as they go through their sets. A few steps through the glass doors, an outdoor pool awaits, mirroring the indoor design.
Heavens above. Large transparent roofs bring a glasshouse appeal to pool pavilions; they also provide ample natural ventilation. The homeowners of this pool spared no expense when building the pool as part of a total house construction project sited in Canada. It’s an all-tile pool lined with Italian Bisazza glass tile in aqua blue. In addition to the lap pool, there’s also a plunge pool and a whirlpool, seen here in the foreground.
Top deck. This contemporary indoor pool house features a beautiful teak deck worthy of an exclusive outdoor entertaining area. At one end of the long pool space, a setting of rattan chairs designed by Isamu Noguchi is the perfect place from which to look out a generous window to a serene Japanese-style rock garden.
Swirl pool. Located in a restored historical villa in Italy, this pool is in a room cut into bedrock. Big enough for a good dip but still small enough to use as a spa, the pool can be enjoyed in any season and at any time of day.
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Fit for a king. The opulent design of this enclosed pool is reminiscent of ancient Roman bathhouses designed for the aristocracy, so it’s certainly fit for a modern-day king of industry.
Space age. This pool is on the lowest level of a contemporary new home build, on what was a gap site in a conservation area within an inner suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. Its basement location is perfect for keeping out cold in winter, but being subterranean it was originally tough finding a way to get in natural light. To solve the problem, the architects, Zone Architects, fitted a full width skylight window along one end of the pool house bunker.
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