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To fully enjoy your pool and your outdoors, nothing better than a beautiful pool surround, in the image of your personality. Faced with the wide variety of materials available, it is often difficult to make a choice.
What will be the most suitable material for your style, your expectations, your tastes and your budget? To try to answer this question, we present to you 24 pictures of pool floor coverings and some comparative tips of the main pool cover materials.
Swimming pool surround: which material will be the most suitable for you?
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What criteria should the pool area match? The first, and most important, criterion is that it is slip resistant and resistant to water, salt and chlorine. It must not heat too much in the sun, easy to maintain, aesthetic to match with the outside style of your garden and terrace.
Entourage concrete pool and convenient landscaping in a large garden
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Based on these criteria, the swimming pool surround can be designed in one of the following materials: classic wood, exotic wood, composite wood, tile, marble, stone and concrete.
Entourage wooden pool and modern outdoor furniture
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The wooden pool beach is very popular for its naturalness. Thanks to the multiple species, this option comes in a wide variety of colors, shades and prices. Easy to install, wood is the material that melts with all the styles, all the moods and the surrounding nature. Nice for bare feet, it does not heat up too much in the sun and dries quickly. Apart from its many qualities, one must be vigilant about its maintenance, its loss of color and longevity.
Exotic wood pool beach
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Beautiful harmonious wedding: wood and tiles
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For its part, the exotic wood is very noble and it provides a warm aesthetic. Its life is also longer. Its great disadvantage is the fact that it is often unecological due to its scarcity.
The wood is natural and with a beautiful aesthetic appearance
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Composite wood is an ecological alternative to exotic wood. It looks like natural wood, but it is made of wood and polymer. Each manufacturer creates a different composition. The composite wood is very strong, aesthetic, with a reduced risk of slipping and at a good price.
Wooden pool surround for a harmonious exterior
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The traditional flooring is probably tiling. Thanks to its easy maintenance and its multitude of colors and patterns, it is often the preferred choice of many people. It is especially important to pay attention to the slipperiness because its surface is hard and can lead to painful falls.
Swimming pool surround in light colored tiles
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Marble is the luxury material par excellence. It will immediately bring a luxurious side to your pool and terrace.
Beautiful elegant minimalist style exterior with designer furniture and marble cladding
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Particularly resistant to bad weather and insects, its only drawbacks are its slipperiness, its cold surface and its price. Its aesthetic is sophisticated, it has a long life.
Indoor pool with flooring and marble walls
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Stone is more and more present in the interior design as well as in the exterior design. Noble material, the stone comes in many variants: slate, basalt, limestone, granite, sandstone and others. It exists in a wide variety of colors and textures to suit all tastes.
Beautiful harmonious exterior with large and small pool and stone cladding and tiling
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For an authentic and natural side, the aesthetics of the stone is ideal. In addition, it is easy to maintain, with a long life and very resistant. When wet, pay attention to slippage! It captures heat without burning feet.
The tiled pool surround is a good long-term choice
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Another material for the pool deck that deserves attention is the decorative concrete. It replaces materials such as stone and briquette. It can imitate stone, tiles and terracotta at once. The risk of slipperiness is reduced. It keeps a long time its freshness and its appearance. Easy to maintain, it still requires the application of a protective resin.
Beautiful pool with two fountains and tiled floor
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Before making your choice, it is important to take into account all the details. If your pool is often exposed to the sun, it is advisable to opt for pastel colors.
Cello-shaped pool with stone flooring
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Avoid dark colors and too light colors that will quickly lose their freshness. It is not recommended to install your pool too close to trees and the garden. You may stain your pool beach.
Exterior cladding for gray stone pool surround
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Choose the flooring for your pool’s surroundings based on its location.
Swimming pool surround in composite resin
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Wood goes with a wide range of materials and styles.
Gray wood pool floor
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Travertino tiles are a frequent choice for exterior cladding.
Travertino tile flooring
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Reconstituted stone is another possible solution.
Reconstructed stone pool flooring
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Wood is the reference material for modern interiors and exteriors.
Brown wood surround and modern hammocks
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For those who want a natural exterior, wood and stone are ideal.
Stone pool surround for a natural and mineral look
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The concrete cladding is very solid and brings a modern side to the outdoors.
Gray concrete flooring
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It is quite possible to create a mixed pool beach. Some materials get married very well together. Such is the case of stone and wood, classic, exotic or composite. These two natural materials were created for each other!
Very elegant and modern exterior with trees
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