Swimming Pool Fences: 10 Ideas for Safety & Style at Water's Edge - Gardenista
A fence is an important safety feature if you have a swimming pool; you don’t want anyone drowning.
Wooden Fences
Photograph by Jessica Sample, courtesy of Simo Design.
A well-placed tree has room to breathe without encroaching on the roof of a house in Beverly Hills. Horizontal wooden slats allow air and light to circulate, making a swimming pool deck feel spacious.
Photograph by Jessica Sample, courtesy of Simo Design.
During a recent remodel, the swimming pool got a facelift. To complement the color of an existing brick patio courtyard, a formerly white pool was replastered in a new dark gray shade.
For more of this project, see <a href="https://www.gardenista.com/posts/swimming-pool-of-the-week-beautiful-views-in-the-berkshires/">Swimming Pool of the Week: Beautiful Views in the Berkshires</a>.
Photograph by Michael Moran, courtesy of O’Neill Rose Architects.
Pasture Fences
Photograph by John Porcheddu, courtesy of Khanna Schultz.
Limestone Fences
Hardy native perennial plantings help soften the required pool fence, here of limestone, and add some interest to the view from the main house at <a href="https://www.gardenista.com/posts/outbuilding-of-the-week-long-island-summer-a-solar-powered-pool-pavilion-in-water-mill/">A Modern Pool Pavilion in Water Mill</a>.
Photograph by Matthew Williams.
See more of this pool at Swimming Pool of the Week: Dreaming in Blue at a Stylist’s Hamptons Compound. A rustic split rail fence encloses a swimming pool, making it feel like a distant destination.
Split Rail Fences
Corten steel fence panels seem to float but actually are fixed to a concrete footing, hidden by plantings of native perennial tussock grass (Poa labillardierei).
Photograph courtesy of Nicholas Bray.
Corten Steel Fences
Photograph courtesy of MCK Architects.
A concrete block wall provides poolside privacy without blocking panoramic views from a house by Sydney-based <a href="https://www.mckarchitects.com/site/projects/show/61/FLIPPED-HOUSE/">MCK Architects</a>.
Concrete Block Barriers
Brick Walls
Photograph courtesy of Light Locations.
The contrast of old brick against a silvery modern wooden deck creates a peaceful atmosphere surrounding a swimming pool in Winchester, England.
A cedar post fence visible behind a limestone wall is “mainly to keep deer and coyotes out of the area,” says Austin, Texas–based landscape architect Tait Moring.
Coyote Fences
<a href="https://www.gardenista.com/submission/2017/rustic-canyon-residence/">Studio Shamshiri</a> designed and installed a custom wooden fence to highlight a sculptural tree and provide privacy around a swimming pool at a midcentury house in Los Angeles.
Photograph by Shade Degges.
Tree Cutout Fences
In costume designer Gordana Golubovic’s luxe, secluded LA backyard, a poured-concrete wall supports a vertical-slat wooden fence.
Photograph by Lauren Moore.
Poured Concrete Walls
“One of the best ways to create durable and versatile hardscape elements is with poured-in-place concrete,” <a href="https://www.gardenista.com/posts/hardscaping-101-poured-in-place-concrete/">writes</a> our contributor Kier Holmes.