Pool cool
A swimming pool has long been a quintessential part of the Australian outdoor living experience, but today we expect a lot more from our pools. No longer just a place to cool down or somewhere for the kids to play, a pool is the centre of outdoor entertaining. We want to entertain in the pool and by the pool.
“The trend to create more sophisticated poolside entertaining areas has been fuelled by the desire to turn our outdoor spaces into personal oases, somewhere we can escape to, leaving our hectic home and work lives behind,” says John Storch from A Total Concept.
“Elaborate or restrained, the poolside entertaining area is a lifestyle must. All Australians love entertaining outside. In fact, outdoor living is so entrenched in our culture and such an important lifestyle focus that together with a swimming pool, the poolside entertaining area has become a backyard essential, and rightly so.”
THE OUTDOOR ROOM
“The average poolside entertaining area
