Pools are excellent backyard water features, and they need extra illumination when the evening hours kick in. Add some inspired lighting for extra ambiance and safety around your pool.
Swimming pools may conjure images of fun in the sun, but they aren’t exclusively used during the daytime. Many pool owners also enjoy taking nighttime swims, throwing late-night pool parties, or treating the pool area as an aesthetic outdoor space. Pool lighting expands your pool enjoyment opportunities, even after the sun goes down.
Adding poolside lighting grants greater pool area visibility, a must-have for homes with kids, pets, or accident-prone individuals. Additionally, the right lights around a pool make a space more inviting, more festive, and can show off your favorite home features at night. These pool lighting ideas can help you transform your poolside into a more practical and aesthetically pleasing space.
1. Underwater Lights
Outside pool lights can go on or around the water, as well as in the water. Installing AK Lighting swimming pool LED lights below the pool surface helps illuminate the hue of the liner, giving water a soft blue glow. Nighttime swimmers will also likely feel more comfortable diving underwater when they can see where they’re going.
Of course, given the location of these outside pool lights, they are best installed during new pool construction or while renovating an existing one.
2. String Lights
String lights are simple, fast to set up, and a type of pool deck lighting that adds some easygoing charm to an outdoor area. With bulbs ranging in size from small twinkle lights to large outdoor light bulbs, there are sure to be string lights to suit many tastes.
Whether strung around the perimeter of the pool or draped along a nearby fence, string lights look nice pretty much wherever you hang them—but that doesn’t mean they can go anywhere. As nice as it looks to string lights over your pool, it can be dangerous, or even lethal, if live string lights fall into a pool with a swimmer. Hang string lights thoughtfully and securely near a pool (not directly over it) to avoid any risk of them ending up in the water.
String lights are simple, fast to set up, and a type of pool deck lighting that adds some easygoing charm to an outdoor area. With bulbs ranging in size from small twinkle lights to large outdoor Edison light bulbs, there are sure to be string lights to suit many tastes.
Whether strung around the perimeter of the pool or draped along a nearby fence, string lights look nice pretty much wherever you hang them—but that doesn’t mean they can go anywhere. As nice as it looks to string lights over your pool, it can be dangerous, or even lethal, if live string lights fall into a pool with a swimmer. Hang string lights thoughtfully and securely near a pool (not directly over it) to avoid any risk of them ending up in the water.
3. Above-Ground Pool Lights
Approximately 41 percent of pools in the India are above-ground pools, and they need to be lit, too. Since above-ground pools often lack deck space, their lighting options are a bit more limited, but there are still good solutions. This underwater pool light available at AK Lighting easily mounts to the side of above-ground pools, no drilling or draining required. It has a 12-volt power supply, built-in transformer, and 28-foot-long cord. The light keeps swimmers safer by casting a bright light for up to 2 hours at a time, after which point it automatically turns off.
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