Installing a swimming pool in your backyard is an excellent idea. This gives you and your family easy access to a pool and it provides fun for your children all summer long. When you hire a pool contractor, they will work with you to create the pool of your dreams. If you would like to have a more natural looking pool, with natural features added in, they can help you with this. Here are three excellent features that make your swimming pool look more natural. 

A Waterfall 

One feature that both allows your pool to look more natural and provides you with a lot of fun is a waterfall. Your pool contractor can create a waterfall from stones that make it look like a waterfall out in nature. You can even have a small cavern behind the waterfall, which is also created out of a mixture of cement and stone. This is a great place for your family to hangout and makes your pool even more fun. 

Plant Life

Another way to create a natural swimming pool is to incorporate plant life around and in the pool. You can talk with your pool contractor to ensure that the plants in your pool are given what they need to survive. This often requires that you have a salt water pool so that your plants have everything that they need to survive. The proper soil will also need to surround your pool to support the plant life that you have around the perimeter. You pool contractor can also help you pick out the proper plants, which is very important in terms of making sure that they survive.

Wooden Deck

A wooden deck that leads out into the water looks much more reminiscent of a pond or lake than a pool, and is a great natural option to choose instead of a diving board. Your pool contractor can work to create a very strong and sturdy deck that you can sit on, lay on, jump of off, etc. This deck will likely be made entirely out of wood and will have legs that extend into the base of the pool to give it full structural support. You can also add railings to either side of the deck if you'd like. 

By adding a waterfall, plant life, and a wooden deck to your pool design, you help to give it a very natural look. Contact a company, like Pacific AquaScapes, for more help.