A pool designed as a room in its own right

The project occupies a dedicated wellness room, lit by a row of high windows. The pool stretches the full length of the room, with the wooden sauna at the far end. Dark walls and indirect ceiling lighting give the water’s glow centre stage.

Indoors, the stainless steel shell offers a decisive advantage: it arrives finished, with no render or coating to apply and dry on site. Work inside the home is shorter and cleaner.

A shell semi-recessed into a wooden deck

The pool is not fully sunk into the ground. Its stainless steel coping sits slightly above the wooden deck, with a step providing access. This approach limits excavation work in an existing home and keeps the services easily accessible.

The coping is welded and finished at the corners: no joints, no add-on pieces, just a clean line running all the way around the pool.

Stainless steel water blade and skimmer

A stainless steel water blade is set directly on the wooden deck. Its perforated cover conceals the nozzle, while the sheet of water flowing into the pool brings the sound of water into the entire room.

Filtration is handled by a skimmer integrated into the wall, also made of stainless steel and fitted with a matching perforated cover. In an indoor pool, the air matters as much as the water: our guide to indoor pools, dehumidification and air treatment explores the available solutions.

An accessible shell for easy maintenance

Below the deck, the outer wall of the shell is fitted with stainless steel access panels. They provide access to the fittings and connections without having to dismantle anything. This accessibility is one of the advantages of a 316L stainless steel pool designed in our workshop: the pipework is planned alongside the structure from the outset.

Lighting as the defining feature of the space

LED spotlights recessed into the walls bathe the pool in blue light. The texture of the stainless steel floor catches the light and creates a pattern that changes with the movement of the water. Recessed spotlights in the wooden deck and at the base of the walls complete the effect.

The result

The pool, sauna and wooden deck form a coherent whole, with stainless steel tying every element together. For other compact projects, see the TINY rooftop mini pool in Antibes and our guide to basement pools.