Taking care of your backyard swimming pool entails more than just maintaining the correct balance of chemicals in the water and finding the ideal water temperature. It also means designing a pleasing space where you, family, and friends can gather together and relax. The best way to achieve this is by selecting pool furniture that is not only comfortable, but attractive and built to last.
Pool furniture suffers a good deal of abuse during a season. Standing water, wet bodies, wet towels, residue from sun tanning products, and harsh weather are hard on standard variety furniture. Because of this, cheap, flimsy furniture for the pool is not the best choice. The kind of pool furniture that can be found at your local big box department store or home improvement warehouse is often affordably priced, but it is also typically constructed poorly, not particularly comfortable or attractive, and lasts only two or three seasons before needing to be replaced. More and more, homeowners are choosing to upgrade to a better quality of furniture because of its long life, good looks, and real comfort.
One of the most favored substances used to make high quality pool furniture today is resin, and two of the most popular types of resin furniture are molded resin and resin wicker. The molded resin furniture described here is not the same as you would find in the local discount store. Top quality molded resin furniture, unlike the cheaper variety, is manufactured using a special mineral-reinforced polypropylene resin. This exceptional synthetic material absorbs heat from the sun and resists fading, cracking, and yellowing. It is also impervious to weather conditions because it expands and contracts with the temperature.
Similarly, the resin found in high quality resin wicker pool furniture is just as strong and resistant to harsh weather. The only real difference between molded resin furniture and resin wicker furniture is in their appearance. Molded resin furniture brings a more relaxed look and feel to the pool side. It is most often white with smooth surfaces and clean, simple lines, and it can be used comfortably with or without outdoor seat and back cushions. Resin wicker, alternatively, brings a more plush and formal look and feel to the pool area. Available colors include rich and dramatic browns and blacks, but one can easily find white resin wicker pool furniture as well. Seat cushions made with stylish and weather resistant fabrics are the norm with resin wicker furniture.
In general, high quality molded resin and resin wicker pool furniture have a number of benefits over pool furniture made from other materials. They are both good-looking, rugged, able to survive all sorts of pool side abuses, and easy to clean and maintain. It is easy to see the value of high quality furniture for the pool when compared to its cheaper, flimsier, and remarkably shorter-lived competition.
