Swim Club

This spectacular Athens, Georgia pool house features design by Atlanta-based designer Bill Musso.

This Athens, Georgia pool house was designed with sustainability and green features in mind. The surrounding landscape uses only plants and wildflowers that are native to Georgia’s red clay, “to stay natural and not feel formal and overly planned,” Bill Musso adds.

As with every aspect of this pool house, this courtyard is green-centric. “This is a green, sustainable space that makes use of recycled, reclaimed and environmentally-friendly materials in just about every element,” says designer Bill Musso, “and we wanted materials that would be as durable and long-lasting and low-maintenance as possible, so features wouldn’t have to be thrown away and replaced every few years.”

Resin-coated, leisure furniture from the venerable Brown Jordan company is guaranteed for life – “we were thinking long-term on every detail,” designer Bill Musso says — while the chairs with white pillows are from the Kolo Collection in Atlanta. In keeping with the mission of sustainability and the celebration of water in this space, downpours are channeled into a rain chain system which feeds into a French drain and then collects in a cistern, to be recycled for irrigation.