What Is a Pool Cabana

A pool cabana is a permanent or temporary covered structure located beside or near a swimming pool. Providing shelter from the sun, privacy to change clothes or a place to hang out and relax, pool cabanas generally have floor-to-ceiling side curtains or solid panels on three sides, with or without windows or screens.

What is the difference between a pool house and a cabana?

Pool houses require full utility hook ups and a building permit with all its requirements and approvals. The term cabana is often used interchangeably, but this is not a pool house. It is a three-sided roofed structure designed to provide shelter and privacy at pool side.

What is considered a cabana?

The Spanish cognate for Cabana defined for the English language in 1898 as a *cabin. From its origins, a Cabana was an indigenous hut, cottage or cabin, offering comfort, protection and privacy by the sea. A tent or curtained bathhouse also came to be called a Cabana.