How appropriate, that as summer slips farther and farther away our pool gets closer and closer to the finish line? Good thing that sucker is going to be heated! Ha! Oh, well such is life and in all seriousness we are just excited to  have a beautiful, finished back-yard, no matter the season.

Things have come a long way since the big hole you saw  last post. The guys finished up the plumbing/electrical and then the shockcrete was installed which really made things start feeling real.

The shockcrete made it easy to see the all of the details come to life that we had envisioned - things like the tanning deck, the stairs, the bench across the back of the pool, the little columns at the entry to the pool and even the slots where the waterfalls would come through into the pool were easy to spot once this layer was installed.

A few weeks ago the stone work began and it was literally like Christmas morning every time we came home from work to see all of the progress that was made!

As for the selections we went with a gray flagstone, some of which is installed "on face" where you can see the whole rock and some is stacked. For the tile that lines the pool at the water-line we went with a dark gray slate to blend in as seamlessly as possible with the flagstone and the pool. The big decision we had to make was the specific color we wanted for our Pebbletec - which is the surface for the interior walls of the pool aka liner. There are a ton of options for the Pebbletec and it's a pretty important decisions because it determines the color of the water.

Categorize this under the things you don't even know you care about, but once we knew there were options we realized we had opinions on the matter! In the intro post I mentioned we wanted our backyard to have an English garden lagoon vibe, so we knew we wanted to the water to have more green undertones as opposed to aqua. So, we decided to go with Emerald Bay:

Photo from PebbleTec Website

Pebbletec has an app where you can see what color your water will be at specific depths.  Our pool will be 3 1/2'  all the way across (with the exception of the tanning deck) so it was great to see the color we would be seeing.

Photo from Pebbletec Website.

The Pebbletec hasn't been installed yet, but we are excited to see it all come together! Still on the agenda to figure out...the fence. At this point trying to figure out what will look best with a Christmas wreath hanging on it. :)

All photos are my own.