end of the beginning - not yet beginning of the end

Friday was the first day folks started to actually work INSIDE the pool.

Stage one is the tile.

We are tiling the "waterfall" area and the border between the deck level and the water level itself with a 4X4 inch tile called "African blue".... it should look nice "wet" - we are hoping for a slate look.... thin the showers in a W hotel.

Our initial reaction on seeing the tiles was that these were darker than we remembered when picking them out in the showroom - but we still think it should look good with the very light blue color of the pool finish itself.

The dark circle you see under the ledge is actually one of three underwater lights that we are installing. ... two under the waterfall - and another on the front corner of the shell.

I remember pool lights as waterproof spotlights.... this is another area where the technology has changed. These lights are more decorative - with the ability to program different colors and vary those colors in real time.