Too much cement. Less aggregate exposure. Softer, less resistant finish. Scott

We just finished our pool last week. We used StoneScape mini pebble in tahoe blue. We are very pleased with the color it turned out as well as the feel of the stonescape mini - it is very comfortable under foot. Here is a picture of the pool with water. I also have some pics before it was filled I can share as well if you are interested. Kat Here is a link that might be useful: Our Pool

Hi andtrevmommy! I really love our Mauve stonescapes mini. I agonized over that decision (along with many others, but probably most about that one selection) and it's the only decision I have not had any regrets about. We looked at several pools our PB had done with stonescapes including midnight blue, tahoe blue, caribbean blue and the mauve. I was originally leaning towards midnight blue, but when I saw one in person I didn't like the way the stones looked, the blue/red pebbles reminded me of fish tank gravel and my husband felt it produced a bit too dark of a water color for his taste (I still LOVE midnight blue stonescape pools though), tahoe blue then came close to being it but I kept having doubts, the pools we saw with tahoe blue were a little less deep in color and ever so slightly twinged with green. The mauve is kinda crazy, check out my original thread, the plaster process was insane, BARNEY EXPLODED in my pool, but the water color is interesting, different, very pretty in my opinion and many of our visitors have commented on the gorgeous water color. We love it. I will warn you, I'm not a fan of seeing the mauve stonescapes close up at the top of the water, it's pinkish to me on steps, that is why we did the flagstone beach entry and why we placed the steps and bench where we did. Just my 2 cents. I LOVE the mauve! Would do it again in a heartbeat! I'm not in love with the water color after dark with the lights on, it's boring and greenish....I wish we had done the led (?) lights to spice up the color after dark. :)

extremely unhappy with my 'tropics blue' mini pebble finish. $5500 later, my pool is more depressing than anything else. Very different from their advertised images!. If anyone has any ideas about how to proceed here, I would greatly appreciate your help! g.zepeda simi valley, ca