Here is a link to the progress. Here is a link that might be useful: View the Pool Build

Tresw, thanks for the compliments. We absolutely LOVE the way the pool has come out. We now also have our SWG hooked up and I already love it, I was going through a lot of bleach to keep the chlorine levels up. I finally just turned the bubblers off to send more flow to the waterfall. If I hold my hand over two of the bubblers, the 3rd one will break the surface, but we really don't miss having them at all. They were a free add-on anyways for us. Womanowned, I passed your compliments onto our builder, thanks! A few comments about color. I now understand better why folks have trouble describing, and picking, colors, because it is a very dynamic thing. The color seems to change constantly with the lighting conditions. But we absolutely LOVE the Blue Granite. The majority of the time, the color is kind of an aqua-marine blue that is really neat. I can't say however that there aren't times where I can detect a touch of green (just a hint) if the clouds and sun are right. Other times it looks almost icy blue. It really changes a lot, but it looks very natural with what we have around the pool. The green you see in the fill photos above is all due to having green fill water (yum!). Within days of having chemicals and filtering, all of that green was gone. We saw several Aqua Blue pools, and they really did look wildly BLUE, and in the end with our natural looking pool, we felt teh blue granite was better, and we are very happy with it. As far as the Abalone shells, yes we did add them, and it was money WELL spent. They are really, really cool looking, especially when the sun is shining directly on the water. They look like diamonds on the floor. VERY cool effect. I just started building the shade structure, I'll some pictures as I go, but so far so good.

hi there...i am having the same tile installed in my pool and while trying to find a pool color i happened to have found your site. Your pool tile looks beautiful!! Choosing a pool color is confusing and becoming a nightmare!! We are going with diamondbrite also and i was wondering if you are still happy with the oyster quartz. I would like a more blue sky blue look but i cannot tell from any brochures or online pics what the color of the water will look like. I don't want the water to clash with the tile as i have already experienced that with my old tile and water. Any help that you could give would be appreciated as i have to choose a color within the next few days. Thanks in advance!!!

So sorry I have been MIA and didn't post finished pics yet. We found at a few weeks ago that we are expecting a baby (our first!!!) and I started a new job, so I have been a little distracted! Somehow, the pool being done was the least exciting thing that happened that week :-) The pool started filling with water on Oct 1st (3 weeks and 1 day from the dig) and we were swimming on Oct 3rd! I will try to post pictures this weekend (I promise!). Gardenlady: We have had zero problems with Brad and are very satisfied with how quickly things were done. He was always available via cell phone and we always dealt directly with him. I am very happy we chose him to build our pool. No complaints!