Sloped/Beach entry

[p.p.h.]

We have a beach entry that is actually more of a large slope and are thinking of doing 2 separate colors (shadow blue and arizona gold) for the pebble interior.

Our dilema is that we have been told by our interior company that a line of tile must separate the two colors in order to prevent bleeding. We did not want tile and now face whether or not to tile the entire pool or just the dividing line. We have a brick red flagstone coping with a gray deck and are at a loss of what color tile if any to go with.

What would you do???

us 3

I would choose one color of pebbletec to go with instead of doing 2. separating it with tiles would look un-natural to me. Go all arizona gold.

[JohnInSoCal]

I have seen it done without tile to seperate the two colors and it looked fine however it was on a shelf where a sandy beach color was used on the beach entry and then when it transitioned into a baja shelf the rest of the pool was in tahoe blue. This looked fine. We also considered doing the same thing with our beach entry/shelf and the pebble company could do it but they would have charged an extra $600 to do it. In the end we just decided against it and went with one color.

So technically it's possible however if your applicator is uncomfortable doing it or has never done it before then I would definately pass on having them give a try on your new pool.

[South_Texas_Sun]

Have you considered doing the beach area in flagstone like your coping? We're currently building a pool too, and the slanted beach/entry is paved with flagstones (or should be by the end of today) and there's another shallow "beach" area (for lounge chairs so that you don't have to sit on a slant) underneath the spa waterfall that is also going to be done in flagstone.

I haven't figured out how to post pictures here yet, but I have a couple of pictures of pools with this exact set of features and it looks GORGEOUS!

We also went to see a pool that had this type of finish and it's just as beautiful in person as in the pictures.

Just another variable to muck things up.

P.s. About your tile....we found a rock tile design that *appears* to be shapes of stone, but is really just sold in strips for accent decoration. It doesn't sound like it would offset the coping color enough to be effective, but seen in person, "works" better than traditional square waterline-type tiling. I either have to learn to post pictures or take a creative writing class......lol