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Help! Need advice on what to do with the hardscape around pool.

10 years ago
We are in the process of putting in a pool. They have just layed the brick bullnose around the perimeter. my problem is that I have no idea what I want to put down beside the coping; plain concrete, colored if so what? stamped concrete or pavers?? I'm usually pretty good with these things but the color of the bullnose coping has threw me for a loop. The color is Old Chicago from US Paverscapes.

Comments (13)

  • 10 years ago
    Stamped concrete looks great but is slippery. How about exposed aggregate concrete. You can choose stones that pick up on the colours in the brick.
  • 10 years ago

    i think this looks fine. if you look through a google image search you'll see a lot of pools with contrasting coping.

  • 10 years ago
    I agree with exposed aggregate concrete. I built a pool, and I had brushed concrete and I wish I had done the exposed aggregate. I have friends who have done both stained concrete and stained and stamped concrete. Both are slick and very hot to your feet. The stain gets very hot in the sun. I'm in Mississippi and our sun is brutal though.
  • 10 years ago
    Thank you all! What color do you think would look nice. I was kind if wanting to maybe do a stamp color or pavers around the brick maybe 2 or 3 rows length give or take then maybe regular concrete to fill the rest? we have enough such a large area.
  • 10 years ago

    i'd not like the look of 3 items. i believe it would look rather chopped up. if you feel you'll have too much concrete, then make a utilization map of your pool area, don't just have the cement truck dump his load everywhere.

    we redid our pool deck last fall. the previous owners had one idea of how they used the space, we had a different one. so when it was time to get rid of the aluminum coping (ok, 10 years past time....) we rethought the area, where we wanted to sit in the sun, where we wanted to sit in the shade. the result was we completely changed the extent of the pool deck to maximize two conversation areas (one sun, one shade) and let the landscaping and lawn come closer to the pool on the other end.


  • 10 years ago
    We have concrete coping because of the type of pool we have however we absolutely love the pavers we used for the pool deck. They do not get nearly as hot as concrete and they are not slippery at all even when we have 20+ kids in the pool with the deck completely soaked.
  • 10 years ago

    We are removing relatively new stamped concrete and replacing with pavers. Concrete always cracks.

  • 9 years ago

    Would love to see what you did. I am running into the same situation with old Chicago bricks

  • 9 years ago
    This is what I ended up doing. I will try to get a better photo of the entire area. But we ended up doing plain concrete since the Old Chicago showed hints of the grey. We have a large area so we broke up the muted large concrete area by saw cutting on diagonals to give us large diamond shakes thru out. we also embellished with some dark stamped concrete in areas. It turned out great.
  • 9 years ago

    Love it!!!!!

  • 9 years ago

    Thank you! Just finished framing the pool house so hoping it will be complete by July!!

  • 9 years ago

    Looks great and doggie loves it too, I see!