Following as i have the same question.

Ended up adding top soil up to the top of the coping, making sure its slopes away from the pool. That produces a nice edge.

Any soil (planted with cold climate grasses) edged against a hardscape should always be minimum 1" below the hardscape surface. That places the soil+thatch layer to be at or below the hardscape surface, which allows water to run off freely into the grass crown/blades and prevents pooling and staining of the hardscape surface from soil and debris.

I would do some more hardscaping around the edges so people aren’t getting their wet feet dirty and then getting into the pool. Or going into the house.

Have never seen a pool without some kind of decking around it as part of the original design by pool company. Dirt from direct entry and grass from mowing must make for a lot of pool cleaning.

Yes, where is the plan for surrounding decking ? Is there some reason you planned the pool without it?

For a large portion of one side of my in-ground pool, the sod meets the biuestone coping (soil level is about an inch below the coping top surface). Nice look but as another poster mentioned be careful with the landscape debris on wet feet getting into the pool.

When cutting the lawn along that side I have to bag the clippings. If I didn’t, the pool is filled with grass clippings after a party with kids.

Thanks for those comments. It’s actually not uncommon to have no deck around if the house already has existing hardscaping. This is also a clean look found a lot in the northeast: look at pictures from houses in the Hamptons.

In the end it’s not bad. Yes some debris will fall into the pool when it rains a lot and some grass clippings will fall but it’s nothing that my pool cleaning robots can’t handle.

While the design looks great in a photo, consider the practicality,

Pool users, especially kids going in and out will saturate the grass and then track both grass and eventually mud into the pool.

If you're ok with that aspect and understand the clean-up, then go for it.

I love your pool! We are also doing only coping, no decking. Such a great look. What color is your pool and what coping material did you use?

thanks!

Thanks. Yeah don’t listen to those who will tell you it gets dirty. Without having a pool service company my pool is always spotless. You just need to get the proper equipment to automate the maintenance.

Regarding the color, it is a diamond brite finish custom mix: 80% French grey, 20% onyx.

The coping is bluestone.