Great photos! I'd love to see what the water looks like in direct sunlight. Your home, from what little I could see of it, looks nicely upscale. I'm astonished at how much bang you got for you buck. I guess it helped a lot that you did much of the work yourself, huh? Saved yourself a tidy bundle that way.

Wasn't it nice to be able to design your own pool, just the way you want? When my wife and I were looking at the possibility of moving to a larger home that would already have a pool, the homes we looked at all had fairly pedestrian kinds of swimming pools, which would be fine, but it's so much nicer when you can cobble together your own pool design and create something that is uniquely a reflection of your own values, tastes and style. Our home is pretty unremarkable in every possible way, but the pool area now is its key selling feature (not that we're looking to move). A co-worker friend just bought and moved into a nearly new home that during the hey-deys of the real estate market sold for over $1M (he bought it for about half that -- still a huge amount of money). His home outshines my home in every possible way...except one. I like my swimming pool area much better than his. :-)