Quick Summary
Selah Pools built a residential pool in Dallas for the Fitzgerald family featuring pool coping, a tanning ledge, pool deck, and entry steps. The project emphasizes architectural consistency across all pool edges and surfaces.
Dallas summers demand an outdoor living space that earns its keep from May through October. The Fitzgerald residence answered that demand with a pool designed around how a family actually moves through its day — from a shallow tanning ledge that catches the morning light to pool steps that invite an unhurried entry. The coping runs the perimeter with the kind of material consistency that separates a built environment from a finished one. Every edge, every surface, every grade transition reflects a design sensibility rooted in the belief that a pool should feel like an extension of the home.
Materials & Finishes
The coping defines this project as much as the water does. It wraps the pool with a precision that reads as architectural rather than incidental. The pool deck extends the living surface outward, creating the kind of ground plane that makes outdoor furniture feel placed, not parked.
Design & Features
A tanning ledge occupies the shallowest zone with enough presence to function as a destination on its own — part lounge, part transition point, part reason to stay outside longer than planned. The pool steps complete the sequence, descending into the water with a geometry that feels considered. Together, these elements build an outdoor environment where the craftsmanship is visible and the experience is the point.
Project Highlights
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Frequently Asked Questions
What makes pool coping more than a finishing detail?
Coping caps the pool shell and defines the transition between water and deck. Done well, it anchors the entire visual composition — done poorly, it undermines an otherwise strong design. At the Fitzgerald residence in Dallas, the coping runs the full perimeter with a consistency that gives the pool its architectural character. Selah approaches coping as a design decision, not a material specification. The profile, texture, and color work together with the deck surface and pool interior to create a coherent environment. The result is a pool that reads as designed rather than installed — a distinction that matters most in the years after construction.
How does a tanning ledge change how a pool gets used?
A tanning ledge occupies the shallowest zone of the pool, creating a space where adults can lounge in the water without swimming and children can play safely. It shifts how an outdoor living space functions: the pool stops being something you get in and out of, and becomes a place you stay. At the Fitzgerald residence, the tanning ledge is central to the overall design, functioning as a transition zone between the deck and the deeper pool. Selah integrates tanning ledges into the pool shell during construction — they are not add-ons but architectural features planned from the first design session.
What should Dallas homeowners consider for a pool deck?
Dallas summers are long and intense. Surface temperatures on an unshaded pool deck can exceed air temperature by midday, which means material selection is both an aesthetic and comfort decision. Lighter-toned surfaces reflect heat, and textured finishes provide traction when wet. The deck must also manage expansion and contraction from DFW temperature swings between seasons. At the Fitzgerald residence, the pool deck creates an extended outdoor living surface that reads as continuous with the pool rather than adjacent to it. The scale and material choice work together to make the space feel generous without feeling exposed.
Can pool entry steps serve a design purpose beyond safety?
Pool steps are often treated as a code requirement rather than a design opportunity, but their placement, width, and profile shape how the pool is experienced from the first moment of entry. Wide, gradual steps invite a slower transition into the water. Steps positioned in a corner versus across a full end create different spatial relationships between pool and deck. At the Fitzgerald residence, the pool steps descend with a geometry that feels intentional. They contribute to the overall composition and connect the deck surface to the water in a way that reinforces the considered quality of the whole environment.
How does Selah approach a pool project on a compact lot?
Dallas lots vary from generous suburban parcels to compact urban sites where every square foot of the outdoor living space carries real design pressure. Selah's discipline in constrained conditions begins with how the space will be lived in, not with what fits inside the property lines. Scale, proportion, and material choice do more work on a smaller lot, because there is less room to recover from a decision that does not serve the composition. The Fitzgerald residence reflects that discipline — coping, deck, tanning ledge, and steps form a coherent system rather than a collection of features. That coherence is the product of design-first thinking applied before construction begins.
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