Quick Summary
Selah Pools built a pool and custom spa for the Williams family in Irving, TX featuring Pebble Technology Blue Mist interior, Ashlar stone tile, Newport Blue tile, bone straight coping, Crown Deck and Blue Random stone decking, and a water feature.
Key Takeaways
- The Williams family in Irving chose Selah Pools to design a complete outdoor environment anchored by a pool and integrated custom spa.
- The project includes a pool, custom spa, water feature, dedicated lighting for both vessels, dual skimmers, and a pool cleaner port.
- Pebble Technology Blue Mist interior, Ashlar stone tile, Newport Blue tile, and bone straight coping define a refined, cohesive material palette.
- Crown Deck and Blue Random stone deck surfaces extend the warm tone of the coping outward, unifying water and hardscape into one composition.
Irving sits at the geographic heart of DFW — equal parts suburban calm and urban proximity — and the Williams residence captures that balance precisely. The design brief was quiet confidence: a pool and custom spa that read as a single composition rather than separate elements, anchored by materials chosen for longevity as much as beauty. Blue Mist pebble interior gives the water a depth that shifts from soft aquamarine at midday to dusk-gray in the evening hours. A water feature returns movement and sound to the space, breaking the stillness in the best possible way. Bone-toned coping grounds the perimeter with warmth, keeping the composition from reading cold.
Concrete & Stone
The interior finish is Pebble Technology's Blue Mist — a surface chosen for its ability to hold color at every light condition, from the hard noon sun of a Dallas County summer to the long shadows of a winter afternoon. Ashlar stone tile lines the waterline of both the pool and custom spa, its natural variation absorbing and reflecting light in equal measure. Newport Blue tile punctuates the pool with a chromatic note that sharpens the Blue Mist below.
Lighting & Water Feature
Underfoot, Crown Deck and Blue Random stone surfaces carry the warm tone of the bone coping outward across the deck, tying the water to the land. Light gray concrete fills the transitions quietly — workmanlike, invisible, essential.
Project Highlights
The Williams family in Irving chose Selah Pools to design a complete outdoor environment anchored by a pool and integrated custom spa.
The project includes a pool, custom spa, water feature, dedicated lighting for both vessels, dual skimmers, and a pool cleaner port.
Pebble Technology Blue Mist interior, Ashlar stone tile, Newport Blue tile, and bone straight coping define a refined, cohesive material palette.
Crown Deck and Blue Random stone deck surfaces extend the warm tone of the coping outward, unifying water and hardscape into one composition.
What Our Customers Say
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does a water feature change the pool experience?
A water feature gives the space a voice. The sound of moving water shifts the mood of an outdoor living space from static to alive, masking ambient noise and creating a sense of enclosure. At the Williams residence in Irving, the water feature was integrated directly into the plumbing return design, functioning as part of the pool's circulation system rather than as an afterthought. The result is a pool that feels different at every hour — catching early light in the morning, breaking the water's surface tension, and becoming a focal point by evening.
Why choose Pebble Technology over a standard plaster finish?
Standard plaster finishes deliver a clean look at installation and begin showing their age within a few years. Pebble Technology's aggregate surfaces — like the Blue Mist chosen for the Williams residence — are designed to hold their character across decades. The exposed pebble aggregate is harder, more chemically resistant, and forgiving of the water chemistry fluctuations that come with heavy family use and Dallas County's temperature swings. Blue Mist creates a water color that reads differently depending on the hour — a cool aquamarine in direct sun, something deeper and quieter in shade.
What should Irving homeowners consider when selecting deck materials?
Irving's position in the heart of DFW means outdoor surfaces absorb intense summer heat — surface temperature and slip resistance matter as much as aesthetics. Natural stone handles thermal load better than many synthetic alternatives and ages into the landscape rather than against it. The Williams project used Crown Deck and Blue Random stone surfaces alongside light gray concrete, a combination that manages heat absorption while delivering the tonal warmth the design required. The material transitions draw the eye outward from the pool edge, making the outdoor living space feel larger than its footprint.
Can a pool and spa share the same finish and look unified?
They can, and at Selah, they almost always do. The Williams residence is a clear example — Blue Mist pebble interior and Ashlar stone tile were specified for both the pool and the custom spa, and bone straight coping runs on both perimeters. When the same material language crosses both vessels, the eye reads them as a single composition rather than a primary pool with a secondary element attached. This cohesion requires planning from the earliest design stages. Finish selections, coping profiles, and tile choices must be decided together — the result is an outdoor living space that feels resolved and calm.
How does Selah approach lighting for a pool and spa?
Each body of water needs independent treatment — brightness, angle, and color temperature all behave differently in a spa than in a larger pool, because volume, depth, and use patterns differ. For the Williams project, dedicated lighting was specified in construction plans for both the pool and the custom spa, ensuring each vessel reads clearly and beautifully after dark. The practical benefit matches the aesthetic one: a lit spa is a safer spa, with entry and exit easier to navigate when depth is visible. For a family using the space across seasons and into evening hours, that's a design fundamental.
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