Pool patio

While Chris was home (he's gone now) we got a few things knocked off our home improvement list. One thing was finally getting some things planted in our flower beds.
The other thing was building a patio next to our pool. When the pool was first installed it came with 3 feet of concrete all the way around. We knew then that it wouldn't be big enough to put chairs and things on so we had it increased to 6 feet around one side. Well, we quickly found out that 6 feet isn't much room to put chairs and still walk around it comfortably. We'd talked about adding a patio for awhile but just now got to it. Chris was here when we hired a contractor and designed the patio. He was even here for the start of construction. But, he missed the finished product which was just completed today. We knew we wanted lights out there because even with the deck lights on it's really dark to use the pool at night. (The little lights in the water just don't cut it either.) We originally talked about adding a fireplace but in the end we went with a fire pit instead.




Almost as an afterthought we added the sidewalk from the deck to the pool. I'm so glad we did because we've got lots of stickers in the yard and this way we don't have to drag shoes out there to swim.
I love how it turned out and can't wait to use it. It's too bad that Chris will be gone for most of the summer because I can not wait to have a big party out there! Sorry honey!