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Ask your builder for pictures of your favorite pool finish at different times of day to truly get a feel for how it will look in your backyard. This photo was taking during the early morning. Click right to see this same pool under direct sunlight.
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Direct sunlight brings out the vibrancy and dimension of your pool finish. Click left to see this same pool during the early morning. Remember to ask your pool builder for pictures of your favorite pool finish during different times of day.
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Two copper fire bowls cascade into the mesmerizing blue waters below, created using QuartzScapes Tahoe Blue pool finish. This bond beam wall design incorporates Jules Rustic Blue Blend pool tile and complementary ledger stone for an eye-catching appearance.
Medium Blue
This inviting Florida pool utilizes contrasting elements; the light-colored coping and dark NPT Seven Seas Mediterranean Blue 6" x 6" tile around the spa and waterline create a bold perimeter around the blue StoneScapes Aqua Cool Mini Pebble pool interior.
Medium Blue
When fortune favors you with a view this captivating, a vanishing edge pool is the only way to go. Note how the boundary lines fade where the StoneScapes Aqua Cool Mini pool finish, trimmed in a band of Jules Rustic Blue Blend tile, meets the elevated lakefront view.
Medium Blue
Design details such as NPT Lightwaves Aquamarine 2x2 pool tile on the raised spa and an in-pool cafe table heighten the luxury and glamour of this poolscape. NPT StoneScapes Aqua White pool finish gives the pool its modern bright blue water color.
Light Blue
Match your pool water to the color of a sparkling afternoon sky with QuartzScapes Reflections Barbados Blue. Crisp, electric blue emanates from every corner of this sapphire quartz pool finish. Quartz' durability and smooth surface make it an excellent option for enduring beauty.
Add pizazz to your poolscape with the bold colors and sparkling properties of NPT's Puerto Rico Blend luxury pool finishes. This StoneScapes Puerto Rico Blend Large Black pool finish produces deep dark green pool water, creating an intriguing escape that resembles a forest lake.
StoneScapes Puerto Rico Blend Small Black pool finish is a mesmerizing product that produces deep dark green pool water. Ideal for those looking to add drama and depth to their poolscape, this finish also includes iridescent beads for additional reflectivity and pleasant texture.
Fall in love with the stunning QuartzScapes pool finish series, shown here in Blue. This one-of-a-kind product contains quartz and reflective crystals, transforming your poolscape into a sparkling environment. Available in 28 colors, there is a QuartzScapes pool finish for everyone.
Looking for the perfect finish for a swimming pool with a tan beach? QuartzScapes Cappuccino may be the ideal product for you. Brown and black crushed quartz with touches of red top a tan cement base, creating dimensional green pool water that resembles an outdoor watering hole.
Beautifully shaped Grecian-style poolscape finished using NPT StoneScapes Caribbean Blue Mini Pebbles. Lounge poolside in the fabulous woven outdoor loveseat or hammock, or beat friends in a game of HORSE with a portable basketball goal. There is no shortage of fun in the sun with this pool design.
Can't decide between green or blue pool water? If you love both of these options, consider ColorScapes Cayman Green Blue pool finish. Bright blue and turquoise quartz crystals combine the beauty of both colors in one exquisite finish, energizing your poolscape with riveting hues and soothing texture.
Vibrant and energetic, NPT ColorScapes Cayman Green Blue pool finish enhances your backyard with colorful beauty. The pool finish compliments this modern infinity edge pool design with inset spa - a truly breathtaking marriage of perfect design and premium products.
When you want to keep the focus on a million-dollar view, chose a pool finish that blends seamlessly with the landscape. The swimming pool design for this mountain-top home uses deep blue QuartzScapes Curacao Night pool finish for an end result that complements the stunning horizon rather than competing with it.
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Catch an unforgettable sunset from the swim-up bar or the raised spa in this free-form pool finished in our QuartzScapes Curacao Night. Accent boulders, natural tile finishes (Aztec Cobalt), and a vanishing edge give a carved-from-stone appearance.
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This mountain-side stunner features a vanishing infinity edge, raised spa, and swim-up bar accented in StoneScapes Aztec tile in Cobalt. The deep blue tones of QuartzScapes Curacao Night create the perfect reflecting pool for sunny days and golden sunsets.
Dark Blue
For water that looks primarily blue, select a finish with white, blue or gray pigment like this beautiful QuartzScapes French Gray pool finish. Gray cement and quartz produce a gray-blue water color that dazzles and delights, defining sophistication and elegance.
Light Gray
A freeform pool can curve to fit around buildings, property lines, and landscaping, ensuring maximum pool size for the allotted area. Dress it up with a premium interior finish, like StoneScapes French Gray Puerto Rico Blend, for the texture and shimmer of a pebble-filled beach right in your own backyard.
Light Gray
An exclusive blend of iridescent glass beads give the StoneScapes Puerto Rico Blend superior sparkle and color quality. Pictured here is French Gray Large, a charming pool finish that produces light gray pool water with a dazzling glimmering appearance.
Light Gray
This beautiful oasis has built in bar stools with a fire feature on one side and a waterfall on the other. Project features NPT StoneScapes French Gray Mini Pebble pool finish, NPT Fusion Pinwheel pool tile, Sandstone coping and decking and a stacked stone waterfall feature.
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Gray tones are dominant in this QuartzScapes pool finish, but its beautiful blue quartz crystals define its bold, rich blue-gray pool water color resembling a Caribbean bay. You'll marvel at the dazzling glimmer of endlessly smooth QuartzScapes Caribbean Grenadine Gray pool finish.
This cloistered California courtyard ensures homeowner privacy while highlighting the majestic mountain horizon. An expansive wall-to-wall, multi-level poolscape offers a great spot for breathtaking views, whether lounging on the sun shelf, enjoying the all-tile slide, or relaxing in one of two raised spas. Crystal blue waters are courtesy of StoneScapes Irish Mist pool finish with abalone shell accent. To locate an NPT Design Center near you, call 1-888-476-7665.
Your picture-perfect location deserves a stunning poolscape to match. This Palm Springs homeowner turned a spacious courtyard, with its aspirational mountain backdrop, into a dramatic desert oasis. Multiple, interconnected pools allow for a number of water-based features ñ including a sun deck with shade umbrella, a swim-up bar, and a pair of raised spas.
Do you have an idea in mind for a water feature, but haven't quite found what you are looking for? Consider working with your builder on a custom solution, like this fabulous raised bond beam wall with an interior fountain design. NPT QuartzScapes Midnight Blue promotes a high-end appearance.
Bring your favorite swim spot home with you with the QuartzScapes Reflections Midnight Blue quartz pool finish. Transform your poolscape into a backyard ocean so you can swim and explore endlessly. Quartz gives this product its smooth surface.
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StoneScapes Midnight Blue Mini Pebbles pool finish is an outstanding choice for creating a mysterious and alluring poolscape. The product's dynamic properties, from its Dark Blue base to its colorful glass beads, transform its appearance depending on sunlight, time of day, water depth and other factors. In addition to beauty, mini pebbles add a soothing texture to the bottom of your pool.
To achieve light blue pool water in your backyard, consider a predominantly white pool finish. StoneScapes Regular Pebbles Salt & Pepper is made up of a range of neutral earth tones from gray and white to black and brown, giving your pool water the crisp and refreshing light blue color you desire.
Here's an interesting twist on the classic rectangle shape; this pool has an extra section added for the steps and an extended ledge. The addition of plants around the pool and the cool blue NPT StoneScapes Salt and Pepper finish make this pool area extra enticing!
Venture to lands where golden sand meets crisp clear water with the stunning StoneScapes Puerto Rico Blend Large Sand pool finish. The product's signature golden color produces light green pool water, its beauty amplified by shimmering iridescent glass beads.
Light Green
This beautiful Grecian-style pool uses a classically elegant color palette to deliver a luxurious backyard retreat. NPT StoneScapes Puerto Rico Blend Large Sand pool finish provides the supple green water and beige tanning ledge, enhanced by natural stone coping and decking. Neutral earth-toned NPT Catania Sand pool tile decorates the waterline.
Light Green
There are so many awe-inspiring elements to this pool design. From the infinity edge and tanning ledge to raised spa and bubbler shelf, this luxurious poolscape has it all. QuartzScapes Reflections Super Blue pool finish gives the pool its beautiful light blue water color.
Sheer Descent Cascades create beautiful water effects and a variable amount of motion from silent and serene to rushing waterfalls. This cascade pair accents the 4ft raised wall and matches the spa overflow. The added movement helps the NPT StoneScapes Tahoe Blue Touch of Glass Puerto Rico Blend to glisten in the sun.
Bird's eye view showcases this beautiful winding freeform pool with sand beach, making this the perfect place for a backyard vacation. NPT JewelScapes Opal Puerto Rico Blend Tahoe Blue pool finish provides the stunning medium blue water color.
Medium Blue
Rolling hills and an expansive desert landscape make the perfect backdrop for this stylish freeform pool. Imagine gazing out at the views from this attached raised spa. This pool gains its calming medium blue water color from NPT StoneScapes Tahoe Blue Mini Pebbles pool finish, enhanced with quartzite coping.
Adding a water feature like this L-shaped pool's raised bond beam with scuppers promotes relaxation. NPT StoneScapes Puerto Rico Blend Large Tropics Blue pool finish creates a dreamy interior surface while Oceanscapes Blackies Interlocking pool tile defines the waterline.
JewelScapes Classic Windsurfer's brilliant aqua color transforms your poolscape into a contemporary backyard escape that dazzles like a rare gem. The turquoise hue of this glass bead pool finish emits beauty and energy while its soothing texture massages feet, transporting you to a Pacific beach.
Beautiful freeform poolscape featuring a raised stone spa with a natural rock spillover and a natural rock raised bond beam wall. Repeating your selection of materials in multiple areas creates design harmony. This StoneScapes Aqua Blue pool finish creates the sparkling medium-blue pool water.
Sparkling StoneScapes Aqua White Puerto Rico Blend pool finish creates the bright blue water color seen here. Lightwaves Blue 2x2 tile highlights the two spillover sides and visually connects the raised spa to the poolscape. A tanning ledge with umbrella promotes relaxation and fun.
Light Blue
Pool finish, tile, water features and environment come together in perfect harmony in this opulent azure poolscape. StoneScapes Aqua Blue Mini Pebble creates the vibrant turquoise water color, enhanced by the green-blue tones in the Verona Borba Turquoise waterline tile. The copper fire bowls form the connection between materials and environment.
Medium Blue
Equinox Black Steel 1x2 pool tile transforms this raised spa into an opulent, shimmering mosaic. Dark blue, turquoise and iridescent tiles alternate between textured and shiny exteriors for a dynamic appearance. Due to its multicolored nature, this pool tile suits most pool finishes like StoneScapes White seen here.
Light Blue
Imagine relaxing in the cool blue water of this Florida freeform pool, created using NPT's JewelScapes Classic Marina Blue pool finish. The contrast of the neutral travertine coping with the energizing colors of the green grass and blue water creates a luxurious dreamscape.
Light Blue
Imagine watching the waves roll from your private paradise. The dream is realized in this one-of-a-kind rectangle pool finished using NPT JewelScapes Reflective Aquamarine. Details include black granite coping, white quartzite decking, black glass pool tile on the steps and a stingray mosaic.
This homeowner's one-of-a-kind pool, finished using NPT's PolishedScapes Silver Reef, accentuates the natural curvature and beauty of their backyard. A dock connects the backyard paradise, complete with silver travertine decking, deck jets, pool bubblers, raised spa and fire bowls, to the magnificent coastal setting.
The perfect use of your backyard? Turning it into an endlessly fun poolscape. With so many NPT pool finishes, tiles and hardscapes to choose from, you can make it uniquely yours. This homeowner uses NPT QuartzScapes Grenadine Gray pool finish and dimensional Oklahoma flagstone coping for their backyard escape.
This breathtaking vanishing edge pool is nothing short of a fantasy come to life. NPT QuartzScapes Reflections Midnight Blue color pool finish defines the curvy shape while multifaceted blue Meridian tile graces the waterline. Complete with a swim up bar, raised spa, sun shelf lounge and fire features, this is backyard bliss.
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This free form pool and spa combination is as pleasing to the eyes as it is to the ears. NPT StoneScapes Touch of Glass Aqua White pool finish looks perfect with Mini Koyn Royal 1x1 tiles. The bubbling spillover spa water feature promotes relaxation.
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Enter this cement pool's deep dark green water, created using NPT StoneScapes Regular Black with Abalone shell, and transport yourself to paradise. Lounge on the sun shelf while the sheer descent water fall lulls you into relaxation. NPT's limestone coping and paver decking enhance the luxurious outdoor area.
NPT StoneScapes Midnight Blue plus JewelScapes Midnight Blue pool finish give this water its mesmerizing dark color, complimented by NPT cement stone coping. Neutral NPT Catania Sand 6x6 waterline tile smooths the transition between neutral tile and hypnotizing blue water.
Dark Blue
Welcome to the ultimate backyard oasis, complete with a large rectangle pool with local flagstone beach entry, multiple water features and spa. Pool finish is NPT StoneScapes Sand. Enjoy the best of backyard living with an outdoor kitchen and plenty of outdoor games including a putting green!
This poolscape showcases how to create a beach oasis in your own backyard, complete with a stunning freeform pool, raised spa and sandy beach! NPT StoneScapes Puerto Rico Blend Tahoe Blue pool finish provides the perfect water to relax in after enjoying fun in the sun.
Medium Blue
This homeowner maximized their space by installing a gorgeous freeform pool with a spillover spa in their backyard. NPT's StoneScapes Touch of Glass Puerto Rico Blend Tahoe Blue pool finish creates a dazzling blue water color, contrasting with NPT's Cowboy Coffee coping and colored concrete decking.
NPT's StoneScapes French Gray finish creates the geometric pool's refreshing light gray water color, complete with NPT's Waterfall Yosemite waterline tile. Soleil Silver tile on the raised spa, Belgard Mega-Lafitt Antique decking and natural paring promenade coping amplify the beauty of the home and poolscape.
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This poolscape defines "fun in the sun," with its large sun shelf, raised spa and waterslide. NPT's StoneScapes Touch of Glass Tropics Blue finish gives the pool its enticing hue. Tulipwood gray waterline tile complements the Bluestone coping.
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Design your dream pool to play up the best features of your home - like a breathtaking waterfront view. Every element of this poolscape draws your eye to the water - from the vanishing edge framed by twin fire bowls, to the in-pool banquette seating. NPT's StoneScapes Mini Pebble finishes bring a more natural, textured finish to the pond-like pool, with the beach entry and sun shelf in the Sand pool finish and the rest of the pool and attached spa in StoneScapes Tahoe Blue Touch of Glass.
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Create a beach in your own backyard with a spillover hot tub, an extra waterfall and bench seating around the whole perimeter of your pool. You can't forget your own island with sand, sun, and a hammock! Featuring: NPT StoneScapes Aqua Blue pool finish and Laramie Stone.
When you want your pool to make a statement, a multi-tiered spa delivers the goods. From all vantage points, the JewelScapes Yacht Club Blue pool finish and Jules Rustic Blue Blend glass tile play against the Travertine Noche pavers to a stunning effect.
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Large rectangle pool with a raised spa, a covered grilling area, a firepit, water features and a sun ledge. NPT JewelScapes Yacht Club Blue pool finish with Jules Rustic Blue Blend tiles and noche travertine make this pool one to talk about.
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Hardscape materials can turn a blank-slate back yard into a family fun zone. Set the foundation with a large deck using durable stone, like NPT Mocha Travertine, shown here in a French pattern. Ledger stone unifies the space, serving as an accent along the exterior wall, raised spa, gazebo, and outdoor kitchen.
This tropical, freeform paradise is composed of NPT StoneScapes Puerto Rico Blend Hokitika Gorge and StoneScapes Mini Sand to distinguish the stunning beach entry and tanning ledge. This pool exudes radiance with turquoise blue waters that complement the eye-catching infinity edge, raised spa, and island-like grotto.
Stepping down from the tanning ledge to the first two steps of this freeform beauty, this pool attracts with two StoneScapes finishes. While the tanning ledge is distinguished by NPT StoneScapes Mini Sand, the first two steps lead into the astounding waters comprised of NPT StoneScapes Puerto Rico Blend Hokitika Gorge. This combination transcends from a gorgeous light green water color to an alluring shade of turquoise.
This picture beautifully showcases how the pool's depth can enhance the vibrancy of colored aggregates. Although the StoneScapes Dapple Gray pool finish appears as a light gray watercolor, the water's depth enables the blue blend aggregates to reflect and create a stunning light blue hue.
A birds-eye view of this lovey L-shaped pools shows a wonderful place to entertain: multiple areas to lounge both in the pool and by the pool, an outdoor seating area with a fire feature and a view of the infinity edged pool, a raised overflow spa, a beautiful deck, stunning watercolor, and and outdoor dining area.
A birds-eye view of this lovey L-shaped pools shows a wonderful place to entertain: multiple areas to lounge both in the pool and by the pool, an outdoor seating area with a fire feature and a view of the infinity edged pool, a raised overflow spa, a beautiful deck, stunning watercolor, and and outdoor dining area.