Design Considerations and Functional Tips

It's going to look nice. Let's take a minute to talk about the design of this project, plus some tips for you when you're designing yours. One of the challenges that we had is the free form shape of the pool that's existing. We want to go around that complementing it, picking up some of those curves. So, we decided to incorporate two circular features on either end of the patio to kind of bring everything together, incorporate some of those curves. Take your time, be creative with that. It always helps me when I'm working with free form shapes to sketch it out by hand and kind of get the ideas flowing. So, that's what I did here and I think it turned out awesome. So, I'm really excited to see it come together. Another tip is mixing different shapes and sizes. We've got quite a few different pavers going in here, but we decided to just keep it to three colors. They're all in the same palette. So, we have grays and we have blacks and they all work together. So, it looks really natural. It's not too busy because we have so many different pavers going in. So, inside the circle, we used a tile stone by Nolock 6x 24. And then in the main section, we used the Alpine Contemporary 24x36. So, that larger format. And just by contrasting the size, it adds a really cool depth to the design without changing it up too much because they're both the same color. With all the curves, that usually means a lot of cutting. So, one way to minimize that was to use the mosaic paper in our circle inlay. Those are really nice because they add a cool kind of cobblestone look to it. And they're free form, so you don't have to have any cuts. You just lay out your perimeter and then you lay inside of that. There's not going to be any cuts. So, it's a little bit like a puzzle, but turns out really cool. And again, no cuts there. So, we try to minimize that. Going around a pool, there's going to be a lot of cuts, but however we can minimize that is always a win. The last tip I will give you is more of a functional tip. So, you saw how we built the bench in this video. That is going to lead right up to our fire pit. And what we like to do for that is have 2 feet in between your seating and your fire pit. That way, it's not too far away, but you can still walk around it while someone's sitting there. So that's the number that we always go with, 24 in from whatever your seat is to the edge of the fire pit. And that way you still have that room, but you're not too far away from it. So keep…