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looks great! How deep did you go with your baja shelf? 12" or 18"?

Thanks :) Pool temp is up to 63 degrees! Just a few more months and we will be swimming.

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Thanks. That was my wife's song choice! A perfect fit indeed.

Hello all! Our backyard is now complete and so is the time-lapse video of the landscape crew doing it all! Very fun and cool video to watch. Enjoy the transformation of our yard. http://youtu.be/9XyHs5jCoD4

Very valid point! We did think about the chimney placement and the edge of the pergola placement. They are aligned just perfectly enough where the smoke should avoid the lattice bars on the pergola. We didnt want to go any higher on the flume portion of the chimney because we really liked the...

Couldn't finish today but will certainly finish tomorrow. Just need to finish laying and fluffing the turf and then do a final spray down and cleanup of everything. Time to burn fire tomorrow night.

Almost turf time!

Should be done Thursday they said. Here is today's progress. The inside of the fireplace is complete and the outside will be finished tomorrow. Getting oh so close to completion.

Pavers are going in right now. Once against the fireplace they will finish facing the lower front of it. Coming along nicely.

Home Depot here sells colored wood chips so we will probably do that in a black color to go over top.

Coming along nicely. Today they finished most of the interior of the fireplace. Stucco'd the small new retaining wall to hide the pool equipment. Finished the planter and capped it with the travertine. All new electrical and plumbing to the planter was completed. A new outlet was ran to the back...

Thanks were very happy with the stonework and color choice. Yes the fireplace will be covered with the same stone. The top of the planter and mantle/hearth on the fireplace will all be travertine. The inside of the fireplace has firebrick and it just helps with high temp heat. Here is the...

Starting to look amazing. Should be done next week with everything. Have pavers and synthetic turf to put down yet.

Company called advantage brands. High rating on Angies List and the price was perfect.

Today the alumawood PERGOLA is going up. They should also be finishing up the fireplace and planter. Can't wait for the final product.

Here is today's final progress. They have a good chunk of the fireplace built and tomorrow they will wrap it up. This will be faced with real stacked stone and travertine, same with our new rose planter. Fireplace was built to hide our pool equipment.

Starting to look like a fireplace

Oh and I still have my own personal Street light in my driveway in front of my house. This one is really nice to have and I use it a lot actually.

The rumor is the original owner of our home was afraid of the dark and worked for the city and had this installed. It worked great and would light up our entire backyard no problem. It was on our electric so we paid for it if we used it. It also had an outlet at the base which was nice as well...

The big pole was an actual streetlight, same thing that's used in city streets. As far as I'm aware we are the only people that have a city streetlight in our backyard. But now it's gone. Another photo of it.

Our backyard transformation continues with the Remodel of our yard. Here is what it looked like to begin with. Yesterday and today we had all the concrete and grass demod and removed. Footers poured for our new fireplace and planter Tomorrow they continue building the planter and...

They put all the fittings on during the plaster period. I couldnt tell if they did it before or after but all I know is that day when they were finished with the new pebble interior all the new fittings were in place when they left. - - - Updated - - - The moment you all have been waiting for...

I'll get some more photos this afternoon when the sun is sitting high over it so you can see how the abalone shells and glass beads really shine in the light. I'm also putting together my time-lapse video of the entire process from start to finish so keep an eye out for that final post with the...

All filled up. Love the finished product. Very happy with what presidential pools here in Phoenix did.

Almost full. Should be done around 2pm today at this rate.

They did yes

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Acid wash was this morning and now we're filling it up. Closeup of the pebble radiance interior which has glass beads and abalone shells in it.