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Thanks. I think I could make it look much more attractive for sure. I'm trying to figure out how to make it more functional too, with the skinny 4' space when you walk in (the door swings in and takes up half of that space as well) its hard to figure out how to make it useful. I would say...

Haha. I didnt even think about that. The good thing is the main house is on city water, the well is for irrigation and misc stuff at this point since water costs a fortune out here. -JD

Hi All - I'm struggling trying to finish the backside of my pool deck as theres an elevation drop with a slope that leads to the well house. Been trying to figure out if i should do retaining wall(s), planters, stairs, drop down about 6" and do a large gravel deck, feather it straight down from...

Hi All - This seems somewhat like a no brainer question, but after only a few dips in our new pool its become clear that having a good strategy for getting everyone dried off before entering the house is a must or we are going to have quite a mess on our hands. Its country living where we are...

The issue is even with the lights turned off, they still gather in mass at the porch because of the inside lights that shine through the windows. The whole length of the porch wall is covered with windows from the living room, kitchen, etc so its tough to not have lights on inside. I replaced...

Hi All - Was wondering if theres some good solutions out there to deal with flying bugs when the sun starts setting and through the eve? We got our pool finished up and finally got some lighting and porch setup and just in time for the cold weather to start leaving us here in Austin, TX. One...

Hi All - I was hoping to get some input on the solar breeze unit (https://www.solar-breeze.com/). We just finished our pool about a month ago and we have come to the stark realization that we have a full time job on our hands cleaning our pool here in central texas. We have a few acres and...

Hi All - We are just finishing up our pool and have came to the realization that our bathroom situation is going to be a BIG problem. From the pool area, you literally have to walk through the whole house to get to the bathroom and given we live in the country, things tend to be a little dusty...

Thanks for the suggestions. Thus far, our stone guy is here making the firepit and we're adding to his to-do list. (Prior to reading these suggestions). We're doing some raised planter bed in the matching stone/lueders where the planter cutouts are along the porch to make those level with the...

Hi There - We are wrapping up our pool project and now that the concrete decking is done, it's clear we have some more 'work' to do to make the yard-to-deck transitions more usable and more "finished" looking. The yard slopes down a fair bit so on the deep end of the pool/deck we have quite a...

Here's one that I found that looks like they did a good job of keeping it clean and geometrical while still adding some color by going with what looks to be brown lueders. Maybe something along these lines (albeit a bit lighter shade of brown/sand) with some bone/sand type concrete would be the...

Hi All - We have finally getting somewhere on our pool build. Took quite a bit to drill through mountains of limestone, but its coming together quickly now. We also just finished a porch makeover to remove a terrible looking screened in porch with blue carpet, etc. We put in some cedar posts...

Only real options i have in there are pebbletech, ez touch 8 controller, 4 deck jets and a pump to run them and thats pretty much it. The controller adds around $1750. Jets and pump add around $900. The jets seem reasonable given it will be the only real water movement/sound since we didnt...

I hope the fencing is much cheaper than that, eek. On the decking we haven't fully decided yet. The PB puts estimates in the price but doesn't 'sell' the decking directly, but rather brings in the decking subs into the project and we work out final quantities/cost with them, etc. I'm assuming...

Hi All - It's been a little bit since I posted this thread, but wanted to circle back and hopefully get some thoughts around my current thinking. Essentially, we gravitated towards the rectangle pool design. At first thought it was going to be simple/clean/easy and hopefully cheaper. After...

Re: Stuck on fencing design/options for Texas Hill Country p Boy, I'm all over the place now after reading the comments and looking at photos online. My original plan was: - Tear out screened porch as it closes the house off too much. Replace all 2x4's with a handful of cedar support...

Re: Stuck on fencing design/options for Texas Hill Country p We appear to be in the ETJ zone from what i can tell. Hmm..that makes things even more confusing as I'd want to follow whatever codes make sense to just to be covered. Those are oaks and live oaks mainly. A few cedars in the back...

Re: Stuck on fencing design/options for Texas Hill Country p Good to know on the wildlife. I didn't really think it would be an issue as I didn't think they would want to wonder into a pool, but now I know. We have quite a few deer, fox, cats/dogs and critters of all kind cruising around...

Hi All - I'm new to the forum and hoping to get some advice. I'm outside of city limits in the country a bit and we were hoping to get a pool built. One thing I didn't even consider at all was fencing. It didn't really come up as a necessity with the PB's, but after looking around a bit it...