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Lisa North and Andre Del Re | Da Vida Pools, LLC
Category: Concrete Pools
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Ripple effect
Given the trees and lake in the background, the design team wanted something with organic forms inspired by nature. They decided the stream should originate with a wider bed at the spa, then curve and narrow before falling into the pool.
“It [appears to] essentially carve its way through the sand and go toward the ocean,” says Andre Del Re, co-owner of Da Vida Pools in Austin, Texas. “It’s just been an idea of mine since I was a kid playing in the beach in Mozambique.”
He and partner Lisa North personally placed the Kolorines Vitrogota glass pebble tiles piece by piece, and filled in the spaces with Beadcrete in Aqua Splash, taking care to attain the right combination of color, shape and sparkle, and ensuring proper elevations of the material for the desired rippling effect. Casa Antica white pebble, mounted on 12-by-12-inch mesh, were used to create the “beach” outside the water.
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