Which pavers work best around a pool?
Pool deck pavers are natural stone or porcelain pavers made for outdoor floors, with a tumbled, textured or matte face. Travertine is the traditional choice, marble in a textured finish gives a cleaner look, limestone brings a soft, even tone, and porcelain pavers keep a uniform color across the whole deck. The natural stone pavers here are 1 1/4 inch thick and the porcelain pavers 20 mm or 3/4 inch.
Travertine pool pavers for a pool deck
The travertine pool pavers here are all tumbled, with softened edges and an aged, textured face. Light colors include Ivory, Chiaro, Latte, Light Select and Light Standard, browns include Walnut, Noce and Mocha Noce, Silver brings a cool gray, Scabos mixes gold, rust, beige and gray, and Country Classic blends cream, ivory and walnut tones. They come in squares and rectangles such as 12x12, 16x16, 16x24 and 24x24, and in French pattern sets. More travertine sizes and colors are in travertine pavers.
Which marble and limestone pavers suit a pool deck?
Marble pool pavers come in finishes that give the face texture. Sandblasted sets include Mist White, Azure Breeze, Harbor Blue and Atlantic Silver, leathered pavers include Mist White, Royal Beige, Vanilla Shadow and Tundra Grey, and Wavy Grey and Bianco Turco are fine picked, a face textured with small chisel marks. Wynwood Gray is brushed, Fantasia Blanca and Azure Breeze also come tumbled, and Silver Sky, Royal Beige and Moon Grey come in Textura, Renaissance and nano finishes. Limestone pool pavers include Shell Reef and Paris, both tumbled, and Myra Shellstone, brushed. The full marble range is in marble pavers.
Are porcelain pavers good for a pool deck?
Porcelain pavers for a pool deck keep the color and size consistent from piece to piece, and their matte outdoor face is made for exterior floors. The Frontier20 line from Landmark Ceramics is 20 mm thick and listed for pool and spa areas across its range, so a pool deck can take the look of travertine, limestone, bluestone, slate or quartz, and even wood in the Essence 12x48 planks. Stone Tile Depot also has 3/4 inch porcelain pool pavers such as Roca Beige, Tokyo White and Rasa White, and natural stone look pavers in white, warm gray, blue and multicolor. More are in porcelain pavers.
Which colors suit a light, bright deck?
A light deck keeps the area around the water bright and lets the blue of the pool stand out. Among natural stone, the lightest choices are Ivory, Chiaro, Light Select and Light Standard travertine, Mist White and Bianco Turco marble, and Shell Reef limestone. In porcelain, Arctic White quartz look, Travertine Cross Cut White and Michelangelo Extra White marble look give the whitest decks. For a warmer setting, Walnut and Noce travertine or Royal Beige marble bring brown and beige tones, and Atlantic Silver, Harbor Blue and Montauk Black make a cooler, more modern pool.
Silver and gray pool decks
Gray pool decks give a more contemporary look than the classic beige travertine deck. Silver tumbled travertine, a gray travertine at 1 1/4 inch, is the natural stone choice for a silver travertine pool deck, with Atlantic Silver sandblasted marble, Wynwood Gray brushed marble, Tundra Grey leathered marble, Wavy Grey fine picked marble and Paris limestone as other grays. In porcelain, Frontier20 Travertine Cross Cut Silver, Indiana Grey, Montauk Grey and Star Grey cover lighter and darker grays. Gray pavers pair well with white coping or with matching gray coping for a single-tone deck.
Which paver sizes are available?
Pool pavers here come in squares such as 12x12, 16x16 and 24x24, rectangles such as 6x12, 12x24 and 16x24, and large formats such as 24x48 and 12x48. Large sizes such as 24x24 pavers or 24x48 give a pool deck few joints and an open look, smaller squares and 6x12 pieces suit curves and narrow paths, and French pattern sets mix several sizes into a classic, hand-set layout. Many travertine and marble colors come in several sizes, so a deck can pair a large field size with a smaller border in the same stone.
What goes at the water's edge?
The edge of the pool takes coping, a paver with a finished edge that caps the pool wall, and the deck pavers run back from it. Coping is in pool copings, including travertine pool copings, and pool tile and mosaics for the waterline are in pool and spa tiles.
