The Pool area in original state

 

Here's where we decided to have a pool, and a waterspout fountain gushing out from a mask or tile mounted on the column.

That's the family room door straight ahead, while the main door to the house is to our left, beyond those pink flip-flops.

 
Got a nice Balinese tile. That's it wrapped in brown hardpaper beside that cracked pot (repaired with mortar). Click photograph to enlarge and you can see part of the tile.

As the fibleglass pool was 10 inch deep, we needed to dig only about 5 inches to have the pool rim level or just below the surrounding floor level, as the dirt level had been deliberately left about 5 inches lower.