Pool Edges: Water Filled to the Brim

A close-up of a shallow pool. The water surface is almost flush with the stone-built edge, only one or two centimeters below, allowing reflections to extend all the way to one's feet without revealing the pool wall. The pool bottom is made of dark stone or plaster, and the water is highly transparent but appears deep. Avoid: letting the water level be lower than the pool edge, exposing a band of the wall; tiling the pool wall with blue tiles; having ripples on the water surface that disrupt reflections; making the pool edge a wide platform that pushes the water away.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一座淺水池的近景。水面幾乎與石砌池緣齊平,只差一兩公分,倒影因此可以一路延伸到腳邊,沒有露出池壁。池底是深色的石材或抹灰,水的透明度高但看起來很深。避免:讓水位低於池緣露出一圈壁面、把池壁貼上藍色磁磚、水面有波紋破壞倒影、池緣做成寬大的檯面把水推遠。