Pool Decks & Surrounds
The Room Around the Water.
We don't build pools — but we do everything around them. Coping, decks, surround landscape, lighting, and the architecture that turns the pool from a hole in the ground into the focal point of the property.
How we draw and build pool decks.
Request a Property ConsultationA pool surround is its own design problem. The deck has to drain, the coping has to handle water and sun, the planting has to tolerate splash, and the night-time lighting has to flatter both the water and the architecture. We coordinate with your pool builder during construction so the surround composition is right from the day the water goes in — not retrofitted afterward.
“A pool surround is its own design problem.”
Travertine, bluestone, brick, and concrete-paver decks are all in our regular palette.
Field photograph · Pool Decks
The work, in its parts.
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Paver & travertine decks
Concrete-paver, travertine, and bluestone pool decks with proper drainage and slip-resistant texture.
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Stone coping
Bluestone, granite, and travertine coping cut and set to match the deck material.
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Surround planting
Salt- and chlorine-tolerant planting palettes that hold form against splash and sun.
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Pool lighting
Architectural up-lighting on surround features, plus path lighting between the house and the water.
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Outdoor showers
Cedar-enclosed and stone-clad outdoor showers with hot and cold lines.
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Pool houses & cabanas
Cabana structures with finish carpentry, electrical, and integrated landscape.
Photographs from recent work.
Full GalleryThree reasons for pool decks & surrounds.
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Material to climate
Travertine, bluestone, and the right paver lines hold up to chlorine, sun, and Eastern NC humidity.
02 · Pool Decks
Drained, not just sloped
Pool decks need real drainage; we design slot drains and pitch every deck to a daylight outlet.
03 · Pool Decks
Composed with the house
We treat the pool as one room of a larger property — not as an isolated feature.
Common questions.
The questions we’re asked most often about pool decks. Don’t see yours? Send us a note.
- We don't dig and shoot the gunite. We do design the surround composition, coordinate with your pool builder, and execute every square foot of deck, coping, planting, and lighting around the water.
- Travertine for the high end (cool to the foot, beautiful patina); concrete pavers for value (tougher than poured concrete, infinitely repairable); bluestone for traditional architecture. We're happy to walk all three.
- Choose salt- and chlorine-tolerant species, agave, miscanthus, dwarf palm, oleander where the climate allows. We design every poolside palette around what will actually thrive there.
- Yes. Most of our pool projects are retrofits, replacing dated concrete with paver or travertine, rebuilding coping, and refreshing the surround landscape. Existing pool shells stay; everything around them is rebuilt.
Disciplines we often draw together.
All Disciplines
Ready to start your pool decks & surrounds project?
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