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A tanning ledge changes how the shallow end of a custom pool gets used. It gives a person a place to sit in the water, set a chair partly in the water, or keep a close eye on younger swimmers without standing on a step. In Dallas–Fort Worth, that matters during the long stretch of…
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Roanoke sits where the small-town feel of old US-377 meets the growth pushing out from the 114 and I-35W corridor, and that mix shows up in the yards I get called out to. Some lots still carry the wider, flatter footprint of the town’s earlier ranch-style streets. Others are newer, platted in the last decade…
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Coppell sits between Grapevine Lake and the northwest corner of Dallas County, a small city built out mostly in the 1980s and 1990s and filled in more recently with gated developments like Blackberry off Sandy Lake Road. That mix matters more than most homeowners expect when I show up to look at a backyard. An…
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Trophy Club sits between Roanoke and Westlake in Denton County, built around the country club and its golf courses rather than a single master-planned template. Lots here were platted at different times by different builders, so the backyard I walk onto in the Trophy Club Park section looks nothing like the one three streets over…
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Argyle is still figuring out what it wants to be. That is exactly why it is a good place to build a pool. Argyle sits in the stretch of Denton County where horse country runs right up against new upscale development. Drive down FM 407 or Crawford Road and you will pass working horse properties…
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Frisco has changed. The backyards haven’t caught up yet. Frisco is one of the fastest-growing cities in Texas. New neighborhoods are still going in along the tollway, and the ones that were built ten or fifteen years ago are starting to age in ways the original owners didn’t plan for. What has not kept pace…
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Most of my Flower Mound projects start with a phone call about the backyard, and within a few minutes I’m talking about the soil. That’s not an accident. The clay conditions across Flower Mound shift from one neighborhood to the next, and what works structurally in Bridlewood may need a different approach near the Tour…
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Most Pool Builders Pass Through Grapevine. I Already Live Here. I have built pools across the DFW metroplex for over twenty years, and Grapevine is where I chose to live. That matters more than most homeowners realize when they start comparing bids. When I walk a property in Grapevine, I already know the soil. I…
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Southlake sits at the intersection of 114 and 1709, and the neighborhoods fanning out from Town Square have drawn homeowners who expect a certain standard from everything they invest in. That applies to pools. The projects I take on in Southlake tend to be planned carefully and built once, because the homeowners have done enough…
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Colleyville covers about thirteen square miles between Grapevine and Southlake, and most of the neighborhoods that make it distinctive were built between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s. That era of development left something that newer DFW suburbs rarely offer: half-acre to full-acre lots with mature hardwoods, established drainage patterns, and enough setback to build…