Custom pool contractor · Kerrville, TX Hill Country living, up the road in Kerrville.

Kerrville sits in limestone Hill Country, and many of its best homesites are on hillsides. A pool here is often as much a structural project as a design one. Getting a level pool and usable terraces onto a slope takes engineered walls and careful site work. Our guide to building on a hillside walks through what that involves.

The Guadalupe River and its tributaries shape this part of the Hill Country, and the area is known for fast-rising water after heavy rain. If your property is anywhere near a creek or the river, it is important to establish early where the floodplain sits and how water crosses the land. That can affect where a pool, wall or structure can go, and which approvals you need. We look at this before design starts, and we would rather tell you early if a location does not make sense.

Even well above the river, storm runoff off the hills moves quickly over thin soil. Grading and drainage are part of the design on every site.

Many rural properties around Kerrville rely on wells, so water use matters. A landscape built on tough, well-adapted plants needs far less irrigation once established. Rainwater collection can take further pressure off a well, and we have built tanks into several projects, some hidden beneath a cabana or screened by a pergola.

For a project a little way from our studio, a design/build firm offers something practical. There is one point of contact and one team responsible for the whole job, so you are not coordinating a pool builder, a mason and a landscaper yourself. That is particularly helpful if the property is a second home.