Blue AgavePools & Outdoor Living
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Three yards, told straight.

Every project below lists its real scope, materials, timeline, and budget band, because a photo of blue water tells you nothing about whether a builder kept their word. Drawings are the plan views from our studio.

Plan view of the Hummingbird Lane project: a long perimeter-overflow pool with square spa and a ramada facing the pool water edge reads as one line from the kitchen
Studio plan view, Hummingbird Lane

Paradise Valley · new build · completed 2025

Hummingbird Lane

The owners bought the house for one view: Mummy Mountain over the back wall. A conventional raised bond beam would have cut it in half. We built a perimeter-overflow pool instead, so the water edge disappears into a slot trough and the mountain sits directly on the waterline from the kitchen window.

The slope was the hard part. The deep end sits on caissons, and 112 tons of spoil left the site in week one. One change order the whole build: the owners added a gas line reroute for a future fire feature, priced in writing, ten days added, ten days delivered.

Scope
Perimeter-overflow pool, square spa, ramada, landscape lighting
Materials
Glass waterline tile, Turkish travertine deck, black pebble interior
Timeline
13 weeks of construction, dig to first swim
Budget band
$190k–$220k
Plan view of the Sonoran Terrace project: a geometric pool with wide shallow shelf, outdoor kitchen counter, and a linear fire trough shelf sized for two real chairs and a dog
Studio plan view, Sonoran Terrace

North Scottsdale · new build · completed 2024

Sonoran Terrace

A young family with a bare quarter-acre and one instruction: everything in one project, no phase two that never happens. Geometric pool with a shelf wide enough for two loungers and a labrador, spa benches at two depths, an outdoor kitchen under block and stucco, and a linear fire trough where the yard drops off.

We sequenced the trades so the kitchen's gas, the fire trough, and the pool heater share one line run, trenched once. That is the kind of saving design-build exists for; done as three separate contractor visits it would have been three trenches.

Scope
Pool & spa, 14-ft baja shelf, outdoor kitchen, linear fire trough, lighting
Materials
Midnight-blue pebble, porcelain paver deck, block-and-stucco kitchen, 36″ built-in grill
Timeline
12 weeks of construction
Budget band
$140k–$170k
Plan view of the Quiet Water remodel: an existing kidney-shaped pool shown half in its old finish and half in its new finish 1996 2024
Studio plan view, Quiet Water

Fountain Hills · remodel · completed 2024

Quiet Water

A 1996 kidney pool with a sound shell and everything else at end of life: chalking plaster, popped tile, a single-speed pump you could hear from the kitchen. We pressure-tested the plumbing before quoting a dollar, because remodeling on top of a leak is malpractice.

New mini-pebble interior, new waterline tile, travertine coping over the old brick, a variable-speed pump and salt system, and LED lighting. The owners' note afterward was about the quiet: the new pump is inaudible from the patio. Seven weeks, and they swam in week eight.

Scope
Interior refinish, tile & coping, equipment replacement, LED lighting
Materials
Mini-pebble interior, porcelain waterline tile, travertine coping
Timeline
7 weeks
Budget band
$70k–$90k

Start with a conversation, not a contract.

An hour in your yard or our Old Town studio. No obligation, no deposit, and you keep the honest budget range we give you.

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