Pools & Spas
Custom Swimming Pools & Backyard Resorts
Gunite or fiberglass, decided against your own site, then built as one complete backyard, not a pool with a yard leftover around it.
Chapter 01
Gunite or fiberglass, decided on your site
The first real decision on any pool project is the shell, and it gets decided against the actual ground it will sit in, not picked off a brochure before anyone has looked at the lot. Gunite is built in place, shot and shaped to whatever geometry the yard calls for, tanning ledges, a raised spa, a spillover edge, or a shape that has to work around an existing patio or a slope. Fiberglass arrives as a finished shell, which trades some of that shape freedom for a faster install and a smoother surface underfoot.
Both routes get built with named partners, not a generic subcontractor picked for the week. Gunite work runs through relationships with Imagine Pools, Thursday Pools, and Latham Pools, and a gunite shell finished in PebbleTech carries a different feel and a different maintenance rhythm than plaster, which is part of what gets walked through before anyone pours anything.
None of that gets decided in a showroom. It gets decided standing on the actual grade, looking at where the house sits, where the sun falls in the afternoon, and what the yard is already doing with water before a single shovel goes in.
Rectangular gunite pool with a raised spillover spa on a travertine deck at dusk, string lighting overhead and the house glowing behind it
A pool is never only a pool here
Every pool on this crew's board gets designed as a complete backyard environment, not a hole that gets dug and then handed off to whoever builds the patio next. Pool, personal spa, outdoor kitchen, a covered pavilion, fire features, the patio surrounding all of it, the lighting plan, and the drainage that keeps the whole graded yard moving water the right direction, all drawn on one set of plans before construction starts.
That sequencing is the actual craft. A pavilion roof that gets added after the pool deck is poured has to work around drainage that was never planned for it. A kitchen bolted onto a finished patio sits wherever there happened to be room, instead of where the cook actually wants to stand relative to the water. Drawing all of it together first is what keeps a backyard resort from reading like six separate projects that happened to land on the same lot.
Chapter 03
Water, cover and safety
Past the shell and the deck, the systems that make a pool livable get the same design attention as the shape of it. Water features and other pool enhancements get planned into the layout rather than bolted on afterward, automatic pool covers get sized to the actual footprint, and energy-efficient pool equipment gets specified so the running cost of the resort matches how it's actually going to be used.
Safety feature implementation runs alongside all of it, sized to the property and the household using it, not treated as a line item added at the end of a proposal.
One contractor through final inspection
Allin Landscaping is a licensed General Contractor with the State of Tennessee and carries insurance, which is what allows one crew to run a pool, its pavilion, its kitchen, and its landscaping under a single contract instead of a homeowner coordinating five separate trades and hoping the schedules line up.
The design-build team manages the project from the first concept drawing through final construction, which is the same structure George Allin's own clients describe: one point of contact who is accountable for the whole yard, not just the water in it.
Allin Landscaping, one design-build contractor from the first concept drawing through final construction, licensed General Contractor with the State of Tennessee and insured. Call (615) 351-5776.