In Sacramento, a custom pool design starts with more than just collecting measurements and selecting materials. It starts with understanding how you want to live in your backyard.
At Legacy Pool & Spa, we provide professional pool design services for homeowners throughout Sacramento County, Placer County, El Dorado County, and the surrounding Northern California region. Whether you are planning a new inground pool, a spa, a complete backyard transformation, or a phased outdoor living project, our team helps turn your ideas into a buildable, beautifully planned design.
Bring Your Vision to Life With 3D Design
Legacy Pool & Spa uses the latest 3D rendering software from Pool Studio to help clients clearly visualize their future pool before construction begins. These stunning 3D presentations and video flythroughs allow you to see what your finished backyard will look like, from the pool shape and spa placement to decking, water features, lighting, landscaping, and outdoor living areas.
Instead of trying to imagine the finished result from a flat drawing, you can experience the design in a realistic 3D environment. This helps you make better decisions, feel more confident about the direction of the project, and fine-tune the details before construction begins.
Designing Around Your Lifestyle
Every family uses their backyard differently. Some homeowners want a peaceful retreat. Others want a fun, energetic space for kids, guests, and weekend entertaining. Some want a resort-inspired design influenced by places they have traveled, while others want something clean, modern, and low maintenance.
Our design process begins by learning about you. We talk through your lifestyle, how you plan to use the pool, how often you entertain, your design tastes, favorite destinations, preferred materials, and the features that matter most to you. These details help us understand the feeling you want your backyard to create.
From there, we help you articulate your vision and translate it into a practical, beautiful pool design that fits your property, budget, and long-term goals.
Planning, Budgeting & Material Selection
Once the design direction is established, the next step is planning and budgeting. Selecting pool materials, interior finishes, tile, coping, decking, equipment, lighting, automation, water features, and outdoor amenities can feel overwhelming without the right guidance.
Legacy Pool & Spa helps simplify that process. We walk you through the available options, explain the benefits of different materials and equipment choices, and help you make decisions that align with your budget and expectations.
This is especially helpful for homeowners who plan to build their backyard in stages. You may want to build the pool first, then add an outdoor kitchen, entertainment area, pavilion, fire feature, or expanded landscape design later. With the right plan in place from the beginning, your backyard can be designed to grow in phases without feeling pieced together.
Engineering, Permits & Pool Planning
A great pool design also needs to be ready to build. Legacy Pool & Spa assists with complete engineering plans and the permit process for projects in Sacramento County, Placer County, and El Dorado County.
Each county has its own requirements, review process, and permitting expectations. Having an experienced pool professional involved from the outset can make a major difference. Our team helps manage the process, coordinate the necessary documentation, and move your project forward properly.
Once your design is dialed in and ready for construction, we help quarterback the project through its full lifecycle.
Clear Communication Throughout
Building a pool involves many phases, from layout and excavation to plumbing, steel, electrical, gunite, tile, coping, decking, equipment, plaster, and startup. Knowing what is happening next makes the process easier and less stressful.
Legacy Pool & Spa keeps clients informed through our customer portal powered by Jobber. During each phase of construction, you will know who is scheduled to arrive, what day they are coming, what work they are performing, and how long that phase is expected to take.
Our goal is to make the pool design and construction process feel organized, transparent, and manageable from start to finish.
Pool Design Services We Provide
Legacy Pool & Spa provides custom pool design services for:
- New inground gunite pools
- Custom spas and spillover spas
- Pool and spa combinations
- Modern backyard retreats
- Resort-style pool designs
- Family-friendly pool layouts
- Outdoor living master planning
- Phased backyard construction plans
- Water features and fire features
- Pool lighting and automation planning
- Equipment layout and selection
- Material, tile, coping, and finish selection
- 3D renderings and video flythroughs
- Engineering and permit coordination
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Frequently Asked Questions
A 3D design is highly recommended for custom pool projects. It helps you visualize the finished space, compare options, make changes before construction, and feel confident in the final direction before work begins.
The cost of pool design depends on the scope of the project, the size of the pool, the complexity of the backyard, and whether additional outdoor living elements are included. During your consultation, we will discuss your goals and help determine what level of design and planning is needed.
Yes. We can help plan the pool as part of a larger backyard vision, including future outdoor kitchens, patios, pavilions, entertainment areas, fire features, landscaping, and other amenities.
Absolutely. Many homeowners choose to build in stages. We can help create a master plan so the pool, utilities, equipment, and future amenities are designed with the full project in mind.
Yes. Legacy Pool & Spa assists with engineering plans and permit filing for projects in Sacramento County, Placer County, and El Dorado County. Each county has a different process, and we help guide the project through the necessary steps.
We provide pool design services throughout Sacramento County, Placer County, El Dorado County, and nearby communities across the greater Sacramento region.
Schedule a Pool Design Consultation
Ready to start planning your dream backyard? Legacy Pool & Spa can help you move from ideas and inspiration to a clear, buildable pool design. Schedule a design consultation today and let our team help you create a custom pool and outdoor living space designed around your lifestyle, your property, and your budget.