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Luxury gets attached to anything expensive, and in the pool business it usually arrives as a photograph of an infinity edge over a canyon. That is a fine picture, but it is not what the word means in this trade. A luxury pool is not the pool with the most money in it. It is…

The pool gets all the attention during planning. The deck is where the backyard actually gets used: where the chairs go, where people stand with a drink, where the kids drop their towels on the way past. Most homeowners start by picking a material, working backward from a photo of a stone or stamped concrete…

I’m Sean, and building pools is the family business. My grandfather Charles started it, my dad carried it on, and now it’s my turn: more than 60 years and three generations of digging, framing, and finishing backyards across the East Bay. In all that time, one method has stayed at the center of what we…

Every June, it’s the same thing. The fog burns off, Concord starts heating up, and the kids start asking why the neighbors have a pool and we don’t. Sound familiar? A pool is more than a backyard upgrade around here. It’s where families cool off, host friends, and make the most of those long East…