Santa Monica Pool Builders designs and builds custom pools for homes near the coast. From the first design conversation through engineering, permitting, excavation, the sprayed shell, tile, plaster, and the deck, one crew owns the entire build. We plan the pool around your home's indoor-outdoor flow and the realities of a coastal lot, put the design and price in writing, and build every phase to last in the marine environment.
- Clean-lined, coastal-modern designs
- 3D plans and indoor-outdoor planning
- Permits and engineering coordinated
- Shotcrete or gunite shells
- Corrosion-aware equipment and details
How a coastal-modern pool comes together
A new pool is built in a fixed order, and each stage rests on the one before it. We open with a design that accounts for your home's layout, the lot, the grade, the access, and the way you want the backyard to live. Once you approve the plan and the renderings, we coordinate the permits and engineering and stake out the dig. Excavation gives the pool its shape, then we tie the steel, run the plumbing, and spray the shotcrete or gunite shell that carries the structure.
From there the work moves to what you actually touch every day: the waterline tile, the coping that meets the deck, the interior finish, and the hardscape that frames the water. On a coastal-modern build, those transitions are where the design lives, so we hold tight tolerances and coordinate the lines between the pool, the deck, and the house.
Throughout, we tell you where the project stands and what comes next, because a build that communicates is far less stressful than one that goes silent. We close out with equipment startup, water balance, the final inspection, and a walk-through that leaves you knowing how to run your new pool.
Shaped to your home and the view
The right pool for a coastal home is the one designed around that exact home and lot. A glass-walled living room that opens to the yard, a particular sightline to the water, a narrow side yard that limits access, or a slope toward the view all change what the pool should be. We design with those facts in front of us, so the plan we hand you is one we are confident we can build without nasty surprises mid-project.
We also design around how you actually live outside. A household that entertains wants generous deck and a spa; one focused on morning laps wants a clean rectilinear shape and length; a family wants a shelf and an easy entry. We tune the depth, the steps, the benches, and the features to your life rather than a catalog.
Because we build what we draw, the decisions that drive both look and budget get made as one. The shell, the finishes, the equipment, and the deck all play off each other, and planning them together is how a coastal-modern backyard ends up reading as a single composed space.
Engineered for the long run near the coast
The structure decides how long a pool lasts, so it gets our closest attention. We engineer the shell for the local soil and slope, set the steel correctly, and spray a sound shell built to stand for decades. The plumbing is run for efficient circulation, and the equipment pad is built, bonded, and sited with the marine air in mind.
The materials are chosen to hold their look and function in the coastal climate: quality plaster, quartz, or pebble interiors, durable tile and coping, and corrosion-resistant hardware where salt air would otherwise win. We pick them with you to suit the design and the way you will use the pool, not as a reflexive upsell.
We build to local pool code and the relevant ANSI/APSP and ICC-5 standards, with the engineering and inspections that make a pool safe and durable. If you are planning a new pool near Santa Monica, call 213-589-2730 for a free design consultation and an honest, written plan.
One team for renovation, repair, and more
A pool is a design-build project, so pool construction rarely stands alone, it connects to pool renovation, pool remodeling, a new plaster finish, decking and hardscape, energy-efficient equipment, and our crew handles all of it as one accountable team. We bring the same service to Pool Construction in Ocean Park, Pool Construction in Sunset Park, Pacific Palisades pool construction, Brentwood pool construction and everywhere else across the Santa Monica area.
If you searched for a pool crew near Santa Monica, you have reached a local pool builder, call 213-589-2730 any time. For background, read Coastal-Modern Pool Design: Making the Pool Part of the House on our blog, or head back to our Santa Monica home page to see everything we do.