Can your builder design any shape I dream up?

Yes. Geometric or freeform designs, or something nobody has drawn before. Gunite gives total freedom, vinyl handles most shapes, and fiberglass offers a wide range of shells we design the rest of the space around. Pool renovations count too: we can reshape what another company poured.

Can I get an inground pool for $30,000?

Not an inground pool worth owning, and anyone who quotes that project is planning change orders. Our honest floor is a $42,000 plunge pool. Most projects start around $80,000.

How long does pool construction take in Nashville, TN?

Most pool projects run 8 to 16 weeks of construction time once we break ground, with fiberglass on the faster end, plus a few weeks up front for design and permitting. We set a realistic schedule at the sketch and keep you posted the whole time.

How do I choose between pool builders?

Look at experience, licensing, reviews, and who actually shows up: many builders hand your project to seven subcontractors. Our team of trained, supervised crews answers to one standard, and after fifty years and thousands of swimming pools, our work is swimming all over Middle Tennessee.

What if my yard is sloped or a tight city lot?

Slopes are a design gift. We terrace, retain, and grade, and some of our most beautiful pools sit on hillsides a flat property could never match. Tight Nashville lots still get a pool sized for the space, including plunge pools.

Do you handle Metro permits and HOA approvals?

Yes. We pull Metro Nashville and county permits, submit the site plans, coordinate every inspection, and prepare HOA paperwork where your neighborhood requires it. You stay out of the process entirely.

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CUSTOM POOL BUILDERS IN NASHVILLE, TN

Dreamed Up in Island Time. Drawn by Hand. Built to Outlast the Mortgage.

E Komo Mai. Custom pools are all we have done for fifty years.

Custom pools in Nashville are all Backyard Resort Pools has built for fifty years. We design custom swimming pools in gunite, fiberglass, vinyl, and ICF, each drawn by hand by founder Ernie Nagy, the Pool Kahuna, and built by trained, supervised crews. If you can dream it, we can pour it.

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50+ YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

LICENSED AND INSURED

GUNITE, FIBERGLASS, VINYL AND ICF

PLUNGE POOLS FROM $42K

Custom Pool Design Starts with a Pencil, Not a Catalog

Your property is not a template, and a custom pool project should never come from one. Here is how the work goes with us:

Sketch.

We walk your property, listen to your vision, and Ernie draws the design by hand around your land, your trees, and your life.

Quote.

You get one itemized quote before you sign. The number we give you is the number you pay.

Build.

Trained, supervised crews carry the project from excavation to final fill, working to the standard our founder set five decades ago.

OUR CRAFT

Pool Construction Services in Gunite, Fiberglass, Vinyl, and ICF

A beautiful design deserves the right material, and we build custom pools in more of them than any pool company in Nashville.

Crew shaping the concrete shell of a custom gunite pool

Gunite and Concrete Pools

The most flexible swimming pool there is. Concrete takes any shape, any depth, any vanishing edge, and holds it for generations of pool parties. Most of our fully custom pool projects are gunite.

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Fiberglass pool shell lowered into place by crane

Fiberglass Pool Installation

A smooth-finish swimming pool shell set in weeks, not months. You choose the shape, and our team designs everything around it: decking, water features, lighting, landscape.

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Insulated concrete form pool walls with rebar before the pour

Custom Vinyl and ICF Pools

Vinyl keeps budgets friendly without giving up shape. And ICF construction, which no other Nashville pool builder offers, insulates the shell for warmer water and lower heating bills.

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ONLY AT BACKYARD RESORT POOLS

ICF pool construction. An insulated concrete shell no other pool builder in this market offers, for water that holds its warmth into October.

Features That Turn a Swimming Hole into a Lagoon

Design is where the fun lives. What homeowners ask our team to create most in a custom pool:

Tanning ledges for shallow lounging with a drink in hand

Infinity and vanishing edges on sloped lots with a view

Spas and hot tubs built into the shell, not bolted on

Waterfalls and grottos that sound like vacation

Fire features for pool nights that run past dark

LED lighting that turns the water to glass at sunset

Stone outdoor kitchen with grill island beside a custom pool

THE WHOLE BACKYARD

Outdoor Living for the Whole Backyard

A beautiful pool deserves company. Our team builds the outdoor kitchens, patios, hardscapes, and water features around it, so one crew shapes the complete outdoor living space and every finish ties together. Grill islands, fire pits, falling water: we plan the whole outdoor living space in the first sketch, even if you complete the project in phases. Your Nashville backyard becomes one space, not a pool next to leftover grass.

The Kahuna vs. Typical Nashville Pool Builders

Here is how our approach compares with other pool builders in town.

BACKYARD RESORT POOLS

TYPICAL BUILDERS

Design

Hand-drawn for your exact lot

Picked from a brochure

Shape

Anything you can dream

Whatever the mold allows

Features

Spas, ledges, edges built in

Add-ons where they fit

Site fit

Engineered for slopes and tight lots

Flat, open yards only

Crews

Trained, supervised, ours

Rotating subcontractors

DESIGNED FOR THE DIRT

A Pool Company That Designs for Tennessee Ground

The prettiest sketch fails if it ignores the dirt. Middle Tennessee clay swells, shrinks, and freezes, and half the best lots in Nashville sit on a slope. So every design process here starts with the property: excavation and drainage planned for clay, pool construction engineered for freeze-thaw, and terraced layouts that turn a hillside into the prettiest water on the street. Fifty years of experience in this ground guides each line Ernie draws.

Custom pool shell set into excavated Tennessee clay on a sloped lot

STRAIGHT NUMBERS

What Custom Builds Cost in Nashville

Honest numbers before you ever call. Our plunge pools start as low as $42,000. Most custom pool projects land at $80,000 or more once you add the features homeowners want, and complete outdoor living spaces with spas, kitchens, and premium finishes run well past $250,000 in the Nashville pool construction market. Your itemized quote spells out each line before you sign.

Every project includes:

A hand-drawn design of your vision and a materials walkthrough with Ernie

One itemized quote, zero surprise fees

Excavation, compaction, and drainage done right for Tennessee clay

Pressure-tested plumbing before backfill

Premium materials chosen for fade resistance and comfort underfoot

Financing is available through lenders who finance this kind of build every day.

★★★★★

“We wanted a pool that matched the patio we’d just put in and needed someone who could tie the finishes together. They brought material samples, walked us through the equipment options, and the finished pool looks like it belongs there. The craftsmanship shows in every detail.”

EMILY · BACKYARD RESORT POOLS CUSTOMER

The One Rule Fifty Years of Experience Won’t Break

Ask for anything: a swim-up bar, a slide off the hillside, a lagoon shaped like Tennessee. Ernie has sketched stranger. The one thing he will not draw is a pool the ground cannot hold. If your vision fights your lot, he tells you at the sketch, not at the change order, and draws you the version your family will enjoy for decades instead.

WHERE WE BUILD

Serving Nashville and Middle Tennessee

Our crews build across Davidson, Williamson, Wilson, and Rutherford counties: Nashville proper, including Belle Meade, Green Hills, Forest Hills, and Oak Hill, plus Brentwood, Franklin, Thompson’s Station, Mount Juliet, Gallatin, Spring Hill, Lebanon, Hendersonville, Smyrna, and Murfreesboro. From a tight lot near Green Hills to acreage outside Franklin, if your town is close, so is our team.

Nashville

Brentwood

Franklin

Thompson’s Station

Mount Juliet

Gallatin

Spring Hill

Lebanon

Hendersonville

Smyrna

Murfreesboro

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The Sketch Is Free

Fifty years of pool construction, one hand-drawn design at a time. Call Backyard Resort Pools or request your free quote, and we will create one of Nashville’s most inviting outdoor spaces on paper this week. The water is waiting.

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