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Palisades Poolscapes

Luxury custom pool and spa builder in Los Angeles. We strive to create an outdoor living experience that reflects your vision and values.

11/10/2026

One rectangle. Everything in it.

Bienvenida project in the Palisades — a clean rectangle that holds the whole program: a full-length pool, an integrated spa set inside the footprint at the far end, and the entry steps alongside it. No bump-outs, no wasted corners.

The spa shares the pool's geometry. A tiled dam wall separates the two waters, the pale stone coping runs unbroken around both, and the water reads deep blue across the whole surface — one plane, end to end.

Simple on paper. It only works if every line runs true.

Spa inside the pool, or set apart on its own — which would you pick?

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Palisades Poolscapes | Custom pools, built right

11/04/2026

The part nobody will ever see.

Before shotcrete, a pool is a cage — steel tied bar by bar and bent to the exact shape of the walls, benches, and floor. The cage is held off the dirt on blocks, so when the shell is shot, the concrete wraps every bar completely instead of leaving steel resting against the ground.

The plumbing goes in at the same stage. The skimmer, returns, and drains are set through the steel while everything is still open — once the shell goes on, none of it can move.

Then this whole grid gets checked, inspected, and covered for good.

The finish is what gets photographed. This is what the finish stands on.

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Palisades Poolscapes | Custom pools, built right

11/03/2026

Before the water goes in.

This is the moment most people never see — fresh plaster, still dry. Right now it reads flat grey. Once this pool fills, that same charcoal finish will read deep teal, and the blue waterline tile and flagstone coping will lock in around it.

Plaster is troweled by hand, wall to floor, in one continuous pass. There's no pausing, and no second coat to hide behind — the finish you see here is the finish you swim in for years.

Dry, it's just grey. Filled, it's the whole pool.

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Palisades Poolscapes | Custom pools, built right

10/30/2026

Rebuilding the Palisades, one backyard at a time.

After the fire, a lot of backyards in our neighborhood started from bare ground again. A cleared lot, permits to work through, and a decision: put back what was there, or build it better this time.

Excavation, steel, shotcrete, the shell taking shape — the same craft as any build, but these aren't just pools. They're the first piece of a home coming back.

We're a Palisades builder, and this is our neighborhood too. If you're starting a rebuild, DM us or call 323-377-5574 — glad to walk the lot with you.

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Palisades Poolscapes | Custom pools, built right

10/28/2026

Your pool is a loop, not a bathtub. 🔄

Every drop gets pulled from the surface skimmer and the main drain, then pushed through the pump, cartridge filter, heat pump, and UV + ozone sanitation before the return jets send it back — clean, warm, and crystal clear. The full loop turns over in about 4–6 hours, all day, every day.

We spec Pentair equipment and an ozone + UV sanitation system (never salt) on every build — better water, less chlorine, and gear that lasts.

Questions about your pool's equipment? Drop them below. 👇

10/27/2026

After dark, the pool becomes the room.

Daylight shows the build — the lines, the tile, the finish. Night is when you find out if the lighting was designed or just installed. This one was planned from the shell up: lights placed for the length of the pool and the raised spa, so the water reads as one even glow instead of a few bright spots.

Same pool, two settings — clean white, then deep blue. The finish doesn't change. The whole yard does.

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Palisades Poolscapes | Custom pools, built right

10/23/2026

The shell is in.

This is the moment a pool stops being a hole in the ground. The shotcrete is shot, the steps and benches are shaped, the spa is formed — and the shell sits curing while it gains its strength.

Nothing about this stage is decorative, and that's the point. The lines set here are the lines the tile, coping, and plaster will follow for the life of the pool. Get the shell true, and everything after it can be precise.

Next comes the finish work. This is where it starts.

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Palisades Poolscapes | Custom pools, built right

10/21/2026

Plaster decides the water color.

The water itself is clear — the color you see is the finish underneath it, filtered through depth and sun. White plaster gives you bright aqua. Blue pushes it deeper. Charcoal goes to deep teal, still and lagoon-like — the read behind the dark finishes in our recent remodel posts.

And it never sits still: lighter on a shallow shelf, darker in the deep end, different at noon than at dusk. That's why plaster gets chosen for the whole yard — the coping, the stone, and the planting around it — not from a swatch alone.

Pick the water you want to live with. Then pick the plaster that makes it.

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Palisades Poolscapes | Custom pools, built right

10/16/2026

Built into the landscape.

Not every pool should look placed on the yard. This one was finished to sit inside it — dark plaster that reads deep teal under the trees, flagstone decking, boulders at the water's edge, and a raised spa wrapped in stacked stone.

The water stays the quiet part. Stone, planting, and shade do the rest — no hard lines competing with the garden around it.

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Palisades Poolscapes | Custom pools, built right

10/14/2026

From the ground up.

Before there's a pool in Bel Air, there's this: a hole cut to exact depth, string lines pulled tight, and plumbing set into the walls while everything is still dirt.

Excavation and rough plumbing don't photograph like a finished pool. But every clean line and every finish that follows starts here — get the groundwork wrong, and nothing on top of it can be right.

Steel and shotcrete are next.

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Palisades Poolscapes | Custom pools, built right

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