Pool House and Covered Outdoor Kitchen

A pool house with a full bath and covered outdoor kitchen, built tight to an existing pool without disturbing its plumbing or decking.

Footprint 16 × 32
Covered patio 380 sq ft
Bath Full bath + changing room
Ceiling Vaulted, cedar-wrapped
~11 weeks from layout to final walkthrough

Scope

What the job included.

Fixed scope, in writing, before a shovel hit dirt. Here is what that covered on this build.

Utility locates and potholing around existing pool plumbing
Footings and slab set above finished pool-deck elevation
Framed pool house with full bath and changing room
Covered outdoor kitchen with gas, electric, and water rough-ins
Brick and roof pitch matched to the main house

The challenge

The buildable spot sat a few feet off the pool edge, in a backyard with no machine access wider than a gate. Pool plumbing loops ran unmarked somewhere under the lawn between the equipment pad and the skimmers — hit one with an auger and the project starts with a pool repair. Grading was the quiet risk: a new slab beside a pool either sheds water away from the deck or feeds every storm into it. And a backyard building that does not match the house reads as a shed, no matter what it cost.

The solution

Layout started with what was already in the ground. We located and potholed the pool lines by hand before setting a single form, then placed footings where the holes said we could — not where the sketch preferred. The finish floor was set above the pool deck so water breaks away from both structures, with the gas, electric, and water for the outdoor kitchen sharing one trench along a corridor we had already cleared. Brick was matched to the house, the roof pitch carried over, and the covered kitchen was framed as an extension of the roofline rather than a bolt-on awning.

The outcome

The pool lines never got touched, the deck drains the way it did before we arrived, and the building looks like it was part of the original plan for the house. The full bath keeps wet traffic out of the main house all summer, and the covered kitchen extends the season on both ends.

Job photos

A closer look.

Word of mouth

In the owner’s words.

Client quote coming soon — collected at final walkthrough, published verbatim.

Client quote slot

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