North OKC enclave
Custom Pools for The Village, Oklahoma
The Village is not a neighborhood of Oklahoma City. It has been its own home rule city since 1959, and construction plans go to its Building & Code Department at City Hall on Manchester Drive rather than to an Oklahoma City office. That is the first thing a pool project here needs to know. The pools themselves are the work we do across the metro: custom gunite shells, concrete sprayed over a steel frame, plus remodels of the pools these homes came with.
Everything else holds steady across the metro. You can shape a pool to your own lot in the 3D Pool Design Studio before anyone calls you, and pricing arrives in writing after a free design and estimate at your address.
- City status
- Home rule city, incorporated 1959
- Permit office
- The Village Building & Code Department, 2304 Manchester Drive
- Service area
- Oklahoma City and nine nearby communities, The Village included
- First step
- A free design and estimate at your address
Right-sized for a mid-century yard
The Village started in 1949, when developer Clarence E. Duffner, Sr. bought forty acres of open land and gave the community its name. Duffner built homes in the southwest corner, Floyd Harrison built east near Pennsylvania Avenue, and by 1959 the neighborhood had incorporated as a city of its own. About 9,300 people live there today.
That vintage matters when you plan a pool. If your backyard is compact, the useful question is not whether a pool fits but what size earns its place. Because gunite is sprayed in place rather than cast as one piece, the shell is drawn for your lot instead of picked from a set of molds. Plunge scale means a smaller, deeper pool built for cooling off. Cocktail scale means shallower water sized for sitting and talking. Both stay full gunite builds, with benches along the wall, a tanning ledge, which is a shelf of shallow water you can lie on, plus jets and heat if you want them. Small does not mean stripped.
The other half of the work in a city this established is the pool that came with the house. A shell poured decades ago is usually still sound. What gives out is the plaster, the band of waterline tile at the surface line, and the coping, the cap around the edge. All three rebuild over the original structure. Our services page sets out what a remodel covers versus a retile and replaster, so you can place the job your pool actually needs before we ever see it.
From the project library
A straight edge that earns its furniture
Watch where the furniture ended up. Two orange chairs sit at the short end of this shell, their legs a stride from the coping, facing down the full length of the water. A straight edge makes that placement possible. A rectangle spends its footprint on swimmable water, then hands its clean sides to the deck, so seating lives at the pool instead of across the yard from it. None of that depends on size. In the studio you can draw this exact geometry over a photo of your own backyard in The Village, then pull the length in until the proportions feel right.
Draw this rectangle at your scale- Geometry
- Straight-edged rectangle with an inset spa
- Seating
- Two orange chairs set at the short end
- Finish
- Dark interior that reads deep blue in daylight
- Surround
- Pale stone deck with a planted lawn strip
Planning a pool in The Village
Who handles the permit for a pool in The Village?
The city does. The Village runs its own Building & Code Department out of City Hall at 2304 Manchester Drive, and it reviews permits for new construction and home renovation inside the city limits. Your pool plan goes to that office rather than to Oklahoma City, and digging waits until the permit clears.
Can a gunite pool work in a small backyard?
Yes, and it is often the best fit, because the shell is shaped on site instead of arriving as a one-piece mold. Plunge and cocktail layouts keep the water usable while giving up length, and benches, ledges, jets and heat still build in. Setbacks and utility easements decide the real limit, which is exactly what the free site visit establishes for your lot.
Our pool is as old as the house. Replace it or remodel it?
Usually remodel. Concrete shells age well. Surfaces do not. A remodel strips the finish, resets the waterline tile and coping, and can add lighting, a ledge or new equipment while everything is open. Whether your shell qualifies is a structural question, and we answer it in person at no charge, the same free visit we make anywhere on the service list in the footer.
Put a number to your backyard
Tell us your address in The Village and what you have in mind. We come out, measure the yard for ourselves, and send the number back in writing. Both the design help and the estimate are free.
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