Timber poolside pavilion, stone patio, and circular fire pit in a wooded backyard

Service area · Cumming, GA

Cumming Pools, Decks &Outdoor Living

Pools, decks, outdoor kitchens, and patios, planned by licensed landscape architects for Cumming's new neighborhoods, homes west of town, and the city permit process.

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Designed for city lots

Plan your Cumming yard in 3D, then build

Sugar Hill Outdoors is an outdoor living contractor serving Cumming, GA, from homes near the square to neighborhoods along Pilgrim Mill Road. A licensed landscape architect studies your grade, setbacks, and easements on site. You review the finished yard in 3D, and we build exactly what you approved.

Stone garden wall and mixed planting beds around a landscaped home

For Cumming homeowners

Swim, grill, and gather in your Cumming backyard

Pools, decks, and outdoor kitchens for Cumming homes, planned around the way your family hosts.

Curved swimming pool and raised stone spa beside a covered pavilion

Custom pools sized to your yard

We add a spa or waterfall where it suits the yard. Inside city limits, your Cumming pool builder pulls the city pool permit.

Custom pools
Stainless steel built-in grill in a stone outdoor kitchen

Outdoor kitchens for big cookouts

A stacked stone Belgard grill island holds your grill plus a Big Green Egg or Blackstone. It fits in-town lots near City Center.

Outdoor kitchens
Raised wood deck with broad stairs and dark metal balusters

Decks toward Sawnee Mountain

Your deck builder adds level space right off the house in Trex composite or pressure-treated wood, with a finished dry room below.

Decks & under-deck systems
Patterned paver patio and broad stone steps beside a brick home

Patios for new neighborhoods

A paver patio sized for your table and chairs. In Berkeley Mill, we prepare the drawings for architectural review.

Paver patios
Furnished stone patio with a fire pit and pavilion beside a lake

Picture it finished

The Cumming house with the pool lights on

Picture a lot off Bettis-Tribble Gap Road, with Sawnee Mountain rising past the trees. The pool lights are on, the spa is warm, and the deck off the kitchen is full of friends.

Burgers come off the stacked stone grill island a few steps away. Once the kids climb out of the pool, everyone pulls chairs around the stone fire pit and talks until the pool lights click off.

What your weekends turn into

  • Neighbors walk over with a side dish and stay late.
  • The spa warms everyone up after a late swim.
  • Dinner moves out to the deck most nights.
  • The last guests finish the night at the fire pit.

Around Cumming

Where your Cumming home sits changes the plan

Lot size, slope, and HOA rules shift from one side of the city to the other.

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Near the square

Homes close to downtown sit on established lots with mature trees. Your pool contractor plans equipment access and root zones around neighbors close by.

Sawnee Village

North of downtown, this development is adding single-family homes on freshly built streets. Your plan starts from the builder's grading and any community design guidelines.

Bettis-Tribble Gap Road

West of town, the ground climbs toward Sawnee Mountain. Your deck builder and masons turn that rise into level decks and terraces you can use.

Pilgrim Mill Road

Berkeley Mill brings detached homes and an amenity area off this road. As your deck contractor, we prepare drawings for your community's architectural review before work starts.

Buford Dam and Sanders Roads

Ashton Woods is a conservation subdivision with shared open space near Lake Lanier. Your patio and walls stay inside your lot lines, clear of common ground.

Mary Alice Park Road

This road runs east from SR 9 to the city's park on Lake Lanier. Where a yard meets Corps-managed shoreline, every feature stays on your side of the line.

City permits

Inside Cumming city limits, the city issues permits

A Cumming mailing address covers far more ground than the city itself. Inside the limits, the City of Cumming Department of Planning and Zoning on Main Street reviews your project.

The city's fence and retaining wall permit asks for a site plan showing setbacks, buffers, and easements, with inspections along the way. Pools get their own city permit, which your pool builder files. We confirm your jurisdiction and prepare the drawings each office needs.

Why choose us

Cumming backyards, built by one team

Since 1997, we've designed and built outdoor living spaces across North Georgia.

Landscape architects on staff

Two licensed landscape architects, a protected title in Georgia, design your yard. The permit-ready plans they produce belong to you.

All trades under one contract

Our residential and light commercial license covers hardscape, electrical, plumbing, and carpentry. You work with one contact from first drawing to final cleanup.

First Belgard Master Craftsman

Sugar Hill Outdoors was Atlanta's first Belgard Master Craftsman, a certification earned through a documented record of completed installations.

Payments tied to progress

Each payment follows a finished construction phase, so you see the work in place before you pay for it.

Lakeside patio with wood lounge chairs and a square fire pit

From a Google review

Two patios built for grilling and guests

“Two patios were installed on the outside so there's plenty of space for grilling and guests as well as beautiful plants and shrubs to complete the perfect look. All the employees at Sugar Hill Outdoors were hardworking, courteous and professional.”
Janet KeeverGoogle review

Before you build in Cumming

These come up most when Cumming homeowners start planning.

Yes. Inside city limits, the City of Cumming issues a fence and retaining wall permit. Your application includes a site plan with setbacks, buffers, and easements, and the city inspects the work. We engineer every wall taller than 4 feet and build it to those plans.

Yes. Every custom pool inside city limits gets its own City of Cumming residential pool permit, and pools follow the International Swimming Pool and Spa Code with Georgia amendments. Georgia calls for a barrier at least 48 inches tall with self-closing, self-latching gates. As your Cumming pool contractor, we handle the permit and inspections.

Your patio, fire pit, and walls belong on your own lot, above the Corps line. The US Army Corps of Engineers manages the shoreline, and steps or utility lines down to the water need a Corps permit. We confirm where your property ends before we design.

In many newer Cumming neighborhoods, yes. Communities with shared amenities often run an architectural review. We prepare complete drawings and a 3D view for your submission, so the board can see the full plan.

Ask who designs it and who answers for each trade. Our licensed landscape architects draw your pool in 3D, and one contract covers the whole build. We've finished about 60 pools since 2010, with payments tied to milestones.

The City of Cumming publishes a boundary map, linked below. Many Cumming mailing addresses sit in unincorporated Forsyth County, where the county's Department of Building and Licensing issues permits. We confirm your office before design begins.

Yes. Sloped lots west of town suit terraced patios, retaining walls, stone steps, and decks. A licensed landscape architect walks your grade and shapes each level so water drains away from the house, and as your Cumming deck contractor, we frame the upper level.

Our outdoor kitchens range from about $5,000 to $100,000. Your appliances, island size, and finish decide where yours lands, and your consultation turns that into a firm number.

Walk through your Cumming yard in 3D first

Book a design consultation with Sugar Hill Outdoors, your Cumming outdoor living contractor. A licensed landscape architect visits your lot and builds the design in 3D, and we adjust it with you until it matches what you pictured.

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