Furnished paver patio with an outdoor dining area and stone fire pit

Service area · East Cobb, GA

East Cobb Outdoor Living, Pool &Deck Experts

Pools, decks, retaining walls, and outdoor kitchens, planned by licensed landscape architects around Cobb County code and East Cobb's wooded neighborhoods.

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Serving East Cobb

Plan your East Cobb yard in 3D first

Sugar Hill Outdoors is an outdoor living contractor serving East Cobb, GA, from the swim-tennis streets off Johnson Ferry to the wooded lots near the Chattahoochee. Many homes here date from the 1970s to 1990s, so your deck builder often starts with the original deck. A licensed landscape architect studies your lot and shows you the finished yard in 3D.

Clipped hedges, green lawn, and curved garden beds at a stone home

For East Cobb families

Pools, decks, and outdoor kitchens for East Cobb families

One design team plans all four as a single yard, placing each piece with the others in mind.

Custom swimming pool with a raised stone water feature

Custom pools the whole family uses

Your pool builder adds a spa or waterfall and fences it for the kids. Cobb County sets a 5-foot barrier, and we book every inspection.

Custom pools
Wide wood deck with a view across mature trees

New decks for older homes

Your deck builder swaps the original 1970s to 1990s deck for Trex composite or wood. A dry room underneath adds shaded space.

Decks & under-deck systems
Stone outdoor kitchen bar with stainless grill and kamado cooker

Grill islands for neighborhood cookouts

A stacked stone Belgard outdoor kitchen keeps the cook beside the pool. Expect neighbors from Camden Place and Willow Point to wander over.

Outdoor kitchens
Brick garden wall with a stone cap beside a lawn and walkway

Retaining walls for usable space

Tiered block walls give you more flat lawn and patio space to use. We handle the engineer's sealed design Cobb County requires.

Retaining walls
Raised paver patio with a curved stone wall and fire pit seating

Picture it finished

Friday nights at your East Cobb place

It's Friday on a wooded lot off Johnson Ferry, and the swim team crowd heads straight to your pool after practice. Water spills from the stone wall into the pool while the grill heats up.

Up on the deck, parents talk under the treetops while the kids swim below. Later, everyone drifts down to the fire pit on the flagstone patio and stays until the kids get called home.

Why your yard fills up

  • Morning coffee happens on the upper deck, among the treetops.
  • Burgers come off the grill a few steps from the water.
  • The kids swim inside a fenced pool level you can see.
  • Friends pull chairs up to the fire pit once the pool empties.

Around East Cobb

Where you live in East Cobb matters

Lot size, HOA rules, and nearby creeks change from one part of East Cobb to the next, so your plan starts with your street.

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Johnson Ferry swim-tennis streets

Neighborhoods like Chimney Springs off Post Oak Tritt have HOA review and homes from past decades. As your deck contractor, we submit clean drawings and plan the new deck around the original patio.

Indian Hills off Lower Roswell

About 1,680 homes sit on large, wooded lots in rolling hills here. Tiered walls turn a falling yard into usable levels, with tiers set 5 feet apart per county rules.

Paper Mill Road estates

Atlanta Country Club Estates lots run from about half an acre to 7 acres, with shaded backyards. That space lets your pool builder draw a pool, pavilion, and kitchen as one plan.

Columns Drive and the river

The Chattahoochee corridor reaches 2,000 feet from each bank, with a 150-foot setback for hard surfaces. Your patio and pool are placed beyond that line.

Along Sope Creek and its branches

Cobb keeps a 50-foot natural buffer on streams, plus a 25-foot setback for paving beyond it. We map your creek line before the first sketch.

Sandy Plains Road

The Village at Sandy Plains is a newer gated community with freshly graded yards. We set up gate access with the community and plan your backyard from scratch.

Permits and paperwork

Who approves an East Cobb project

East Cobb homes carry a Marietta mailing address, and their permits run through Cobb County Community Development. A retaining wall goes in with a sealed engineer's design and a site plan showing walls, lot lines, and easements. Our licensed landscape architects prepare that package and file it for you.

Why homeowners choose us

One team from drawing to cleanup

We've designed and built outdoor living spaces across North Georgia since 1997.

Two licensed landscape architects

Georgia protects the landscape architect title by law. Two of ours design your yard, and the permit-ready plans belong to you.

One license covers every trade

Pool, masonry, carpentry, electrical, and planting all sit under a single contract, with one person to call throughout.

Atlanta's first Belgard Master Craftsman

Belgard grants this title for a documented record of completed hardscape work, and we earned it first in Atlanta.

Paid as phases finish

Each draw follows a finished construction milestone, so you pay for work already standing in your yard.

Brick outdoor kitchen and pizza oven across a landscaped lawn

In a client's words

A client on replacing an older deck

“We had been procrastinating for years on replacing our now 26-year-old deck. I knew I wanted it covered... I knew immediately that this wasn't a 'stock' design that was just thrown up.”
Roy GrauGoogle review

East Cobb and Cobb County questions

Answers to what East Cobb homeowners ask before a backyard project.

Cobb County reviews retaining walls through a dedicated permit application. It calls for a design sealed by a Georgia engineer and a site plan with wall heights and lot lines. The exposed face near a property line tops out at 6 feet, and tiered walls sit at least 5 feet apart. We prepare the full package.

Cobb County does. East Cobb is unincorporated, so a Marietta mailing address still routes your permit to Cobb County Community Development. We file it with your plans and schedule the inspections.

Look for licensed landscape architects who design the pool in 3D and one contract that covers every trade. We've built about 60 pools since 2010, and you pay as each construction milestone finishes.

Swim-tennis and gated neighborhoods across East Cobb commonly have an architectural review. We supply scaled drawings and a 3D rendering, so your application goes in complete.

Cobb County asks for a barrier at least 5 feet tall around most residential pools. Openings stay under 4 inches, the bottom sits within 2 inches of the ground, and gates self-latch. The county inspects every new and remodeled pool, and as your East Cobb pool contractor, we schedule each visit.

Yes, with the right placement. The river corridor runs 2,000 feet from each bank, with a 50-foot natural buffer and a 150-foot setback for hard surfaces like patios and pool decks. Your landscape architect sites everything past that line.

Yes. Many East Cobb homes from the 1970s through the 1990s still have their first deck. As your East Cobb deck contractor certified by Trex, MoistureShield, and Deckorators, we design the new one in wood or composite, with custom railings and an optional dry, finished room underneath.

Our custom pools typically start at $200 per square foot, priced on the full scope. An 800-square-foot pool, about 20 by 40 feet, starts near $160,000 before additions like a hot tub or waterfall. At your consultation, your pool contractor turns that into a price for your lot.

Helpful East Cobb resources

Cobb County Residential PermittingCobb County Pool and Spa InspectionsCobb County Stream Buffer Maps

Walk through your East Cobb yard in 3D

Book a design consultation with your East Cobb outdoor living contractor. A licensed landscape architect visits your lot, draws the yard in 3D, and revises it with you until it matches what you pictured.

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