Nichols Hills is one of Oklahoma's most distinctive residential enclaves — classic Georgian, Tudor, and mid-century homes beside new custom estates, all under a mature tree canopy. SchindlerDesignCo. designs and builds luxury pools, spas, pool houses, and outdoor living environments that feel original to the property. Every project starts with a meticulous site analysis, a personal consultation with Reid Schindler, and detailed AutoCAD plans with 3D renderings before anything is dug.
A Nichols Hills pool should read as part of the home. We carry rooflines, materials, and proportion into the backyard with formal reflecting pools, geometric lap pools with attached spas, limestone or travertine coping, loggias, fire features, and pool houses. For contemporary estates we lean into clean lines, sheer descents, vanishing edges, and sunken lounges — always design-first, never a catalog shape dropped on the lot.
Large oaks and pecans define these streets, bringing root systems, shade, and leaf litter that a standard pool plan ignores. We evaluate trees early, plan excavation to protect the ones you want to keep, site the water for usable sun, and specify filtration and automation that handle seasonal debris. Full reconstruction of older estate pools is common here.
Nichols Hills is its own municipality with its own permit review. We prepare clear, scaled drawings and specifications for submittal, coordinate with your architect and landscape designer, and plan access and staging carefully on quiet residential streets.
Central Oklahoma's expansive clay soils swell when wet and shrink in drought — a common reason pools crack or pull away from their decks. As a PHTA Certified Building Professional and Genesis 3 Basic & Advanced Construction Graduate, Reid details the steel, shell, drainage, and deck so a luxury pool lasts through freeze-thaw winters and 100-degree summers — not just opening day.
Most Nichols Hills clients choose full Design / Build, where one team carries the project from first sketch to start-up. If you already work with a custom builder, Design / Consult provides AutoCAD plans, 3D renderings, and a specifications list for apples-to-apples bids, plus material guidance and job walks as needed.
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