Soake® Pools, Designed for Serenity

The right pool type comes down to lot size, budget, how custom the shape needs to be, and how long you are willing to be under construction. Fiberglass pools arrive as a finished shell, install faster than poured options, and carry a manufacturer's lifetime guarantee through Magic Landscaping's Authorized Leisure Pools Installer status. Soake® plunge pools are precast concrete units that combine a pool and a hot tub in a compact footprint, which makes them workable on tight Bergen County lots and usable year-round. Concrete pools allow full customization of shape, depth, and features but take the longest to build. Vinyl pools offer custom shapes at a lower cost than concrete, with a liner replaced periodically over the life of the pool. Magic Landscaping works through those tradeoffs against the actual property rather than starting from a catalog.

Magic Landscaping installs fiberglass and Soake® plunge pools directly as an authorized installer for both, and partners with experienced pool builders on concrete and vinyl projects while managing the design, the schedule, and the surrounding landscape. Being direct about that split matters, because a company claiming to self-perform every pool type is usually subcontracting something and not saying so. On collaborative builds, Magic serves as design lead and project manager, which means one point of accountability across the pool trade, the masonry, the plantings, and the lighting. Homeowners looking strictly for a pool shell with no landscape scope around it are better served going directly to a pool contractor.

Homeowners who have already selected a pool contractor can bring Magic Landscaping in as the design lead and project manager for everything surrounding the pool. That role covers the patio and coping, grading and drainage, plantings, lighting, fire features, and the coordination between trades so the pool does not end up sitting in an unfinished yard. Pools are frequently sold and built without a plan for the rest of the space, which is how backyards end up looking assembled rather than designed. Bringing the landscape plan in before excavation is considerably easier than working around finished concrete.

Pool restoration is often the better option when the shell is structurally sound but the surface, coping, decking, or surrounding landscape has aged out. Magic Landscaping designs around what is worth keeping, updates materials and features, and coordinates with pool professionals on the technical work. Restoration typically means new surfaces, updated outdoor living space, current lighting, and refreshed plantings instead of a full excavation and rebuild. Whether it makes sense depends on the condition of the shell and the equipment, which is the first thing assessed during a site visit.