Drone view straight down on a freeform beach-entry pool with granite boulders set in the water

Biodesign and lake design

We design water that looks like it was always there. Beach-entry pools, natural swimming pools, streams, and private lakes, planned for owners, architects, and builders.

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What we design

Water shaped by the land around it

Every project starts with the site. Where the water wants to sit, how it moves, what stone is already there, and how it stays clear without a fight.

A large freeform beach-entry pool with granite boulders, a lawn, and a covered patio

Biodesign pools

Resin-sand beach pools with a sand entry, rock set right in the water, and a shape that follows the yard. The liner holds the rock and flexes through freeze and thaw.

Still blue water with a granite boulder at the edge, open sky and hills beyond Stand-in photo

Lakes and ponds

Private lakes and large ponds, planned from the dig to the shoreline. This is where HiTide started.

A natural pool with a large granite boulder in the shallows and a cedar-sided house behind

Natural swimming pools

Swimming ponds with no chlorine. Plants and natural filtration keep the water clear, hidden in the landscaping instead of boxed in beside the pool.

A stream tumbling over granite boulders below a timber lodge, flowers on the banks

Streams and water features

Streams, waterfalls, and reflecting pools, shaped to the slope and built from stone that matches the site.

Where it started

It started with lakes in Texas

HiTide Designs began with lake work in Texas. Tyler Brown designed and built lakes there, and consulted for the owners and crews behind others.

A lake teaches you to read the land. You learn where water wants to settle, how it moves through the seasons, and how to keep it clear with design instead of chemicals.

The same thinking goes into every pool, pond, and stream we plan today.

Selected lake projects

Example
  1. Private lakeTexas Hill Country. Design and build.
  2. Ranch pond and shorelineCentral Texas. Design consulting.
  3. Community lakeTexas. Consulting for the builder.

How we work

From a first call to water on the site

A first call

Tell us about the property and the water you have in mind. We look at the site together on Google Earth and talk through budget.

A design

Shape, depth, rock, planting, and how the water stays clean, drawn for your site and your climate.

Build support

We work alongside your builder, or our sister companies build it. Either way we stay on the project until the water is in.

We work with homeowners, architects, landscape architects, and builders.

Drone view of a beach-entry pool with loungers, gravel, and a small cabin A planted pond with a boulder waterfall and red flowers A beach-entry pool in deep snow, the water open and clear A reflecting pool running under a glass walkway between two stone wings of a house

Our sister companies

We design it. Our sister companies build it.

HiTide is the design side. When it's time to build, two sister companies do the work.

Truckee Tahoe Pool & Spa Pools, spas, cold plunges and saunas, built across Lake Tahoe, Northern California and northern Nevada, from Truckee to Reno. truckeetahoepool.com Streamscapes Custom streams, waterfalls and water features for homes and businesses around Lake Tahoe. streamscapes.com

Tell us about your project

Send a note with where the property is and what you have in mind. Photos or plans help if you have them.

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