Custom Luxury Pools throughout the East Bay

Award-winning design, craftsmanship, and personal service from Nicco and Chuck Baumann.

For over 71 years and across three generations, Creative Environments and the Baumann Family has designed and built luxury swimming pools and outdoor living spaces throughout the San Francisco Bay Area including Danville, Alamo, Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Orinda, Piedmont, Napa, and beyond.

We specialize in fully custom, high-end pools and backyard environments that reflect your lifestyle and enhance your home. Whether you're envisioning a modern infinity edge, a natural retreat, or a fully integrated outdoor living space, we bring your vision to life with precision, premium materials, and expert craftsmanship.

Every project is personally led by Nicco and Chuck Baumann and built by our trusted in-house crew—ensuring a seamless experience, personalized service, and uncompromising quality from start to finish.

Custom Pools & Spas
Fully custom designs that blend architecture, landscape, and lifestyle — built for the way you live.

Outdoor Living & Hardscapes
Complete backyard environments with patios, fire features, retaining walls, and gathering spaces that extend your home outdoors.

Hillside & Elevated Builds
Expertly engineered pools on steep slopes and tight-access lots — projects that demand advanced planning and precision.

Full Backyard Transformations
From concept to completion, we handle every detail in-house to deliver cohesive, lasting outdoor spaces.

A luxurious backyard with a large swimming pool, hot tub, and outdoor seating area at sunset, overlooking rolling hills and a modern house.

Backyard pool area with a fire feature, outdoor seating, umbrellas, and lush greenery.

Backyard with a swimming pool, two orange Adirondack chairs, an umbrella, landscaped plants, and a hot tub under a blue sky.

Night view of a luxurious backyard with a illuminated swimming pool, a stone hot tub, outdoor seating, trees, and a house with large windows and a decorative facade.

A backyard with a swimming pool that includes a hot tub, surrounded by rocks and plants. In the background, a covered outdoor kitchen area with a roof supported by white columns. There is a house on the right side, with large windows and a patio. Hil

A luxurious backyard with a lit swimming pool, patio, lounge chairs, fire pit, and hills in the distance during dusk.

Aerial view of a backyard with a swimming pool, hot tub, patio area with outdoor dining table and chairs, green lawn, and surrounded by trees and landscaping.

Backyard at night with a lit swimming pool, outdoor seating area with fire pit, large trees, and a single-story house with exterior lights.

A backyard with a swimming pool, hot tub, and patio seating area, surrounded by a wooden fence and neighboring houses, with hilly landscape and trees in the background.

Backyard with a swimming pool, patio area, two lounge chairs, trees, house, and a clear blue sky.

Backyard with a swimming pool, waterfall feature, and outdoor seating area surrounded by trees and fencing.

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“Chuck is by far the most talented pool builder in the East Bay. Creative Environments delivers the most top notch design, construction and execution for anything you can dream of for your backyard. I cannot recommend this company enough!!!”

A.C.

“Chuck Baumann, Creative Environments designs and constructs the most spectacular pools in the country, Chuck’s professionalism and attention to detail put him in a class of its own.”

Vance Gillette

“Chuck Baumann made putting in a pool easy. He did everything he said he was going to do on time and the quality is second to none. He treated our job as if it was his own pool being put in. His continued support after the job was finished really stands out. Best contractor I have ever worked with.”

A and M Mahler

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