Water,
perfectly
still.

We design and build resort-grade pools for private homes on the Gold Coast — bespoke water architecture shaped around light, landscape, and the life you want to live outside.

17+ Years on the Gold Coast
340+ Pools completed
Free Design consultation
Luxury rooftop infinity pool at golden hour with lounge chairs and lush greenery
Broadbeach Waters, QLD
About the studio

Water architecture
for the Gold Coast

Bespoke design

Every pool begins with your block, your light, and your life — not a showroom catalogue.

Resort-grade finish

We use the same waterline tiles, Pebblecrete plasters, and coping stone as five-star hotel pools.

Full-service build

Design, engineering, certification, construction, handover — one studio, no sub-contractor runaround.

On-time delivery

340+ completed pools. Transparent milestones. You'll know where we are every week.

Stillwater was founded in 2008 by a Gold Coast architect who believed residential pools deserved the same spatial intelligence as any other room in the home. That conviction hasn't changed.

We work exclusively on the Gold Coast — Broadbeach Waters, Mermaid Waters, Benowa, Mudgeeraba, Palm Beach, Currumbin — because this city's light, its humidity, its salt air, and its block geometry demand local expertise. We know which soils need deeper footings. We know how the afternoon sun tracks across a north-east facing backyard in December.

Our team of eight combines architectural design, structural engineering, and a licensed construction crew. Every project passes through a single project architect from concept sketch to handover. No handoffs. No surprises.


What we build

Every pool is a
different brief

We don't build off a menu. We listen, then design something that couldn't exist on any other block.

01

Infinity & Negative-Edge

The visual boundary of water meets sky. We engineer the balance tank, overflow channel, and return system to work invisibly in the Gold Coast's 10–18°C temperature swing.

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02

Lap & Exercise Pools

25-metre competition geometry or compact 12-metre wellness pools with resistance jets — engineered for performance, finished for aesthetics.

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03

Plunge & Courtyard Pools

Compact, architectural. For inner-city blocks and courtyard gardens where space is tight but the brief isn't. Often paired with a deck-level coping flush to the surrounding stone.

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04

Resort & Acreage Pools

Statement pools for prestige properties and acreage lots. We integrate the pool, sun deck, shade pavilion, outdoor kitchen, and landscape as a single water architecture composition.

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05

Renovation & Replaster

Tired 1990s concrete shell? We resurface, re-tile, re-equip, and re-line existing pools so they look and perform like new — often in under four weeks.

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06

Smart Automation

Hayward Omni and Pentair ScreenLogic integration — control water chemistry, lighting, jets, and heating from your phone. We install; you swipe.

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How it works

From blank block
to finished water

Free site consultation

We visit your block, walk the orientation, review soil reports, and assess council DA requirements — all before you spend a dollar. We tell you what's genuinely possible, not just what looks good in a render.

Design & engineering

Your project architect produces concept drawings, 3D volume studies, and the structural engineering package. We refine until the design is exactly right — not close enough.

Council approval

We prepare and lodge your DA or CDC, manage responses, and hold the licence under QBCC. You sign the contract once the permit is in hand — no speculative approvals, no surprises.

Build & handover

Our own crew digs, forms, plasters, tiles, and commissions your pool. We hand you a completed pool file — every certificate, every warranty card, every chemical baseline — and walk you through the controls in person.

Most Gold Coast builds — from signed contract to water in the pool — complete in 14–20 weeks. We'll give you an honest programme at consultation.

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Selected work

Recent Gold Coast
commissions

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Broadbeach Waters, QLD The Lawson Residence Infinity-edge · 14 × 5m · White Pebblecrete · 2024
Mermaid Waters, QLD Palm Courtyard Pool Plunge · 6 × 4m · Slate tile · 2024
Benowa, QLD Currumbin Lap Pool Lap · 20 × 3.5m · Pebblecrete · 2023
Mudgeeraba, QLD Acreage Resort Pool Resort · 18 × 7m · Glass tile + coping · 2023
340+ Pools completed Since 2008
17yrs Gold Coast specialists Local knowledge, always
4.9 Google rating 116 verified reviews
100% QBCC licensed builds Full insurance cover
Client stories

What people say about Stillwater

We've lived on the Gold Coast twenty years and always assumed a proper infinity pool was out of reach. Stillwater came to the block, listened, and came back with a design we hadn't imagined. The build ran exactly on the programme they promised. The pool looks like it belongs to a five-star resort.
Sarah & Mark T. Broadbeach Waters · Infinity Edge Build, 2024
Our block in Mermaid Waters is tight — under 400m². Every builder I spoke to said a proper pool wasn't possible. Stillwater's architect came up with a courtyard plunge design that completely transformed the outdoor space. I use it every single morning.
James K. Mermaid Waters · Plunge Pool Build, 2024
We had a quote from two other companies before Stillwater. The others basically copied each other. Stillwater's proposal was completely different — and when we asked why, the architect walked us through the orientation logic for thirty minutes without a clock on it. That's when we knew.
Priya & Rohan M. Benowa · Resort Pool Build, 2023
Begin your design

Let's talk about
your pool

A free, no-pressure site consultation. We visit your block, answer your questions honestly, and leave you with a clear picture of what's possible — whether you choose Stillwater or not.

Free site consultation We visit your block at no charge and no obligation. No sales script — just honest assessment.
Response within one business day We'll confirm a time that works for you. Gold Coast only — no franchisee handoffs.
Transparent pricing from the start We quote the whole project — design, engineering, DA, construction — so the number you see is the number you pay.