You Bought a Pool. We Build the Summer Around It.

ILT Vignocchi designs and manages the entire pool environment, and the pool structure itself is built by longstanding specialty pool partners we have worked with for years. Our own crews handle everything around the water: terraces, grading, retaining walls, plantings, privacy screening, drainage, and lighting. You get one design, one schedule, and one point of accountability instead of coordinating a pool builder and a landscape company yourself.

Poolscaping is the design of everything surrounding a swimming pool: the terrace underfoot, the plantings that create privacy and shade, the lawn and gathering areas nearby, and the lighting that keeps the space usable after dark. A pool without poolscaping is a body of water in a yard. Poolscaping is what turns it into somewhere people spend the entire day. ILT Vignocchi has designed pool environments across Chicago’s North Shore, Chicagoland, and the Lake Geneva area since 1969.

Yes, and it is some of our favorite work. Many homeowners inherit a sound pool surrounded by a dated or unfinished yard, and that can be transformed without touching the pool itself. ILT Vignocchi assesses the existing decking, grading, and drainage first, then designs new terraces, plantings, privacy screening, and lighting around what is already there. The pool often looks new simply because everything around it finally does.

Complete pool environments are priced by scope rather than from a list, because the investment depends on grading, hardscape, planting, and how much of the property changes along with the water. Projects at this scale typically fall within our Heritage Series, and The Experience page lays out our three project levels so you can see where a project like yours would begin. You will have a clear number in hand before any design work is committed.