Cave Creek
desert outdoor living.
Custom pools, outdoor kitchens, pergolas, hardscape, splash pads, landscape lighting, and Clearview frameless glass pool fencing — built specifically for Cave Creek homeowners.
Cave Creek's premier
outdoor living builder.
Cave Creek lots are different — wide, often sloped, frequently bordered by protected desert and Black Mountain views. They demand a builder who can engineer for hillside drainage, design for sightlines instead of fences, and build with materials that belong in the Sonoran high desert. AE Outdoor Living designs and builds custom pools, negative-edge spas, view-framing pergolas, outdoor kitchens, and full landscape architecture for Cave Creek, Carefree, and the surrounding foothills. We respect the land — and we build the kind of outdoor space that makes the most of why you bought the lot in the first place.
Local craft.
Built right.
Cave Creek architecture is Pueblo, Territorial, Modern Desert Organic, and Ranch — and the right outdoor space leans into that with rammed-earth tones, real flagstone, weathered steel, gabion accents, and shaded ramadas instead of polished resort-style glamour. We design for the land first and the pool second.
- Hillside and view-lot specialists — engineered retaining walls, multi-level decks, infinity-edge pools.
- Native Plant ordinance compliance and desert-respectful design — we don't bulldoze your saguaros.
- Custom pools, spas, splash pads, outdoor kitchens, pergolas, lighting, and Clearview glass fencing.
- Engineered drainage and erosion control for monsoon-season hillside sites.
- ROC-licensed across all four trade categories — no subcontracting the build out.
- Fixed-price quotes, lifetime structural shell warranty, full HOA and Maricopa County permit handling.
Cave Creek neighborhoods we know.
We handle the paperwork.
Whether your lot is in a strict HOA like Tatum Ranch or on county land with no HOA at all, you still answer to Maricopa County for permits, hillside development, drainage, and Native Plant ordinance. We handle all of it — county submittal, hillside review, drainage engineering, plant salvage, and final inspections.
What we've built
nearby.
Recent Cave Creek builds include a negative-edge pool with raised spa overlooking Black Mountain, a turf-and-ramada family yard in Tatum Ranch, an outdoor kitchen with gas firepit and view-framing pergola on Lone Mountain, and a full hillside backyard build with engineered retaining walls and a vanishing-edge pool in the Black Mountain Foothills.
Let's design the Cave Creek outdoor space your lot was made for.
Free in-home consultation, custom 3D design preview, fixed-price quote. Usually within 24 hours.