Welcome to Legendary Escapes, a swimming pool design and building company, home of Ask the Pool Guy – Allan Curtis, as well as your source for swimming pool service in Southeastern Michigan.
Legendary Escapes’ Pool Scapes LLC brings your backyard fantasy to reality.
With a Design Philosophy of Water as Art, Legendary Escapes Swimming Pools have become an art form. The pools that are designed and built by Legendary Escapes Pool Scapes LLC offer homeowners a place to escape from reality. Our art incorporates elements into an environment that helps to enrich a customer’s world.
Each project of translating water into art is an evolving and creative process. It is creating art out of what was once sold purely as a product. Art is harmony, building something tangible.
Looking at art it takes you somewhere, evokes thought, and inspires feelings. Our pool projects transport people in the moment. They are based on aesthetics elements which will enrich, balance, and promote well-being while in our environment.
Some thoughts from our pool designer:
“I’ve been training for this challenge all of my life. Water has become a philosophy to me. How can I affect a customers world, how can I enrich a customers life by what I do? How can I take the concept of what we do and make it truly spectacular? It’s not driven by dollars and is possible at every economic level. It’s outside the box thinking. We operate outside the box. It’s about architecture. It’s about art history. It’s about bringing something to our homeowners, a part of something that has not yet been done or explored.”
Company Background
The team of Legendary Escapes Pool Scapes has been designing and installing swimming pools for over thirty-five years. We are a family owned company, who focuses on our customer’s needs and wants rather than trying to sell you a standard “package deal.” We feel your pool design needs to fit your family, lifestyle, and entertainment needs. Our focus is creating your backyard fantasy whether you seek simplicity or innovation. We install vinyl liner pools and have quite a variety of options to create that unique look just for you. All our waterfall and rock work projects are done in house and completely by hand. We custom design your project so it will be a unique and special addition to your way of life. Service and follow up of the swimming pools is provided by Pietila Pools Services, also staffed by an experienced team of pool professionals with decades of experience.
Pietila Pools is a name that is well known around Southeastern Michigan. Originally started as Pietila Bros., and involved in the roofing industry for quite some time, the Pietila name is recognized in the industry as a leader in backyard swimming pool design and building.
Al Curtis, Pietila Pools
The company was originally owned by Ernie Pietila. When Ernie decided it was time to retire, he went to two existing employees – and divided the company into two entities. Gary Pietila took over the Howell, MI Pietila Pools Store and Al Curtis, a long time employee, took over the Pietila Pools – Farmington Hills location.
The new leadership resulted in some changes for the Pietila Pools Farmington Hillls location. With a background in physics and art, Al Curtis was more interested in creating unique and interesting projects than just standard backyard pools, and began to transition the company into more creative backyard escapes, branding these as Legendary Escapes. The Pietila Pools store in Farmington Hills remained open until 2006 when the location was sold to a landscaping company, and the Farmington Hills Pietila Pools relocated to Brighton, MI – focusing on service of Michigan Swimming Pool clients, and the Legendary Escapes branded pools became the construction arm of the company.
Fast Forward to 2011 – where Al Curtis and Legendary Escapes continue to design and build award winning swimming pools in Michigan and partnering with the Pietila Pools Services to service swimming pool customers in Southeastern Michigan.
As the 2012 Season opens in Michigan, Allan Curtis, aka @AskthePoolGuy is the leading industry spokesperson on what’s new in the swimming pool industry, as well as a go to source for builders, suppliers, and swimming pool owners to get their questions answered!
Social Media for Customer Relationships
Part of a successful season includes answering homeowner questions and allowing for quick follow up. The links below will allow you to follow, like and listen to things going on in the local swimming pool market.
