Artisan Outdoor Living, Inc.

Who they are

Artisan Outdoor Living works out of Shady Nook Drive in Clermont, Lake County. Their Florida contractor license, CPC1460571, was issued in March 2024 and is current, and their domain dates from late 2022 — so this is a young company, roughly two to four years of trading depending on which date you take. They describe themselves as family-owned, which is their own account and not a matter of public record, and as licensed and insured: the license is real and current, insurance is not verifiable from outside any company, so ask for the certificate. The email address they publish sits on a different company's domain, which may mean a sister business or a rebrand — worth a question, not an alarm.

What they build

New pool construction, spas and hot tubs, screen enclosures, outdoor living work, and commercial pools alongside residential. The name is accurate: this is a firm oriented to the whole outdoor space rather than only the water, and the reviews bear that out — customers describe brick garden beds, decking, drainage and an outdoor shower as much as pools. That breadth is genuinely useful if you want one contractor for the whole backyard. It also means some of their work is landscaping, which is a different trade with different risks, and one review below turns on exactly that. They publish eight project photographs, and finish early on Fridays.

Where they work

Clermont and Lake County. They publish no separate pages for individual towns, so there is no documented service area — Clermont, Winter Garden, Groveland and the western side of the Orlando metro is the sensible reading, and anything further is worth confirming by phone. There was activity on the site earlier this month, though the last page they actually changed was a privacy policy in late 2025, so the website is maintained rather than worked on. For a company this young, references will tell you more than the site will.

What the record shows

Google has them at 4.9 from 171 reviews, and that is the strongest combination on this list: a near-perfect score held across well over a hundred and fifty customers, comfortably clear of the 4.52 Florida average, achieved in at most four years of trading. Five separate customers name their professionalism and five the quality of what was built, and both clear our reporting floor. The detailed accounts describe hard-working crews, active communication and care taken over the property itself while work was going on — that last one matters, because a builder who protects your garden while digging it up is telling you something about how they operate. No complaint theme reaches our floor of two customers naming the same specific thing, so there is no recurring problem to report. Two individual accounts are worth reading, and they are unusually specific. One is a two-star from a customer who calls them a terrific group of professionals providing great service — and then says about half of the many plants they installed never properly acclimated, and that they would not use them for landscaping again. That is a precise and fair distinction: praise for the construction, a warning about the planting. The other is a one-star describing poor work ethic and slow communication, which sits squarely against everything else on record. Against 171 reviews at 4.9 these are the tail. The practical conclusion is the one the two-star customer reached: if the job is pools, decking and structure, the record here is excellent; if it includes soft landscaping, ask who does the planting and what happens if it dies.