Pools & Spas in Anna
Gunite pools and spas planned with the deck, shade and kitchen.
Outdoor Living in Anna, TX
Outdoor living is the covered patio, pool, kitchen, stone and lighting that make a backyard part of the home. Longhorn designs and builds them together for Anna homeowners in Collin County, with one family-owned team.
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Before you build in Anna
Anna is on State Highway 5, Farm Road 455, and the Southern Pacific Railroad, eleven miles northeast of McKinney in north central Collin County. Collin McKinney himself settled within a few miles of the future townsite in 1846.
That ground decides how a slab, a pool shell or a footing has to be built here. Here is what it does to a patio.
We file the permit with the city or county office that covers Anna and follow it through review, so the schedule doesn’t stall on paperwork.
Longhorn has built across Collin County and the wider Metroplex since 1984, and every project starts with a free design visit and a firm price.
Outdoor living we build in Anna, TX
Outdoor Kitchens in Anna
Stone islands, built-in grills, fridges and a real vent hood, under cover.
Patio Covers in Anna
Solid-roof shade over the patio. It’s the simplest way to use it year-round.
Pergolas in Anna
Fixed or louvered, built to your slab, the yard’s centerpiece.
Sunrooms in Anna
Glass walls under a solid roof. Real square footage, light all day.
Patio Enclosures in Anna
Screened rooms: the breeze and the view, none of the mosquitoes.
Hardscaping in Anna
Travertine, pavers, seat walls and fire pits, with drainage solved first.
Landscaping & Lighting in Anna
Water-wise planting, irrigation and lighting for North Texas.
Outdoor living ideas for Anna homes
Homes and Yards in Anna
John F. Greer, who arrived in 1867, built the first home and store. The Houston and Texas Central Railway came through in 1873. Sources differ on whether it was named for Greer’s daughter or for an Anna tied to the railroad.
In a small railroad town, a covered patio planned around the home’s rooflines, with space set aside for a later grill or fire feature, leaves room to add on.
Collin County lies at 450 to 700 feet above sea level, and the East fork of the Trinity River drains its western and central portions. The growing season extends for 237 days.
Water comes from the City of Anna, which treats surface water.
When Anna was platted in 1883 it had a population of twenty, two stores, a steam gristmill, and a Baptist church, and a post office opened that year. Anna’s first bank, the Continental Bank, was organized in 1902. The town incorporated in 1913 with Greer as its first mayor.
Two years later the Greenville and Northwestern Railway was built between Anna and Blue Ridge via Westminster, but the line was abandoned in 1920. The population was 538 in 1929 and 467 in 1931. In the mid-1980s Anna had 855 residents, and the population was 904 in 1990.
NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 310 hail reports in Collin County from 2016 to 2025, 265 of them an inch across or larger, with stones up to 5.25 inches. 11 of those reports were logged at Anna itself, the largest 1.75 inches. The same records show 108 damaging thunderstorm wind reports, with gusts up to about 85 mph, and 9 tornadoes. That is why a patio cover’s roof panels, fasteners and posts here are chosen for hail and wind, not only for shade.
What each outdoor project needs in Anna, TX
How is a pool built in Anna?
Blackland Prairie clay swells through a wet spring and shrinks hard by August, and a pool shell is a rigid object sitting in ground that moves around it. Here that means the shell, the beam and the deck are engineered for that movement from the drawing stage, and the flatwork gets its control joints placed on purpose rather than wherever the pour ends. In Anna the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Anna, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on pools.
What does a patio cover need in Anna?
Blackland Prairie clay lifts and drops with the season, so a patio cover’s footings are the whole job. Posts set in shallow pads move with the top of the soil and take the roofline with them; footings taken below the active zone, tied to a slab that drains away from the house, do not. In Anna the permit goes through the city or county office that covers Anna, and Longhorn files it and follows it through inspection. More on patio covers.
How is a pergola built to last in Anna?
On Blackland Prairie clay a pergola’s posts are what decide whether it still stands square in five years. The clay moves most in the top few feet, so footings go deeper than the movement rather than resting in it, and the slab underneath gets its own drainage plan. More on pergolas.
Can a sunroom or screened enclosure be added in Anna?
A sunroom or screened enclosure in Anna is attached to the house, so it is permitted through the city or county office that covers Anna and sits on footings designed for the ground under it. We match the roofline and the exterior to the house so it reads as part of it. More on sunrooms and patio enclosures.
Anna outdoor living questions
Almost always, for pools and for anything attached to the house, including patio covers, sunrooms and enclosures. Longhorn files the permit with the city or county office that covers Anna and handles the inspections, so the schedule does not stall on paperwork.
Anna sits on Blackland Prairie ground in Collin County. The ground decides how a slab, a pool shell or a footing has to be built, so we plan the drainage and the footings for it at the first visit rather than after something moves.
Other cities we build in near Anna
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Hardscaping
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Patio Covers
Outdoor Kitchen Countertop Materials in Frisco, TX
Granite, porcelain, quartzite and quartz all behave differently in Frisco sun, freezes and clay. Here is a pick by exposure, a sealing test, and what the base under the stone needs.
Patio Covers
HOA Approval for a Patio Cover in Texas: DFW Guide
The HOA and the city are two separate approvals, and the HOA usually comes first. Here is the packet a DFW committee wants, how long it takes, why it says no, and how to answer a denial.
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