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Indoor Pools

Indoor Pools: The Answer to How to Swim in a Snowstorm

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

Outdoor kitchens, televisions, and crackling fireplaces have been at the heart of the trend to bring the indoors outside. Expanding viable living space to the often-uncharted territory of the backyard has allowed us to spend more time in the fresh air while enjoying every “in-house” amenity. The centerpiece of alfresco entertainment centers is typically a [...]

Secret Pools

The Beauty Behind Secret Pools

Posted on January 13, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

For over 45 years, we have watched the extraordinary journey of the backyard pool. What was once a simple rectangle that was too expensive a venture for many families has now transformed into a multi-dimension attraction of all shapes and sizes offering custom and prefab options at more affordable pricing. Before we dive into this [...]

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Pool Filters: How to Choose

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

Pools have several moving parts, and today most of those features can be controlled with a phone app. Yet another wonderful luxury, courtesy of technology! In your backyard paradise, your pool’s filter and pump are at the heart of it all. If the proper one isn’t installed or appropriately maintained, you’ll be swimming essentially in [...]

Workout

How to Get a Full Body Workout in Your Backyard Pool

Posted on December 30, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

There’s no doubt we are huge fans of outdoor pools. One of the best things about them is their versatility. Your pool can go from being a field for water sports, to a glistening centerpiece for a backyard wedding, to a relaxing Zen zone, to the most refreshing fitness center you’ve ever known! When it [...]

How to Elevate Your Pool with Water Features

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

From affordable to high-end, you can outfit your own personal Great Outdoors Resort with everything from changing cabanas to brick pizza ovens. You can then frame this oasis in lush greenery and vibrant blooms. But then there’s the in-between. That reflective ingredient that stands out, but blends in. The one that adds dimension and shine [...]

pollinator garden

How to Build a Pollinator Garden

Posted on December 8, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

As a society, we’ve become increasingly conscious of ways to preserve and protect our environment. We’ve learned to reduce, reuse, and recycle. We make sustainable choices in our flooring and our pool decking using materials like cork, bamboo, and concrete. We plant trees and contribute to compost piles. We try to conserve water and use [...]

Outdoor Kitchen

What Does an Outdoor Kitchen Need?

Posted on December 1, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

Perhaps it’s time to look to your backyard to find the serenity you seek – after a long day of work, meetings & helping the kids with homework! To branch out to leafier pastures, you may have already started with some DIY backyard landscaping. Or perhaps you finally took that partly shady, partly sunny stretch [...]

Maintenance Tips for Your New Pool: Annual Tasks

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

Because of their importance and the regularity with which you’ll be performing daily and weekly pool maintenance routines, you’re pretty unlikely to neglect them. To a lesser degree, ditto with the monthly ones. However, it can be easy to completely forget about the recommended annual pool maintenance tasks. Don’t worry: we have your back. Make [...]

Maintenance Tips for Your New Pool: Monthly & Occasional Tasks

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

Your new in-ground swimming pool will be able to bring you and your family and friends plenty of healthy, fun-filled memories for decades to come — but only if you make certain to continually maintain it properly. In addition to daily and weekly maintenance routines, you should also keep some other maintenance tasks on your [...]

Maintenance Tips for Your New Pool: Daily & Weekly Routines

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

As you plan for your exciting new addition of an in-ground swimming pool, you’ll want to plan for more than the financial aspect of your home’s newest feature: you’ll also want to prepare for the necessary maintenance tasks related to owning a pool. While this list may seem a bit overwhelming at first, you’ll be [...]

contemporary small pool backyard design

When Choosing a Swimming Pool Contractor…

Posted on November 7, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
Swimming Pool Construction, Swimming Pool Contractors

When choosing an in-ground pool contractor, there is so much to consider. Let’s start with the most critical factor: making sure you pick the right one! First, check out the contractor. Go into the Better Business Bureau website and see how that contractor’s business is doing. Look at their reviews and see if they have [...]

Patio

How to Create the Perfect Patio

Posted on October 31, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

When designing your outdoor living space, you can consider your patio as the glue that holds it all together. The ideal transition platform, it can either be connected directly to your home or accessible via a tiered staircase. Your patio also serves to introduce your yard and your backyard swimming pool. Typically an open space, [...]

Lap Pools

What’s So Great About a Lap Pool?

Posted on October 24, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

Today, backyard pools come in a myriad of shapes and sizes. Accompanying these shimmering meccas are exquisite structural nuances like swim up bars for sipping and Baja ledges for sunning. What’s also interesting in the pool design and construction business is that form continues to follow function, so to speak. The changing needs of American [...]

smart pools

Smart Pools and Our Even Smarter Pool Financing

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas, Pool Financing, Swimming Pool Construction

While Lyon Financial’s expertise is in providing exceptional customer service and the information you need to make an informed decision about pool financing companies, we also love the technology currently available in smart pools. Today, our mobile devices are dashboards. We can engage our home alarm system, turn the lights on, and set a recording [...]

What to Ask Yourself Before You Build a Pool

What to Ask Yourself Before You Build a Pool

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Construction

If you’re a homeowner, you know how gratifying home improvement projects can be! Yes, there’s the disruption and the dust, but it’s all a means to an end. Whether you are repurposing a loft into a home theater or building an addition off the family room to support your entrepreneurial pursuits, you are increasing the [...]

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