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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 [...]

Shout Out to the Shallow End – Unique Pool Steps and Ladders

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas, Swimming Pool Construction

The front door of your home makes a statement; whether it’s a casual screen door or the stately welcome of pillars and a portico. In the same manner pool steps and ladders are the entrée to your backyard’s centerpiece, so this entrance should also exhibit form, fashion, and function. Visual appeal in pool design is [...]

Sustainable

Sustainable Patio & Deck Renovations

Posted on September 22, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

We believe that every home improvement should reflect your style and personality. Whether you like the drama of fire bowls and waterfalls to surround your pool, or the simple tranquility of a natural swimming pond, your outdoor space’s aesthetics are decisions you don’t make lightly. This is your corner of paradise, so you want to [...]

Pool Loan Process And FAQs

Lyon Financial: Our Pool Loan Process & Frequently Asked Questions

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
Pool Financing

Whether your company offers a service or provides a product, process is everything. As a company in business since 1979, we have honed the Lyon Financial loan process to perfection. We understand that an effective process is one that: Sets clients’ expectations Considers the big picture but accounts for all the small, supporting details Clearly [...]

Signature Loans

LyFi Pool School 103: A Look at Rates & Terms

Posted on September 5, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
Pool Financing

Financing a home improvement can be one of the best decisions you make for your home and your family. As long as you align with a reputable company that takes your unique situation into consideration, you can make a conscious decision with confidence. At Lyon Financial, we have been helping homeowners improve their homes since [...]

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