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How to Keep Some Summer in Your Winter – Part 3: Fireplaces

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

If you’ve already expanded your living space to include the outdoors, then you know what an amenity-fueled backyard does for your relaxation and entertainment pursuits! The only potential downside is that there’s not much climate control! So, you may think you need to shut down this oasis for the winter. There are however cost-effective ways [...]

How to Keep Some Summer in Your Winter – Part 2: Fire Pits

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

Here we are in the throes of winter after a year like none other. Many of us have tapped into our creative side to find ways to keep the kids entertained and ourselves from going nuts! And if social media is any barometer, people all over the world stepped up to the plate to make [...]

How to Keep Some Summer in Your Winter – Part 1: Hot Tubs

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

Welcome to our four-part series about how to infuse some warm summer fun into the frosty winter months! Fortunately, with today’s al fresco amenities, there’s no need to turn your back on your outdoor entertainment center. Instead, you can keep that party going year-round! We start this series with a fan favorite: hot tubs. Hot [...]

Eight Great Backyard Entertainment Ideas

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

Yes, we have all felt sequestered this spring, summer, fall, and now into winter. But as Americans, we are incredibly resilient. Out of sheer necessity we have found a plethora of ways to entertain ourselves. While Netflix was a short-term solution, this year, many looked no further than beyond their sliders to the Great Outdoors. [...]

Luxury Pool Decking

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Britt Godfrey
Swimming Pool Construction

If you gave ten interior designers a room to decorate in contemporary decor, you’d get ten different takes on what they believe makes a room functional and fashionable. It’s the same with backyard pools (and snowflakes!). No two are alike. Even if every pool in your neighborhood were rectangularly shaped, they would each boast a [...]

Backyard Birdwatching 101

Posted on December 21, 2020 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

Known as “birding” The National Audubon Society states there are 47 million birders in the United States alone. There are also as many tips online of how to bird. These winged creatures are fascinating. The next time you’re at a traffic light, look up to the electrical wires and watch how they land with military [...]

Celebrating Christmas in the Tropics

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

Most holiday cards (and even movies!) depict snow-sprinkled landscapes and horse drawn sleighs. Sometimes it’s cozily clad merrymakers ice skating to Christmas carols. These traditional scenes certainly make it “feel like Christmas” full of fa-la-la-la-las. Now cut to the seasonal revelers in places like Florida and California. Although there’s not a snowflake in sight, that [...]

What Does an Outdoor Kitchen Need?

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

Many of us are still working from home and/or overseeing our kids’ education from the kitchen table. Although your long-awaited trip to Tahiti may be on hold, perhaps it’s time to look to your backyard to find the serenity you seek — after a long day of 6th grade math! And Zoom meetings! To branch [...]

How to Build a Pollinator Garden

Posted on November 20, 2020 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 [...]

The Advantages of Fiberglass Pools

Posted on November 13, 2020 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Construction

There’s nothing like a shimmering backyard pool. It offers an invitation to sun, swim laps, cool off, and even win your neighborhood’s aquatic volleyball championship! Like a multi-purpose arena, you can change the way you relax and even how you get those fitness blocks into your week when you have a pool just outside the [...]

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How to Keep Some Summer in Your Winter – Part 3: Fireplaces

How to Keep Some Summer in Your Winter – Part 2: Fire Pits

How to Keep Some Summer in Your Winter – Part 1: Hot Tubs

Eight Great Backyard Entertainment Ideas

Luxury Pool Decking

Backyard Birdwatching 101

Celebrating Christmas in the Tropics

What Does an Outdoor Kitchen Need?

How to Build a Pollinator Garden

The Advantages of Fiberglass Pools

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