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Backyard Improvements

Best Backyard Improvements That Add Value to Your Home

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

It’s a common statement that a home is the biggest investment most people make. Whether you’re already living in your “forever home” or still have more moves ahead, all of this will have impact on what types of improvements you make. If it’s your “forever home,” you can confidently forge ahead to paint the living [...]

Swim Your Way to Fitness Without Breaking a Sweat!

Posted on May 30, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas

Here’s a little food for thought about Americans and obesity rates. According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention): More than one-third (36.5%) of U.S. adults age 20 and older and 17% of children and adolescents aged 2–19 years were obese as of 2015-2016 (37.9% for men and 41.1% for women). Obesity-related conditions [...]

The Shape of Water: What Pool Design is Right for You?

Posted on May 17, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas, Swimming Pool Construction

In the world of fashion, silhouettes create impact. Whether demure or bold, the designer makes a statement. While hemlines and textiles go in and out of style, the latest trends are often a reinvention of a look that was the rage a decade or two ago. When it comes to your pool design, there’s a little [...]

Sunscreen Safety

The Right Rules of Sunscreen

Posted on May 9, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

Because an estimated one in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime, sunscreen is a critical component of skin and health care. Besides helping to deflect those brown spots and dreaded wrinkles, its use will allow you to protect yourself from the sun’s harmful UV rays… the ones that promote those dangerous skin [...]

The Salt Life – Should Your Pool Be Chlorine-Free?

Posted on May 2, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas, Swimming Pool Construction

What was once called the “world wide web” is now a search engine on a smart phone. This is how we shop and how we get answers to just about anything. Alexa and Siri are always on standby. Or we can type into a little, white box to get millions of results in under a [...]

Sustainable

Sustainable Patio & Deck Renovations

Posted on April 11, 2025 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 [...]

Patio

How to Create the Perfect Patio

Posted on March 21, 2025 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, [...]

pool house

Pool House Design Ideas

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

Warning: The effect of Googling “backyard home design” may cause dizziness. But it’s better to have choices, right? There are millions of configurations and styles and amenities that comprise one of the happiest of home amenities: that’s an outdoor entertainment center. And “center” is just the right word as this al fresco part of your [...]

Top 5 Safety Tips for Swimming

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas

While driving, responsible motorists keep their wits about them and their eyes on the road. They know not to let their digital dashboard distract them. If they use their phone, they do it hands-free or invoke the do-not-disturb feature so as not to receive alerts until they reach their destination. Defensive driving saves lives. Most [...]

10 Great Fire Pit Seating Ideas

10 Great Fire Pit Seating Ideas

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

If you’ve Googled around for this backyard amenity, you know that these gathering places have become a cherished outdoor staple. The reasons are good ones: they’re simple, they’re affordable, and they’re transformative. The Best Things About Fire Pits There’s the practical aspect of these al fresco nuances as in they generate heat. But outdoor fire [...]

Landscaping

Landscaping Your Backyard Paradise

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

Creating your home’s interior ambiance takes some planning to get the right lighting and furnishings to give purpose to each room. And yet there’s so much flexibility. Today, formal dining rooms are being transformed into game rooms or playrooms for the kids, guest rooms into home offices, and second bedroom suites and basements into supporting [...]

Outdoor Kitchen

Creating Your Alfresco Escape: The Best Outdoor Kitchen Ideas

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

“Bringing the outdoors in” has long been a favorite technique of interior decorators. Large windows free of heavy fabric treatments allow floods of natural light to bathe a room. Adding greenery and even natural materials (bamboo, stone, wood) are elements that will also liberate your floorplan. With these 9 Ways to Bring the Outdoors Inside [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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