Lucas Firmin Blog

Making upgrades around your home is fairly common. Kitchen renovations and other remodeling projects all provide an enhanced level of style, design, and technology. But what about renovating areas outside of your home? If you bought a home with a pool or built one several years ago, you may be interested in giving your pool a facelift.

Just because the sun goes down doesn’t mean that pool time needs to end. Whether you’d like keep swimming and stay out of the evening heat, or just want to enjoy an evening on the patio around your pool; pool lights provide comfort and safety. So, what do you need to know about pool lighting, and what are the latest options?

Perimeter overflow, vanishing edge, or infinity pools offer an enchanting and elegant design for a residential pool. Pool designs have rapidly evolved over the years.  Shapes, styles, materials, technologies, and more have allowed pool builders to bring your backyard oasis to the next level. Blurring the lines between the horizon of your pool’s construction and its border can be achieved with water in-transit effects. This look can be achieved in a variety of ways, no matter the shape, slope, or size of your yard.  

Adding water features to your gunite pool can add dramatic changes in your pool’s appearance as well as create a calming and appealing ambiance.  The type of water feature you add to your pool is a personal choice based on how you want your pool to feel and function.  Here are four features that we commonly see added when building a pool.  

When it comes to building a residential pool, you have a lot of options.  While some pool companies may limit you to a pre-determined number of selections, this is common for fiberglass pools, custom designed gunite pools offer limitless possibilities.  Your pool builder can create a design that meets your needs.  Here are five different custom pool designs and what they offer.  Of course, these can modified to make your pool unique to suit your taste.