The journal

What Twenty Years in This City Taught Us

Straight writing about designing, building and owning a pool on the Gulf Coast. No brochure copy, no numbers we cannot stand behind.

The Dirt Under Your Backyard Has Strong Opinions About Your Pool

Two pools, two identical budgets, two different outcomes five years later. The difference was buried four feet down before anybody poured a thing.

The gorgeous pool that nobody swims in is a Houston specialty. Here is what separates a backyard people actually use from an expensive water feature.

A pool build is not one project. It is eleven small ones stacked end to end, and the weather gets a vote on most of them.

Enough reading

Articles are useful up to a point. After that it is about your lot, your soil, your access and your budget. That conversation is free.