Lily Shore

The indoor swimming pool I keep saving on my boards never looks like a hotel basement with lane ropes. It looks like a designed room that happens to hold water. Concrete that feels intentional. Wood that warms the grey. Glass…

I used to think backyard pool decor meant buying one louder float and calling it a vibe. Then I spent a July weekend at a friend’s place outside Portland where the water looked fine, but the deck felt unfinished. No…

A dream backyard pool is not the one that looks richest in a single photo. It is the one your people actually use on a Tuesday: kids in the shallow end, adults with a real place to sit, snacks that…

When people search pools backyard inground, they usually want the shell decision, not another pillow roundup. Inground means the water is built into the yard: shape, depth changes, edges, and built-in features that you cannot fake with decor later. That…

I treat backyard pool landscaping like architecture first. Plants matter, but the bones decide whether the yard feels finished: paths, levels, walls, decking, and where people actually walk when their feet are wet. Softscape can bloom later. Structure has to…

I keep saving garden pool pins for the planting, not the float toys. If the water sits on a hard empty patio, it feels like a hotel courtyard someone forgot to finish. If beds, vines, and canopy wrap the edge,…