In backyards all across America, the summer landscape is once again blooming with above-ground swimming pools. According to the National Spa and Pool Institute, there are about 3.5 million of these ...

Q. Our pool and deck are 15 years old. The pool needs to be refinished, and the deck has a number of hairline cracks. Five years ago, we had an acrylic texture and paint put over the Kool Deck. The ...

Q. We have a pool that is about 1 1/2 years old. About half the tiles exhibit “crazing.” We researched this situation and learned that crazing is a crack in the glaze resulting from a difference in ...

Jane Heintz-Svela is an artist and that helps her understand the aesthetics of contrast, balance and symmetry. More important, she says, creative types can visualize how elements of a design will ...