Lauren has six years of experience writing and editing home improvement content. She covered lifestyle, DIY, design and cleaning at The Spruce for five years and contributed home improvement pieces to ...

It used to be that every backyard swimming pool looked just about the same. Everybody relied on the same product to keep the deck around the pool comfortable under bare feet: Keystone Kool Deck. Today ...

Of all the seemingly innocuous, misleading phrases that real estate agents sprinkle into their listings copy, “room for a pool” is the one that always sends me into a spiral. It implies that luxurious ...