Guides, comparisons and practical advice about Outdoor Living.
Outdoor LivingBuying Guide
Artificial turf solves shade, wear and mud where grass struggles. It also gets far hotter than grass in full sun, needs a proper drainage base and regular rinsing. In Florida, both sides of that trade-off are unusually strong.
Outdoor LivingBuying Guide
In Florida, a fire pit is used on a few cool evenings a year and looked at on all the others. That changes the choice: fuel, where it sits relative to the lanai, pool and screen, and whether it should run on the gas you already have.
Outdoor LivingPlanning
Enclosing a lanai can mean anything from new screen to a glass room with its own air conditioning. The level you choose decides the permit, the structure, the cooling and whether the room will ever count as living space.
Outdoor LivingPlanning
Good landscape lighting starts with what you want to see from the lanai at night, not with a box of path lights. The design choices, fixtures, transformer and wiring follow from that, and in Florida the fixtures have to survive heat, rain and sprinklers.
Outdoor LivingPlanning
An outdoor kitchen in Florida lives in humidity, sideways rain, salt air near pools and afternoon sun. The materials that last are chosen for that exposure first, and the gas, water and power runs are planned before anything is built.
Outdoor LivingMaterials
A paver patio fails from the bottom up. The pavers you pick matter far less than the compacted base beneath them, the edge that holds them in place and where the water goes when an afternoon storm hits.
Outdoor LivingComparison
A pergola filters sun, a louvered roof opens and closes, and an insulated cover blocks sun and rain like a room. In Florida the choice is also structural, because each one carries wind differently and connects to the house differently.
Outdoor LivingMaintenance
Screen wears out long before the aluminum frame does. Sagging panels, brittle mesh and popped spline mean it is time to rescreen, and the mesh you choose next changes visibility, airflow, insects and how the cage handles wind.
Outdoor LivingMaterials
Light-colored travertine is one of the more comfortable surfaces around a Florida pool, but it is a porous, acid-sensitive stone. How it is finished, sealed and cared for decides whether it still looks right in ten years.
Outdoor LivingHow-To
Standing water in a Central Florida yard is rarely solved by the first drain someone suggests. Find where the water comes from and where it is allowed to go, and the right fix usually becomes obvious.
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