We’re honored to be featured in the Los Angeles Times Studio section, where Sara Kitnick captured the momentum behind water features that feel architectural, emotional, and deeply lived-in.
Kitnick puts it simply. The right water feature doesn’t make a backyard “bigger.” It makes it yours. A sensory pause button. A soft interruption in a world that rarely stops vibrating.
And that’s the work we love most.
Our founder, Michael O’Brien, spoke to a truth we return to in every project: the best pools don’t feel installed. They feel inevitable.
Raised coping, board-formed concrete, curved edges that read more like pottery than construction…these aren’t trends for us. They’re tools for dissolving the line between built and wild. When the geometry softens and the materials carry a bit of history, water stops acting like a luxury and starts acting like landscape.
The article also calls out the softening of hard lines. Curved pool coping, subtle radiuses, and shapes that feel grounded in nature rather than drafted on a screen. When the geometry relaxes, so do you.
These nuances matter. They influence how you move and how you experience your outdoor space.
We’re grateful to the Los Angeles Times Studio for spotlighting this movement and for featuring the work we love most. Outdoor spaces should feel like extensions of your inner world: sculptural, calm, textural, lived-in. Water just helps unlock that faster.
To read the full Los Angeles Times Studio article, click here: Backyard Water Feature Trends. To explore our own approach to water features, visit the Hommes + Gardens water category.