LATEST ARTICLES

Well-designed exterior spaces are ideal places to lounge, and experts say homeowners are using porches more like interior rooms.

Architect Jennifer Gosnell says not one, but multiple outdoor living spaces are currently trending for home design.

Some homeowners in our area are fortunate enough to have picturesque older structures on their properties that preserve a sense of rustic history. Letting these sheds, shacks, chicken coops or outhouses sit idle, though, often means they’ll deteriorate and eventually be demolished.

Some outdoor living spaces have more capacity than others. Capacity to drive future spaces and how they are imagined, designed and lived in. The attention to detail on this deck, stone columns, exposed aggregate path slabs and especially the pergola, is stately and punctuated. This is space has that capacity, and more.

Designers have been describing gardens as outdoor rooms for decades.

wooden structures