Outdoor Living
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12 Tips for Designing Your Ideal Outdoor Living Space
Expert advice for creating an outdoor living area you'll love.
Photo by: Proven Winners
Backyard Landscape and Garden Ideas
Maximize the use of your most important outdoor space.
Photo by Alli Guleria
Garden Room Ideas for Extending Your Living Space
See how one gardener transformed her suburban yard with beautiful and functional garden rooms.
Photo by Janet Loughrey
Privacy Landscaping: How to Design for Privacy
Make your yard and patio more private with these options.
Photo by Rebecca Sweet
Enclosures provide a peaceful sanctuary to unwind, read a book, or enjoy a cup of tea, creating a sense of privacy, security, and comfort.
Photo by Karl Seifert
Small Backyard Makeover: Using Every Square Inch
A tiny backyard is transformed into a functional, family-friendly retreat.
Photo by Richard Bloom
Common Plants Safe for Cats and Dogs
Keep pets from getting sick by choosing plants that won’t harm them.
Photo by Bethany Bey
A Small-Space Flower Garden in Chicago
Who says you need a ton of space to have a thriving flower garden that gives back? Bethany Bey shows us how it’s done on a small rooftop garden.
Outdoor Entertaining with Judy Kameon
Our Q&A with Judy Kameon about how she gets the party started in her quarter-acre garden, in Los Angeles. Plus: Our guide to recreating her garden's style at home.
Making Your Outdoor Living Space Comfortable
Tips from Los Angeles-based garden designer Stefan Hammerschmidt
Ana Maria Vieira Santos's São Paulo Outdoor Room
Perched between forest and the sea, a noted tastemaker in Brazil finds solitude and serenity in her elegant weekend home
How a blank space became a generous revelry room; ready, willing, and able to adapt to any festive occasion
The Path Less Taken: A Silver Lake Garden
Tom Kuntz and Jenny Rask hired the Los Angeles-based design firm Commune to transform their home and steep gardens into a series of discreet oases.
Romantic Outdoor Kitchen by Heather Lenkin
A driveway behind one of the oldest farmhouses in the Los Angeles area is transformed into a Victorian-inspired outdoor living area
Expert advice on planning and designing an outdoor cooking space.
There’s more to designing your outdoor space with a fire feature than dropping firewood into a terra cotta bowl in the backyard. Being properly primal takes some planning! See how several designers artfully incorporate fire into landscapes to create relaxing outdoor retreats.
The Good Host: Q & A with Terence Conran
We chat with design legend Terence Conran about how he uses smart design to make his guests feel at home in the garden.
Ideas for designing, building and equipping the outdoor kitchen of your dreams
Summer Party in a Chicago Garden
Restauranteur Rick Bayless throws open his backyard to celebrate the community he's built around cooking and growing
New Outdoor Furniture Collection Is Inspired by Nature
Grab a seat and relax in your outdoor space with nature-inspired furniture from landscape designer Nick Williams and furniture manufacturer Phillip Roth. Using reclaimed teakwood that’s weather-resistant, this new collection will blend into any garden, or take center stage as the star.
