Not all living room layouts are created equal, and many people fall victim to six common mistakes when positioning their furniture in this space.
05.06.2024 - 23:15 / thespruce.com / Christianna Silva
Summer is officially here. The flowers are blooming, the sun is blinding, and the hot dogs are ready to hit the barbeque. But this year, there are some new outdoor living trends folks are totally obsessed with, from making our living rooms match our porches to ensuring the sustainability of our gardens.
To find out just what, exactly, we’ll be seeing outdoor this summer, Fixr surveyed 200 home construction experts, including architects, home builders, home remodelers, and landscaping specialists. Here’s what they had to say.
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We often see our outdoor spaces and our indoor spaces as two separate areas with their own aesthetics and design choices. But, in truth, our outdoor spaces simply become an extension of our indoor spaces once the warmer months hit.
We do similar activities in both spaces, like dining, hosting, reading, and more. Of course, there are some key differences that might make your design choices differ between the two spaces, but you should still have some sort of coherence between these two zones, according to more than 78 percent of experts surveyed by Fixr. Include similar color schemes and aesthetic choices to ensure that your inside life seamlessly transfers into your yard, porch, or balcony.
“After the pandemic, I've seen a definitive rise in the popularity of having a cohesive and finished outdoor space, designed in a way that it feels like an extension of the interior living area,” Rachel Street, President of Hestia Construction, told Fixr.
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The backyard, porch, and patio serve more than just one purpose. It might be where you garden, where you meditate, where you rest, and where you read, but it’s also likely where you host and where you
Not all living room layouts are created equal, and many people fall victim to six common mistakes when positioning their furniture in this space.
Jasmit Singh Rangr, a Berkeley-based architect, founder of Rangr Studio, and a lecturer in architecture at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, is technically responsible for building his family’s stylish, minimal, cost-conscious home near the Grizzly Peak summit in the Berkeley Hills. But the behind-the-scenes mastermind who made it possible is his wife, Abigail Dillen, president of Earthjustice, a nonprofit, public interest environmental law firm. Anyone familiar with the area’s cutthroat real estate market won’t be surprised to hear that the search for a vacant, buildable lot in one of the most coveted neighborhoods in the West required Dillen to use all of the skills that make her a great lawyer: creativity, a knack for analysis and research, perseverance, and the art of persuasion.
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Summer snuck up on us, and you're currently wondering why somehow, all of your landscaping is brown or struggling, you're not alone.
Curious about what outdoor trends are best suited for helping you relish the joys of summer—and which ones are best for taking off on a permanent vacation? We surveyed design pros and asked them what items they’re booting from their own yards this summer and which ones they think are prime for their moment in the sun.
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