Exceptional Spaces - Urban Outdoor Living

Urban outdoor living on rooftops, balconies and small garden spaces has captured the fascination and desire of city dwellers to expand their living space with outdoor living. This week we are featuring examples of exceptional outdoor living spaces as well before and after projects and ideas on how you can create your own urban outdoor living oasis.

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Get The Look - Privacy

Photo Inspiration - Insite InteriorsWe feel this outdoor space incorporates several of the examples of how to create privacy without sacrificing good design that Eric King mentioned in his interview in the Designing for Outdoor Privacy post. On the perimeter of this patio a fireplace, shrubbery and treillage are used to screen the outside views as Eric suggested. The curtains were used to create an even more intimate and private setting on the interior of the outdoor space.

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Design 101 - Designing for Outdoor Privacy with Eric King

Rick EckersleyWhen it came time to finding answers to the “How to” questions of creating privacy for your outdoor living space we turned to landscape architect Eric King who has been designing award-winning gardens for homes in Atlanta for decades.

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Inspiration Board - Privacy Solutions

We all like to spend as much time outdoors on the patio or around the pool but how do we create privacy without sacrificing design? This week we will be offering design solutions, examples and inspiration on how privacy and design can blend together.

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Design 101 - Holiday Decorating with Empty Planters

Deborah Silver and CO.Just because your annuals have died back in your planters doesn’t mean you have to move them to the garage or basement for the winter.  Keep your beautiful planters outdoors and use them as the base for our gorgeous holiday decorating ideas.

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Top Topic - Fun with Artificial Foliage

Random finds from the Web for your Friday entertainment.  This Friday’s Top Topic search query – fun with artificial foliage.

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Design 101 - Allison Lind's Guide to Designing with Outdoor Artificial Foliage

This week we got to bend the ear of former magazine editor and stylist turned interior designer and design writer Allison Lind.  Allison's work as been featured in Ty Pennington at Home, Everyday with Rachel Ray and Woman's Day to name a few so we are thrilled to have her share her design insights with our readers too.

Whether you live in a colder northern climate where pots and flower beds are barren for several months or you live in a warmer southern climate where plants are beat down by the sun and heat for a big portion of the year - it is sometimes hard to keep planters and beds as full of greenery and blooms as you'd like.  We are continuously impressed by the ever improving quality of artificial foliage on the market and we asked Allison the ins and outs of designing with artificial foliage.

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Designer Profile - Matthew Hufft, Clayton Vogel, Jesse Hufft of Edwin Blue

Matthew Hufft, Clayton Vogel and Jesse Hufft are three long time friends who have spent most of their business careers working in the fields of architecture, industrial design and marketing. But they had a dream to create products that exemplify the spirit and authenticity of what it means to them to be American-made. What they created was Edwin Blue.

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Exceptional Spaces - Sun Belt Living

For many parts of the country the outdoor living season is coming to a close but in the southern and western states the excessive heat has past and the most enjoyable time of the year for patio life is just beginning. 

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Before & After - Suzanne Dimma for HGTV's ''The Style Dept.''

 

We came across this fun Palm Springs inspired before and after in Canadian House and Home's Condos, Lofts and Apartments magazine that was produced by Suzanne Dimma for HGTV Canada's ''The Style Dept.''  Suzanne proves that you can create a slice of sunny and warm Palm Springs regardless of where you live.

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