Whether it’s a patio or a courtyard, a veranda or a cabana, a balcony or deck, a loggia or just a patch of grass extend your living area outside. Go alfresco with these ideas and reclaim that porch.

House Beautiful	Inside Out
Markham Roberts	boligtorvet.dk
Bodron+Fruit	Collett~Zarzycki
Living etc	Brace Design

Rigorous design standards blended with a sense of humour. Front Studio’s principles Yen Ha and Michi Yanageshita pursue a combination of art and architecture. Intensive exploration of their clients’ needs and site constraints is balanced by their obsessive pursuit of Lunch. The girls and I swapped flickr contacts a few weeks ago. I’m impressed by their design talent and their intensive pursuit of the answer to “what’s for lunch?”

Reader Allie sent these cool photos of her home to share. It’s bright breezy and fun with lots of great ideas. Check out more on her flickr site. For all the high end rooms we post it’s the readers’ homes I like the best.Thanks Allie!

A giant of the American design scene Vicente Wolf. Key words are integrity, simplicity, beauty. His rooms are sensuous cocoons, cool and luminous, sublime and seductive. I think I’m running out of superlatives.