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I’ve gone through my files and found my favourite “outdoor rooms” for 2008. I love living outside as much as possible and if I had spaces as stylish as these I doubt I’d want to come back inside. Whether a chair pulled up casually in a favourite garden corner, a private place on a veranda or an architect’s dream melding outside with in there is inspiration a plenty.

realestate.com.au	Alison Miksch
Claesson Koivisto Rune	Lucyina Moodie

William Hefner

Eric Staudenmaier	Eric Staudenmaier
Reed Davis	Shootspaces

Sandy Koepke

Quentin Bacon	Magni Design

Sandy Koepke

I found Megan Van Linda’s beautiful landscaping while checking participating designers’ websites at the San Francisco Decorator Showcase. Her gardens are so pretty with soft lush plantings and stylish furniture and garden “rooms”. I know what I’m doing this weekend. I’m buying succulents and moss to fill my clam shell. With such a wonderful eye and a super green thumb it’s no wonder she was asked to deign an alfresco space at the showcase.

…. I’d be this cast concrete soaking tub designed by Oliver Burns. Alfresco bathing on late spring afternoon, pure bliss! I think I need some champagne too.

I love this deck form the late 60s. Love the floating stairs, the seating possibilities on the wide ledge, the retro table and chairs, the repeating row of flowerpots. (Image scanned from The Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement. Vol 16. Greystone Press, New York, 1971.)

I have been busy the last month or trying to get my backyard in some sort of reasonable state. Thanks to my dad’s HUGE help, it’s finally done (well, about 95% done). I hired someone to build the fence and the deck, and the rest was done by my dad and I on my Mondays off and my boyfriend helped on weekends. My dad rocks. For an old guy, he sure worked his ass off. So I figured I had to toot my own horn a bit and show you the results. (Since it’s into August, the planting is at a minimum and we don’t have much furniture/accessories but it’s a start).