Article: The good outdoor room.(Editor's Note)

Outdoor rooms have become as important as indoor ones. In fact, they are probably the biggest trend in custom home design today. Home buyers are beginning to expect their new house to have an outdoor room, and they want it to be a good room--functional and beautiful. To make an outdoor room a true and gracious extension of the house, you will need to give the same careful attention to the basics of good design--prospect, scale, and comfort--that you give to its interior counterparts.

The view from the outdoor room should be the best the site has to offer. If there's no natural view, create one. A water feature, a well-placed specimen tree, a flower garden, or a ...

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