These outdoor living room ideas will help you transform your backyard into an extension of your home. All it takes is a little planning, design know-how and expert advice. Until we turned our gardens ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Gold writes about wellness design and related housing topics. Outdoor kitchens topped the project trends list in the latest ...

In Southern California homes, indoor and outdoor blur, the color and light of our gardens spilling into our interiors, the energy of kitchens and living rooms splashing onto patios. Our fabled setting ...

We all want to spend more time outdoors when the weather turns warm. Make it easy to get some fresh air by designing your backyard, patio, deck, or porch with indoor comforts that will make it as ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Melissa Rayworth, The Associated Press For decades, “outdoor decorating” meant arranging a few nice chairs and a table near a barbecue grill, then adding ...

Geraldine has over a decade of experience writing within the home improvement sector. Additionally, she has unique first-hand renovation experience as the previous owner of a house-flipping business.

As temperatures take a little dip and all of Houston makes a beeline for pretty patios, from Brennan's to Batanga, anyone with a barbecue pit and a patio knows the "Field of Dreams" reality: "Build it ...

Blurring the lines between inside and out creates a cohesive environment that expands your usable living area. Using consistent materials and flooring helps establish a seamless visual connection ...

Designers often talk about the perfect "outdoor living room," but what really separates these outdoor-entertaining spaces from just a nice patio? Six designers shared insight into what elevates a ...

BRANCHBURG, N.J. — Bill Paliouras dreamed of a backyard Eden. Not your garden-variety deck with stackable plastic chairs and a kettle charcoal grill — why settle for that? — but a loaded, supersize, ...

With coronavirus restrictions easing and socialising permitted in outdoor areas, having an outdoor living space has become more important than ever – and these celebrities are one step ahead of the ...