This is how you create an outdoor area that feels like at home

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The lines have started to blur between where inside. They step directly on a terrace from a living room and almost forget where one ends and the other begins. The kitchen transfers to a deck, the bedroom slides in gardens, and the air feels different, it feels fresher … as if they stay out there. Creation of rooms you make I want to spend time outsideComfortable and stylish, no matter in what time of year? This is the general intention of life in the interior and outdoor area.

Design that expands your home

By creating continuity between indoor and outdoor spaces, it is really about how the space and functions feel, not as much as it looks. Michael O'Brien, founder of Hommes + Gardens, says: “It's about continuity. The moments outdoors should feel like extending their house.” It often moves outdoors outdoors, such as “a vintage iron table, a chair that is sealed and weatherproof, even a base that was once in an entrance.”

According to O'Brien, soft furniture is also because the comfort is crucial. Lie and pillow in durable external fabrics “alleviate the experience and invite people to linger. The plants do their job, but the comfort completes the picture. And of course smell. A pot of mint near a bench or a citrus tree from the door, adds some immaterial and unforgettable”.

Even the smallest transitions can contribute to the effect. “When I switched between zones, I often borrow materials from the house from the interior and bring them into the garden in key moments. Something as subtle as the pace of gravel on cut limestone can create a feeling of ceremony,” explains O'Brien.

Lighting has the feeling of continuity in all seasons. “The same intention that you bring into an inner lighting scheme should be carried into the garden. If you are made thoughtful, the lighting outdoors should invite you into the garden. I always like to tone that feel soft, flattering and atmospheric. Suddenly your home has won a room,” says O'Brien. If you include deliberate lights in your room, set a rhythm for the way you experience nature. You change the way you notice your home depending on the hour or season.

Patina and natural weathering give the outdoor personality over time. “I definitely made the mistake of placing something outside, not old – but you learn. Today I choose materials that are intended for the weather, or I have determined the expectation that they develop further. A leather strap that fades, a copper light, the green, the green has a piece when a piece is delicate.” Landscape and the elements. “

Scaling and functionality material

The success of seamless internal and external experiences is also on a scale and relationship. O'Brien refers as an example to a craftsman bungalow on the Sunset Square: “It had a spacious pool in a garden that felt separated from the house. We completely redesigned the property to create an increased terrace with full pergola, which are framed with a full pergola. Rhythm of the house.

Even a modest outdoor space can feel connected. For those who are looking for a low maintenance to upgrade in their space, O'Brien says: “Build a pergola. It can be minimal or artistic, wood or steel. It can be as easy as it is used in gravel. Select a puzzle plant to anchor the visual stimulus. Anchored anchor near the house.”

All-year-old indoor and outdoor tips

Seamless design works regardless of the season. You can optimize outdoor areas so that you feel right all year round.

In the fallReplace thin pillows for wool throws, bring in a portable fireplace or propan heating, maybe plant some herbs near the door so that the smell drifts in it.

winter Call up weatherproof curtains to block the wind, add some lanterns or string lights for heat, and let carpets down so that the room still feels defined.

Spring it is about refreshing Container gardens With new flowers, wooden furniture to bring them back to life, and the opening of folding or sliding doors when the sun comes out so that the inside is spilled outside.

Summer means linen or performance canvas covers, shady sail to keep the sun away, and a rolling car for drinks and snacks, so that the room works for humans, not only looks pretty.

All of these changes are about paying attention to materials that feel right, layers, furniture that can do more than one thing, and little Sensory touch. Smells, textures and colors? All of this makes the room feel alive. Add Handmade detailsLike manual tiles or tailor-made woodworking, both indoor and outdoor areas can also give a personal touch that tied it together. Especially in indoors and outdoor life, it is about how you actually use the room and how you feel in it every day.