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Outdoor kitchens are hot. According to the Hearth, Patio, & Barbecue Association, nearly 70 percent of gas-grill owners cook outdoors year-round. In addition, the Weber Outdoor Room Tracking Study revealed that during the years 2003 through 2006 spending on outdoor rooms almost doubled. Outdoor Kitchens: Ideas for Planning, Designing, and Entertaining showcases the work of top designers who have created fully equipped outdoor kitchens across the country. Information includes planning and design advice and some easy how-to projects that address the needs of all lifestyles and budgets.

- Design Basics and Choosing a Site
- Planning a Budget
- Developing a floor plan
- Improving Comfort (issues of shade, shelter, heating, and cooling
- Selecting Appliances
- Creating the Food Preparation Area
- Designing the Dining Area
- Optional Amenities (lighting seating, TV and audio, etc.)
- Gallery of Designs: compact, mid- and luxury-range designs
- Resources, Glossary and Index

This book is a unique and inspirational guidebook for outdoor furniture displayed in wonderful contemporary gardens and on beautiful contemporary terraces.

Designing and furnishing a house is not a process that stops at the backdoor. What happens in the garden is just as important and carries on from the style adopted indoors. Design-oriented outdoor furniture has been become as important as indoor furniture, and famous brands (B&B Italia, Gervasoni, MDF Italia, Meridiani, Paola Lenti, Piet Boon Zone, Gervasoni, Extremis, a.o.) have launched wonderful outdoor series in the past years.

The importance of exterior living spaces, such as courtyards and patios in our daily lives, is brought into focus within the pages of this attractive volume. Long associated with calm, stillness and tranquility, this area is where the outside meets the inside. 

A brilliantly designed layout and text blend clarity with inspiration on every page. Nine themed garden makeovers have been designed, built and planted specially for this volume, with step-by-step photos and drawings demonstrating each project in a clear, easy-to-follow fashion.

The book addresses and demystifies common garden concerns, and is crammed with tips to help the reader create their ideal garden from first inspiration all the way to month-by-month maintenance. A catalogue of recommended garden plants – all widely available and easy-to-grow – is also included.

Comprehensively combining garden design, DIY and horticulture in one good-looking and authoritative volume, Outdoor Living offers the reader all the knowledge and inspiration they will need to create their perfect outdoor room – and enjoy it to the full.

Good design is a good investment—poor quality or unimaginative spaces will not be attractive to children; the play space may not be valued by the local community and may fall into disuse and disrepair.

High-quality, integrated play space design is imperative in helping to attract children and families, and for the playground to become a valued part of the local environment.

This detailed book examines key drivers in best play space designs: it investigates the importance of play, preparations and planning, how to develop a strong design brief, good layout, choosing the right equipment materials for the type of space, and how to incorporate the best natural elements into the play space design.

This strong reference also describes key design issues, such as boundaries and fencing issues, along with standards for major equipment, including platforms, guardrails and protective barriers. There’s also a comprehensive section on hazards and dangers.

The book showcases an international range of projects divided into three major case study themes: play spaces in parks, communities and schools, with each case study illuminated by informative narrative text descriptions, and accompanied by rich, full-color photography, detailed diagrams and illustrations.

This is the ultimate guide to creating an outdoor oasis in your very own backyard. Hundreds of images illustrate creative ideas for turning a simple lawn into a fresh-air room. Topics covered include using landscaping to create "walls" and a sense of space. Design possibilities of wood, poured concrete, brick, tile, gravel, natural stone, and concrete pavers are explored. Consider decorating loggias, patios, courtyards, covered porches, decks, lanais, and rooftops, as well as temporary structures. Learn how to furnish an outdoor room. A large section on outdoor kitchens provides ideas for outdoor design's hottest trend. Designers, contractors, architects, and homeowners will love the multitude of ideas for fashioning amazing outdoor spaces.

Outdoor Spaces is a unique collection of innovative, alfresco designs that integrate human habitats seamlessly into their surrounding environment. The use of natural light, filtered into the interior spaces of the residence, is just one example of how contemporary architects and landscape designers attempt to reestablish a connection with the outdoors. Using state of the art design and materials, these terraces, balconies, gardens, and courtyards embody the merging of luxurious living spaces with a more respectable attitude toward nature. Whether the view is a secluded, sandy beach or a metropolitan skyline, these spaces function as stylish yet relaxing leisure areas.

"Outdoors" covers a range of garden uses, from relaxation to entertainment. Readers are encouraged to look beyond the garden gate to consider garden styles worldwide. The book provides practical information on how to fulfil the requirements for each garden type and as well as presenting classic solutions, the authors provide imaginative, inspirational and up to date alternatives. Today's designed gardens also provide the appropriate means for putting conservation philosophies into practice whether it be for wildlife, recycling or water-wise gardening. This work includes practical advice on how to design your own garden and fifteen case studies throughout the book, personally chosen by the authors, demonstrate how innovative design can be translated to the garden whether on a grand scale or in the creative detailing that sets one garden apart from another. This exciting book, redefines garden design for the twenty-first century and shows the best and most stimulating examples from around the world. Whether you live in the town or country and regardless of the size of your garden, "Outdoors" will be an invaluable source of information and inspiration.

500 photos/illustrations

Bringing the pleasure of a never ending summer inside your home is without a doubt a very powerful interior design element. It changes the perception and the ambience of a space not only in the way it looks, but also in how it affects your mood.

From indoor pools to winter gardens, roof gardens to indoor golf, Outside In showcases different ways of combining the elements of nature, sport, and leisure inside your home. This richly illustrated volume presents many original applications and exquisite examples by internationally known architects and designers.

Aitana Lleonard collaborated with several cultural magazines before writing for Loft Publications. She is the author of several publications about interiors and architecture such as Ultimate Paris Design, Beach Clubs, and Small+Urban+Modern=Homes.

Anyone looking for design ideas for patios, terraces, and other compact outdoor spaces will find this inspirational sourcebook invaluable, whether starting afresh or fine-tuning an existing design.

This is the ultimate resource for innovative terrace, roof garden, patio, and balcony design ideas for outdoor spaces of all shapes and sizes. Featured inside this lavishly illustrated sourcebook are 600 full-colour photographs and diagrams of uniquely beautiful projects from around the world, by well-known and up-and-coming garden and landscape designers. They reveal how to create exterior spaces in a variety of styles, from a classic urban roof garden with romantic garden plantings to clean, modern, and innovative spaces.

Traditional as well as cutting-edge materials that are practical, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly are featured throughout. Most importantly, the design ideas featured can easily be tailored to the unique tastes and individual needs of a particular site or project.

Truly an inspirational sourcebook for anyone aspiring to create or update an outdoor room, the book includes designs from all parts of the world — the United States, Canada, England, Japan, and France, among other countries — by some of the very best contemporary garden designers and landscape architects at work today. This book is destined to become a perennial resource.

About the Author

Francesc Zamora Mola is the author of numerous architecture and interior design books, including The Sourcebook of Contemporary Urban Design, 150 Best New Apartment Ideas, and Small Apartment Inspirations. Formerly an architect in San Francisco, he currently lives and works in Barcelona.

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This atmospheric volume perfectly captures the magic of a gorgeous garden

Lush and vivid color photography and inspiring texts send you on a dream getaway into the realm of nature

A must-have for gardeners and garden lovers

“If you have a garden and a library, then you have everything you need,” said Cicero in ancient times. Gardens are places of peace and meditation that invite you to dream. With their vivid greens, flowers in every color of the rainbow, and inviting shade trees, gardens exert a special pull on us and offer an escape from everyday stress. Paradise Found – Gardens of Enchantment shows the world’s most beautiful gardens, from English gardens and romantic rose gardens to enchanting nature gardens. The evocative photographs and excellent plant portraits by Clive Nichols, a master of using light to create mood, are equally moving and inspiring. Classic garden stories and quotes accompany the reader through this volume on a visual stroll through nature.

CLIVE NICHOLS is one of the world’s best-known garden and plant photographers and has received many awards for his work. His photos have appeared in countless magazines, books, and calendars. Clive Nichols also leads a series of popular photography workshops for the Royal Horticultural Society of Britain.

Collect stones, pebbles, and shells, and adorn your garden and home with these beautiful pebble mosaics! Experiment with textures, design, and color to create some stunning feature pieces and decorate your garden and home. 

The mosaic has long been a stunning method of decoration, stretching back to the cities of ancient Greece and Rome, and now, with Pebble Mosaics, you can create your own little piece of history in your home! Learn how to find and forage ceramics, stones, and pebbles in your back garden and home, and arrange them to make the 25 beautiful and original designs packed inside Pebble Mosaics.

Complete with a "Gallery" section to inspire your creativity, there will be a pattern or a project to suit every need and any taste. Pebble Mosaics is split into two chapters.

The first, "Paths, Plaques, and Panels", will take you through creating mosaics for larger projects such as Stepping Stones, Garden Benches, Sundials, and Evening Tables. You will learn how to mix cement, identify good materials for your project, and construct patterns that suit you.

The second chapter, "Planters and Decorative Features", will show you how to make some beautiful ornamental items, such as a Bubbling Fountain, a Lattice Planter, and Hurricane Lanterns.

With easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and photography, Pebble Mosaics is suitable for even the most novice of pebble-layers.

About the author

Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell grows crops on her city roof terrace and in a spectacular community garden in London. She also works a large garden in Wiltshire, where she practices the complementary craft of bee-keeping. She is dedicated to both flowers and vegetables, and grows all her produce organically. Deborah’s other passions include art and craft; she originally trained in fine art, and is an award-winning artist. She has written over 20 practical craft books, including Grow Your Own Herbs in Pots and Decorating Pumpkins and Gourds.

Holding to the highest standards of technical craft to create problem-solving landscapes that attain artful expression, Peter Walker and Partners (PWP) is responsible for some of most beautiful and iconic works of landscape architecture in the world.

This book features work since 1997 that brilliantly showcases the firm’s range, including sixteen built projects in Europe, Asia and the United States – parks, corporate headquarters, foundations, museums and urban plazas; seven works in progress, including the American Embassy in Beijing and the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City; and ten site planning and urban-design projects, among them millennium parklands in Sydney, Australia and Novartis Headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.

The book opens with a short essay about the organization and philosophy of the office, the partners and associates, and the particular way that PWP practises the craft of landscape architecture. It concludes with four competitions, including one for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

About the Author

Peter Walker is a landscape architect with forty years of experience in practice and teaching. A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and of the Institute for Urban Design, and recipient of the American Institute of Architects’ Honour Award, he writes and lectures widely on landscape design. Jane Brown Gillette has served as associate editor of Historic Preservation magazine, features editor of Landscape Architecture magazine, and executive editor of Land Forum magazine and Spacemaker Press. She has also published book reviews, critical essays and short stories in a variety of journals.

Illustrations:  168 color