Lower Levels (not Basements!)

Lower Levels (not Basements!)

Exercise Room Lower levels of homes are often candidates for a space to exercise, especially if there is room for the equipment that supports a well rounded workout. This space had the good fortune of being in a home built into a hill, so there it really is an...
Outdoor Rooms

Outdoor Rooms

Outdoor rooms connect you with central indoor activity areas. It should be as easy and inviting to live outdoors and step into these “outdoor rooms” as it is to travel from the dining to the living room. It’s about indoors flowing outdoors both visually and...
Screen Porches

Screen Porches

Summer Dining Room This lakeside screen porch is the quintessential outdoor room. In a summer home devoted to family gathering the doors to the house can stay open and activity can take place in this screen porch as if it were just another room in the house. This is...
Decks

Decks

Meet My Deck Decks may just be the most familiar and affordable outdoor rooms to add to a home. Here’s mine! It includes a covered entry to our kitchen and extends out octagonally for a table and umbrella above an essential garden shed nestled beneath. Renewable...
Out in Back

Out in Back

Porches transition between inside and out This is a back porch that extends the length of a house overlooking a lake. There is no doubt about the desire to be able to transition with ease between inside and out. A covered porch is a “room without walls” and its roof...