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Outdoor Party Ideas for Cold Weather

An impromptu outdoor fireplace from Casa Sugar One thing I love about living in the Bay Area is that it almost never gets too frigid cold to be outdoors. Even in winter, it can be fun to entertain in...

Before & After: Rooftop Garden
Sunset Magazine

Before In a city where private outdoor space is at a premium, sometimes the best solution is to go vertical, converting roof space into usable square footage for a garden. This transformation from Su...

Shedsploitation: Tiny, Purposeful Backyard Sheds

Our friend Seth Boor, an amazing local architect, is blogging a new project we're so excited to share. Shedsploitation explores the design of tiny backyard sheds, small enough to build without permits...

Trends in Sustainable Design: The Late Show Gardens

Gardeners relate to our planet more intimately than most, with their hands in the dirt and their eyes on the weather. So who better to speak to environmental concerns like climate change? The Late Sho...

Top 5 Small Space Veggies (& Things We Won't Plant Again)

(Welcome to Olivia from Portland. She is the first of a group of bloggers trying out for a place on the Apartment Therapy editorial team, covering different cities in the Northwest. Comments welcome!)...

Recycled Garden Shed (and a Weekend DIY Shed Event!)
Sunset

We love the idea of the backyard shed as peaceful getaway, like Lisa's beautiful cottage in Port Orchard, Washington, built and decorated with recycled materials. If you're interested in building your...

Rocking Chairs Project

We have been looking for a vintage rocking chair for awhile. There is something incredibly relaxing about rocking chairs. We imagine ourselves sitting in a rocking chair on a balcony or a porch on a b...

Modern Porch Swing

Sitting on our porch swing with a glass of iced tea is one of our favorite pastimes--well, when we had a porch, that is. We loved this model, posted on Apartment Therapy LA, and we can't help but swoo...

Les Roulottes: Gypsy Wagons for the Garden

We're suspending our sense of reality right now and jumping right in to the delusion that we have anywhere to put one of these. However, these gypsy wagons have carried us off on a cloud of fancy, and...

Sleek Courtyard (With a Couple of Surprises)
Fresh Dirt

This chic and modern courtyard at the home of garden designer Suzanne McKevitt contains a few fun, unexpected choices. When we came across the garden on Sunset magazine's blog, Fresh Dirt, we studied ...

Maxwell's Email: Best of the Northwest Great Outdoors

Here's a peek at the best of the Northwest from Maxwell's daily email blast. He recently took a look at outdoor spaces and these are the six he featured:...

8-Story Antigravity Forest
Wired Magazine

There has been a flurry of inspiring vertical gardens lately, like these ones recently posted on Apartment Therapy, and this one is definitely one of the most ambitious that we've seen......

DIY Challenge: Screened Porch

A childhood friend of mine used to invite friends up to her family's old cottage in Healdsburg, where five or six of us would sleep outside on a screened-in porch. Heavenly! Remembering those days has...

Jim's Hidden Paradise
Container Garden Tour

Name: Jim Kumiega Location: SoMa, San Francisco The entrance to Jim Kumiega's garden is down a long dark hallway from the street. At first to creep down a tunnel like this in SoMa feels like a bad...

An Outdoor Portland Living Room
The Oregonian

When they moved into their new Portland home, thespians Richard Rolfe and Stephen Rutledge put their skills to work on the interior and exterior. One project was to create an outdoor living space sh...

Outdoor Living Room Made from Salvage
The Oregonian

Finally! We've often wondered if the extravagant "outdoor living room" concept could be done on a non-extravagant budget, or at least look nice but not as fussy as the slick magazine spreads on the ...

Look! Old Croquet Cart Transformed into Yardwork Caddy

Proving that there are many folks far more resourceful than ourselves, The Oregonian featured this handy way to reuse an old croquet cart, for which the actual croquet set had long been missing piec...

Camping With the Comforts of Home: What's Your Style?

Backpacking, of course, has its own glories—the wonder and quiet of remote areas, the enjoyment of living as simply as possible for a short time—but car camping is a great way to escape for differ...

Long Table Inspiration from Outstanding in the Field

When we heard Outstanding in the Field is coming to our hometown soon, we headed on over to their website to learn more. While there, we were bowled over by the varied arrangements of long outdoor d...

Summer Project: DIY Stock Tank Pool

Another one for the "worth the effort" DIY files... Cathy and her husband wanted a chlorine-free pool big enough for the whole family to splash around in during the hot Santa Rosa summer. Hoping for s...

Vintage Airstream Rentals from Silver Trailer

Do you remember this post on jewelry designer Kristiana Spaulding's amazing Airstream? We were instantly drawn to the light-filled, refurbished interior and loved the thought of spending a little vaca...

Living Tapestry: Design Your Own Vertical Garden

While we love the concept of a vertical garden, which of course is perfect for small outdoor spaces, we haven't really come across a good, workable DIY method that doesn't require super-landscaper or ...

Creating a Backyard Beach
Sunset

Many people dream of living near or at the beach at sometime in their lives - it just seems to be human nature. Those readers lucky enough to be living near a coast can visit, but how about the more l...

Homeowner's Association: "No Gardening"

We were speaking with a friend the other night and they mentioned that their homeowner's association doesn't allow vegetable gardening in their neighborhood. We had heard of regulations on grass hei...

Open-Air Addition Transforms Bungalow for Summer
Sunset

We frequently find ourselves drooling over the renovations documented in Sunset, but this one really knocked our socks off. Here's a couple, Gus and Stephanie Koven, whose little bungalow failed to in...

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