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A relaxing, comfortable, and well put together outdoor living space does not revolve around a bargain store patio furniture impulse buy. A functional, beautiful outdoor living space requires careful planning to ensure a useful, inviting design. What’s the Formula for an Outstanding Outdoor Living Space Design? Answering these questions before purchasing patio items will help you ensure a successful outcome: How Much Space Do You Have to Work With? This will depend on your property’s unique footprint, zoning, and HOA limitations. What’s the Purpose of Your Outdoor Living Area? How will you and your family gain the most enjoyment from your space? With the addition of a relaxing retreat, a comfortable outdoor kitchen and dining space , or outdoor game room? The necessary features (and space required to house them) will depend largely on this decision. Where Would You Like to Put Your Outdoor Space? The typical l...

Food bills can put a huge dent in family finances, particularly if dining out is a regular practice. A major monthly expense, the amount families spend eating out has surpassed the amount spent on grocery items for home use. Worsening the issue, the cost of eating out is also on the rise according to restaurant industry news, rising 2.7%, while the cost humbler homemade fare has dropped 0.5%. Is family among those with a budget ballooning at the expense of restaurant dining? Eat Out in Your Own Backyard If you’re looking for a quick escape, and to dining out to deliver, why not escape to the outdoors and the joy of a healthful, simply prepared home cooked meal in your own backyard? Home cooked food is both cheaper and healthier, and what little prep work is involved makes for a great family bonding activity, particularly when surrounded by the beauty of the outdoors. Rather than stretching finances thin with repetitive restaurant purchases, why not think outside the fast food...

Looking for a reason to invest and indulge in an outdoor living space this year? It’s Harvard-recommended. Healthy for the mind and body, with none of the side effects of prescriptions, spending time outdoors is proven to support your physical and mental health. Recommended by Harvard Medical School Research from Harvard Medical School points to the significant health benefits of spending time outdoors, from grabbing a bite to eat or wrapping up the day’s work, to putting your feet up and relaxing. What’s so great about the great outdoors? Time Outside Boosts Vitamin D Essential to overall health, exposing your skin to the sunshine creates more bioavailable Vitamin D. More readily utilized by your body, such naturally-produced Vitamin D outshines synthetic substitutes in performance. And most Americans don’t get enough, motivating many doctors to write prescriptions for the ‘sunshine vitamin’ due to its impressive protective benefit...

Is your outdoor space covered in concrete, or tiny as a postage stamp? Don’t underestimate its potential. With vertical gardening, even a small, sterile space can be transformed into lush, green outdoor living escape.     photo credit:  http://www.livingwallart.com What is a Vertical Garden? With a vertical garden, also called a living wall or green wall, the sky's the limit to your potential for adding the ambiance of nature to your landscape. Typically mounted to interior or exterior building walls, and occasionally to fences, vertical planting setups vary widely in size, shape, scope, and technology. Despite these differences, however, each offers an amazing opportunity to easily transform your outdoor space into a verdant outdoor oasis . Allowing for the incorporation of plant life into nearly any location, the benefits of vertical gardens don’t end at their luxurious looks. Vertical gardens also help control the heat island effect, keeping ...