Designer Jamie Durie framed this outdoor dining room by incorporating a large backyard pine tree into a stone wall. The benches are made of simple fallen tree trunks, an easy, inexpensive way to create gorgeous outdoor seating. Author, television host and environmentalist Jamie Durie pioneered the idea of outdoor rooms in his native Australia. Durie’s love of nature guides him in creating outdoor living spaces that expand homes to the outdoors. Trained as a Climate Project Presenter (with former Vice President Al Gore), Durie lectures about environmentalism around the world. He designed this
outdoor space for a Wyoming family. His book, JamieDurie’s The Outdoor Room, is available at jamiedurie.com.
Photo By Tonya McCahon
All the furniture in the backyard are created from fallen trees from the nearby forest, handmade carved to bring more comfort and the decoration is just perfect. A person feels like the time has stopped there century or two back.
Photograph: Alexandar Novoselski
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Trina’s from A Country Farmhouse romantic outdoor dining patio.
Set the table outside for a laid-back lunch with an appliquéd fish design fabric as a tablecloth and a fishing net table runner. Team with comfortable ticking cushions and mix-and-match nautical tableware.
Photograph by Brie Williams.
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Donna Karan’s Urban Zen.
Designed by none other than Jonathan Adler, the garden of Nanette Lepore’s West Village Victorian townhouse is the ideal landscape with plenty of seating, lots of greenery, and flashes of color.
Designer Kathryn Ireland converted an old barn at her farmhouse near Toulouse into a rustic open-air dining room. It looks straight out of the movies, doesn’t it?
