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Ellen Finch

Indoor-Outdoor Living — 5 Ways to Embrace This Transitional Trend in Your Backyard

Paved patio outside black framed doors with white and grey sleek sofas and coffee table.

As summer approaches, naturally, we shift to spending much more of our time outdoors. It’s around this time of year that talk of indoor-outdoor living really starts to ramp up – after all, who doesn’t love the idea of gliding smoothly between house and garden, their backyard an extension of their living space?

It’s a backyard idea that designers are all sold on. ‘Indoor outdoor living, for me, represents the pinnacle of a fabulous lifestyle at home,’ says Caroline Kopp, an interior designer based in Westport, Connecticut. ‘Nothing is better than eating and relaxing with friends in a space that is outdoors, but with all the comforts of the indoors.’

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