Collection by Zach Edelson
Unique Ways to Do Indoor-Outdoor Living
At Dwell we love letting nature into the modern home and vice-versa. However, indoor-outdoor doesn't have to mean a single large sliding door leading to the backyard. These six homes took a very different tack.
A Batons chandelier from LBL Lighting hangs over the dining table. A garage-style door by Overhead Door opens onto a patio that gets plenty of use when the weather cooperates.
The house is set on a forested hill, which means the backyard—though scenic—is too steep to enjoy. It’s also perpetually shady. Schicketanz wanted somewhere she could soak in the sun, so she added a roof deck. “It’s really the only usable, large outdoor space I have,” she says.
The two building skins form a veranda in-between, where Burns and his partner, Tania Soghomonian, often entertain guests.
This open-ended box, lined in mirrored glass, performs like a kaleidoscope, amplifying the mature Melia tree’s presence within the dining room.
Coastal, on a hill, and made from inexpensive materials, the Ferguson house is a catalog of moving surfaces and open rooms.