garden | outdoor

This helps tie the overall design of the house together,” says Jeffries. The windows of the master bedroom—which features a Dann Sideboard by TemaHome—open to reveal a mahogany hardwood deck.

The courtyard holds outdoor seating and a fire pit. Ett Hem’s chefs grill here for the evening meals.

Burnette sought to maintain the property’s natural vegetation and rocky ground surface.

A maple tree grows through an ipe deck in this garden that Mary Barensfeld designed for a family in Berkeley, California. A reflecting pool separates it from a granite patio, which is furnished with a Petal dining table by Richard Schultz and chairs by Mario Bellini. The 1,150-square-foot garden serves as an elegant transition from the couple’s 1964 Japanese-style town house to a small, elevated terrace with views of San Francisco Bay. Filigreed Cor-Ten steel fence screens—perforated with a water-jet cutter to cast dappled shadows on a bench and the ground below—and zigzagging board-formed concrete retaining walls are examples.

An artist and an architect built their home, studios, and an exhibition space inside a lushly landscaped Antwerp warehouse.

The outdoor living room serves as both a counterpoint and extension of the interior, with amenities that include a Gandia Blasco dining table and bench, a Lynx grill, and a custom concrete fire pit designed by Kathleen Ferguson; it sits atop a bed of crushed white rock. A built-in bench runs along the length of the courtyard.