Buckingham house

1014 Adelante

1014 Adelante

1014 Adelante

1014 Adelante

1014 Adelante

1014 Adelante

1014 Adelante

1014 Adelante

Kim and Gabriella enjoy their kitchen, which spills out onto their backyard deck.

The home, which sits on a 83,346 Sqft lot, features a spacious patio and a pool.

Oakland–based Building Lab effortlessly connected the patio to the living and bedroom areas just beyond the striking wall of windows.

The backyard features a cedar deck that extends into a field of rolling wildflowers and local fauna.

Marco Becerril embraces indoor-outdoor living. "In a place like this, you have to ask a client to have faith, and faith to me has always been the belief in something you can't see," says architect Jorge Gracia who designed the residence.

A gravel path leads to a guesthouse, where Trainor supplemented an existing garden of yuccas and palm trees with succulent aeoniums and flowering euphorbias.

The nuri-en (an exterior overhang) is one of the few Japanese touches on the home's exterior. Paired with the continuation of the interior floor right out into the backyard, the home opens up to the outside quite nicely.

In the back, ferns and other shade-friendly plants thrive beneath the home’s deep overhangs.

Usha and Mike Kreaden had a virtually blank slate when it came to the garden outside the 1958 Joseph Eichler house that they bought in Silicon Valley two decades ago.

A deck is located off the dining area.

In fall, the color of this backyard in Charlottesville, Virginia, changes daily with the foliage. Elizabeth Birdsall marvels how new outdoor spaces on her property, like a patio furnished with upholstered seating from Gloster, make enjoying the woods an easy experience: “It’s like comfortable camping, all the time.”