The Sky's the Limit: Outdoor Rooms

It's amazing how many options are available outdoors these days! No longer are we limited to a patio slab with ugly plastic lounge chairs, or a builder-grade deck (not that there is anything wrong with those either!). Living rooms, kitchens, fireplaces, dining rooms, conversation pits, fire pits, hot tubs, full bars and many more amenities we usually associate with the indoors have made their way outside. Personally, I'm finding the extent of the outdoor kitchen trend to have gone amok; some of the ones I've been seeing in showhouses lately are totally insane and outfitted with more amenities than most people have in their indoor kitchens. It's fun to look though!

With all of the weather resistant woods, light fixtures, furniture, fabrics and even appliances available today, there really are no limitations on what you can make of your outdoor space. Here are some of my favorite, up-to-date spaces that blur the lines between indoors and out.