Kirkland clients, Shayna and Anthony had a lovely home with a beautiful view of Lake Washington. However, the waterfront side of their home didn’t offer an ideal set-up to fully enjoy the magnificence that their lot provides. They desired more year-round use of their home in the form of an outdoor covered living room, along with more overall functionality from their outdoor spaces. Their formal living area had a door to the outside that the couple never used. The McAdams Remodeling & Design team replaced the sliding door with a window that still offered plenty of natural light but enclosed the space providing more options for furniture placement. The room’s exterior stairs and landing were removed. The exterior siding was matched, and the new landscaping along with an arbor installed, was created in tandem during the remodel by a local landscape architecture firm, ensuring the change looked natural. Past the seating around the gas firepit, a new large deck was constructed, half of which was covered, to replace the smaller, dated version. The metal railing was exchanged for a new composite one, and a new Dutch back door leading from the kitchen offers an alternative option for ingress and egress along with fresh air on nice days. The covered deck area adjacent to the family room provides protection from the weather and now houses the outdoor kitchen they desired for entertaining family and friends. The outdoor kitchen includes a built-in gas grill, stone gas fireplace, refrigerator for food and beverages, and a garbage receptacle. A ceiling fan and heaters are incorporated into the outdoor living space design to provide year-round comfort. Finally, retractable shades were installed so that the couple can enclose the space if desired. A small upstairs bedroom was used as a den for relaxation and reading but also contains one of the best views in the home. The McAdams team removed the windows and base bulkhead, adding floor to ceiling windows and a glass door for an unobstructed view. The new medium-sized deck above the covered outdoor living space gives Shayna and Anthony the opportunity to entertain or relax while highlighting their view of the lake. Finally, their Juliet balcony off the primary bedroom received a re-coated railing and new decking, while the home was repainted to offer a classy craftsman feel and pull all of the changes into one cohesive home design. Shayna and Anthony love their new entertainment spaces and expect to use them often.

This compact, urban backyard was in desperate need of privacy. We created a series of outdoor rooms, privacy screens, and lush plantings all with an Asian-inspired design sense. Elements include a covered outdoor lounge room, sun decks, rock gardens, shade garden, evergreen plant screens, and raised boardwalk to connect the various outdoor spaces. The finished space feels like a true backyard oasis.

Agnes Lopez
Living room - large zen formal and open concept living room idea in Jacksonville with a standard fireplace

Builder: John Kraemer & Sons | Interior Design: Jennifer Hedberg of Exquisite Interiors | Photography: Jim Kruger of Landmark Photography
Classic mixed siding beige porch idea in Minneapolis with a roof extension

Kim Sargent
Example of a mid-sized zen concrete floor and brown floor great room design in Wichita with brown walls and no fireplace

A formidable pallet of Asian style plant species along with traditional bamboo construction and meandering stone and gravel pathways.
This is an example of an asian shade backyard stone landscaping in San Francisco.

A formidable pallet of Asian style plant species along with traditional bamboo construction and meandering stone and gravel pathways.
Photo of an asian shade backyard water fountain landscape in San Francisco with decking.

Kim Sargent
Example of a large master medium tone wood floor and brown floor bedroom design in Wichita with beige walls and no fireplace

Front Entry plantings include: Star Jasmine (vine), Dogwood (tree), Gulf Stream Heavenly Bamboo (Shrubs), Lavender (perennial), Autumn Joy Sedum (perennial), Evergold Sedge (evergreen grass), and vinca (ground cover). The bed includes accent boulders as well.

Bring Light In, Keep Rain Out, the Ultimate in UV protection. This cover is 24' x 16' and added 384 square feet of year round usable outdoor living space to this home. Doug Woodside

This cover was roof mounted to provide adequate height underneath. The glass rail with a low profile top cap keeps the view open. Photo by Doug Woodside, Decks and Patio Covers

Designed by Watershapes Consulting and built by Paradise Pools & Gardens, this stunning contemporary vanishing edge pool utilizes our HydraLux "in-floor" system to achieve maximum energy savings while keeping the pool both warm and clean while preserving and enhancing the architectural flow of the project. The slats are Solar in polycarbonate.

This custom gable style patio cover had to be built in a off set manor to accommodate the craftsman style of home. the panels are solar cool white and the aluminum frame was powder coated a custom color to match the exterior trim color of the house. Photo by Doug Woodside, Decks and Patio Covers

In ground vinyl liner swimming pool on a hillside with full width sun deck, corner steps, diving board, pool house, hot tub, and automatic pool cover.

MHG Greens&Gardens design a new garden reflecting those she saw in that far land. She had bought a Buddha, but not an ordinary Buddha, but the “Enchanting Buddha”, and now it needs a special place. Her home a contemporary architectural design with simple lines, open, with large windows and an asymmetrical structure, a characteristic of this design and ideally for an oriental them garden. Contemporary homes saw their peak of popularity in the 1990s in Puerto Rico, nonetheless are still being built today. The front yard needs enhancing, and it had to be the outline for the new theme, contemporary Asian. The home entrance, as well as the Travertine steps was flanked with rain forest gray rocks intercalated with yellow iris and Billbergia pyramidalis bromeliads. The door step treasured a gray industrial finish “Cono Alto” planter with dark green Sansevieria. On the entrance platform, right hand’s areas, a mixture of bright color were used as the focal point with a assortment mixture of Bromeliad Neoregelia Voodoo Doll, Bromeliad Neoregelia Puppy Love, Neoregelia spectabilis and Rhoeo Stripe Me Pink (Tradescantia Spathacea) Sanguinerias. The home’s front wall was lined with Breynia Nivosa, Dianella tasmanica variegata, and the Areca palm tree was garlanded with white Anthurium and in the long branches, red bromeliads. The cover patio side wall and all the way to edge of the swimming pool wall, was delineated with Snow Queen Variegated Hibiscus and ground covered with Rhoeo Purple Sanguinerias, in the wall’s center space Purple False Eranthemum Black Varnish and ground covered with Liriope muscari Variegata to complement both ends with Queen Variegated Hibiscus . The swimming pool was crowned with the “Enchanting Buddha” a 4.5 feet tall statue and the garden’s main character and the reason for the garden transformation. Two Eugenia Trees, Pom-Pom Topiary shaped were planted in two Chinese red bowl vases framing the Buddha. Two small red clay bowls placed in the ground, on the left side of the Buddha, one with Sedum rupestris lemon coral in a beautiful yellow and a second bowl with yellow Sansevieria The home owner said, “Now I get up earlier than ever before, I open the main building’s living room sliding doors overlooking the mountains and the horizon, pull up my comfort chair every morning before the rest of the family starts their day. Otherwise, I am not guaranteed to have the place to myself, it is a beautiful spiritual place, and is best discovered alone with my just brewed cup of Puerto Rican espresso”.

Jonas Lundberg & Anna Truelsen mylovelythings.blogspot.com
Inspiration for a mediterranean patio remodel with a pergola

Asian inspired straw thatched roof structure covers in-ground hot tub with surrounding sculpted and stamped concrete patio features. Oriental grasses and trees are used in pots and in-ground landscaping to carry on the effect.

Omri Amsalem
Bedroom - asian master medium tone wood floor bedroom idea with white walls