Al Karevy
Farmhouse two-story wood gable roof idea in Boston

Placing a fire pit into your outdoor living area is like the final chapter to completing your beautiful Lexington Ky backyard. It adds a sense of elegance and style that you will truly appreciate for years to come. A fire pit will help bring your friends and family closer as you enjoy a quiet evening, or even a rockin party together. Folks just naturally tend to gravitate towards a fire. What this means is that your fire pit is going to be a welcome addition to your home and your life, for years to come. Photo By Outdoor Living "By Design" Lexington KY

This new modern house is located in a meadow in Lenox MA. The house is designed as a series of linked pavilions to connect the house to the nature and to provide the maximum daylight in each room. The center focus of the home is the largest pavilion containing the living/dining/kitchen, with the guest pavilion to the south and the master bedroom and screen porch pavilions to the west. While the roof line appears flat from the exterior, the roofs of each pavilion have a pronounced slope inward and to the north, a sort of funnel shape. This design allows rain water to channel via a scupper to cisterns located on the north side of the house. Steel beams, Douglas fir rafters and purlins are exposed in the living/dining/kitchen pavilion. Photo by: Nat Rea Photography

Placing a fire pit into your outdoor living area is like the final chapter to completing your beautiful Lexington Ky backyard. It adds a sense of elegance and style that you will truly appreciate for years to come. A fire pit will help bring your friends and family closer as you enjoy a quiet evening, or even a rockin party together. Folks just naturally tend to gravitate towards a fire. What this means is that your fire pit is going to be a welcome addition to your home and your life, for years to come. Photo By Outdoor Living "By Design" Lexington KY

Inspiration for a landscaping in Other.

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Photo: Rikki Snyder © 2016 Houzz
Staircase - eclectic staircase idea in Portland Maine

Paul Craig photo for Cochrane Design featuring Chesney's Clandon Bolection mantel & Universal fire basket with Spherical andirons.
Living room - mid-sized transitional enclosed living room idea in New York with blue walls and a standard fireplace

Placing a fire pit into your outdoor living area is like the final chapter to completing your beautiful Lexington Ky backyard. It adds a sense of elegance and style that you will truly appreciate for years to come. A fire pit will help bring your friends and family closer as you enjoy a quiet evening, or even a rockin party together. Folks just naturally tend to gravitate towards a fire. What this means is that your fire pit is going to be a welcome addition to your home and your life, for years to come. Photo By Outdoor Living "By Design" Lexington KY

Placing a fire pit into your outdoor living area is like the final chapter to completing your beautiful Lexington Ky backyard. It adds a sense of elegance and style that you will truly appreciate for years to come. A fire pit will help bring your friends and family closer as you enjoy a quiet evening, or even a rockin party together. Folks just naturally tend to gravitate towards a fire. What this means is that your fire pit is going to be a welcome addition to your home and your life, for years to come. Photo By Outdoor Living "By Design" Lexington KY

Kevin G. Smith
Living room - contemporary living room idea in Seattle with a wood stove

Placing a fire pit into your outdoor living area is like the final chapter to completing your beautiful Lexington Ky backyard. It adds a sense of elegance and style that you will truly appreciate for years to come. A fire pit will help bring your friends and family closer as you enjoy a quiet evening, or even a rockin party together. Folks just naturally tend to gravitate towards a fire. What this means is that your fire pit is going to be a welcome addition to your home and your life, for years to come. Photo By Outdoor Living "By Design" Lexington KY

Beach style dining room photo in New York

This simple brick ranch already had a stout pathway of redstone pavers and thick cut steps when our designer came out to meet the prospective client, but the rest of the yard was 'literally' drowning in a slope-sea of turf. The lone tree in front was frankly, lonely-looking. To take advantage of this sunny location, Ecoscape's designer, Sue Rigdon, pared down the amount of turf, and tapped into to pathway-stair focal point. By nesting moss-rock boulders along the stairs, pocket plantings of delosperma (ice plant), sedums ('dragonsblood' & 'Angelique'), and 'Snow in Summer', enjoy a protected 'micro-climate'. The diversity of perennial plants are much easier to tend to, and provide pollinator forage, instead of turf-monoculture with no pollen.

This log home cottage was originally built in 2002. The living room, kitchen, dining, laundry, stairwell, and second level bedroom remodel was completed in October of 2018. The goal was to update and brighten up a traditional log home. Wood tends to darken over time so much of the interior cedar paneling, log overlays and walls were painted a soft white. The area between the living room and the dining area was opened and wood flooring replaced carpet and tile. The existing wood floor was sanded and stained to match the new material. The kitchen bar was removed and an island installed to allow for better traffic flow. Cabinetry was painted, new counter tops and tile backsplash were added along with new wallpaper. The old color palette of red and green has been changed to an updated blue and white. New furnishings and window treatments also reflect the new color scheme. The interior area has been transformed into a brand-new comfortable space.

Example of an eclectic deck design in New York

This maple kitchen features Starmark cabinets in the Bridgeport door style with a Marshmallow Cream Tinted Varnish finish and a Caesarstone Jet Black countertop.