{"id":1895,"date":"2010-05-13T09:13:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T16:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2015-01-12T12:46:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T17:46:03","slug":"great-outdoor-living-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/great-outdoor-living-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Outdoor Living Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"

A key ingredient in most outdoor living spaces<\/a> is a well-planned and\u00a0fully equipped kitchen. To further impress, you can add a fireplace, television, stereo system and high-end teak or wrought iron furniture. A popular design trend is having your outdoor kitchen appliances encased in an island or cooking center constructed of concrete, brick, stucco, slate, limestone or similar counters and bases.<\/p>\n

Before you go out shopping you’ll need to decide how you plan on using and designing your outdoor space. Do you want to create a retreat or an entertainment space? Do you need a space for food preparation and storage or will a grill be enough? Is a wet bar or hot tub a must for entertaining? Perhaps a combination of all these ideas can be used to create a special outdoor living<\/a> space that your family and friends can enjoy.<\/p>\n

Almost all of our designers and architects are adding an outdoor living space<\/a> to their house plans<\/a>, so you can easily create and customize your own private retreat. The latest issue of Dream Designs<\/a> highlights some great outdoor living designs.<\/p>\n

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A key ingredient in most outdoor living spaces is a well-planned and\u00a0fully equipped kitchen. To further impress, you can add a fireplace, television, stereo system and high-end teak or wrought iron furniture. A popular design trend is having your outdoor kitchen appliances encased in an island or cooking center constructed of concrete, brick, stucco, slate, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,3],"tags":[45,341,141],"class_list":["post-1895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-house-plans","category-new-home-construction","tag-house-plans","tag-outdoor-kitchens","tag-outdoor-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9483,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/9483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}