Outdoor Spaces

Do you take your building and design skills outdoors? Here is some outdoor inspiration for you.

This post on finehomebuilding.com showcases some fun creativity. This outdoor space won Fine Homebuilding‘s 2014 Break Out of the Indoors photo contest. You can see their work here.

Not looking for a train ride around a pond? Author Jamie Maloney covers some outdoor design fundamentals in Drawing Board. You can read the entire article here.

This gallery, also from the Break Out of the Indoors photo contest, is sure to inspire. There are multiple projects featured including a “Fern House” and a “Backyard Cat Ranch.” Yes, you read that right. Check it out here.

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    Jelkstrish | | #1

    Great project at all.

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    golihill | | #2

    awesome work

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    nice job

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    DonnaLee7 | | #4

    great creativity at all

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    gud manage at all

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