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Outdoor space: Never an afterthought.

Publication: Qualified Remodeler
Publication Date: 01-MAY-09 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Outdoor space: Never an afterthought.(Feature)

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Outdoor space: Never an afterthought

By Kenneth W. Betz

The best outdoor living spaces are part of a home's design from day one

The outdoor living spaces of the NeMo -- or New Modern -- house in Winter Park, Fla., are hardly afterthoughts. Nor was the house planned merely to accommodate the outdoor living spaces. Rather, the interior and exterior living spaces were conceived as an integral whole.

The outside space was designed into the architecture, explains Phil Kean of Phil Kean Designs in Winter Park, Fla. "I think that outside and inside are extensions of my design; they're planned from the beginning on how to bring them together in the best way possible."

For Kean, designing outdoor living space is not about a tacked-on deck or porch. "It's a whole process in which we design walls of glass that disappear into the walls of the house. Often...

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