Connecting your home with the outdoors

Bring the heat

Throughout the pandemic, people felt safer connecting with family and friends outdoors, even in the freezing cold. This lead to creative solutions—constructing fire pits, installing heat lamps, or even ensuring they could still have a pool party in December.

A refreshing dip in the pool is the perfect way to wind down after a long day of working from home, but relying on the sun to warm the water leads to inconsistent water temperatures and limits swimming to warmer months. Heated pools invite year-round relaxation, even on cloudy days and cool evenings.

Nothing ruins your swim more than emerging from the warm pool into the cold, outside air. While outdoor space heaters can provide warmth, they only reach short distances. Add warmth to your entire patio by installing radiant heating underneath the tile or concrete surface.

Go with the fold

One area that is often overlooked during renovation is the way we move from one space to another--doors. The doors that lead to the exterior spaces of our home have the ability to control the flow from inside to outside and vice versa.

When hosting a dinner party outside, you want to be able to move smoothly from the kitchen to the patio. Sliding, folding, and french doors enable the visibility and mobility that join two spaces into one. These doors allow for open floor concepts to continue outside with their wide, unobstructed openings.

As an added bonus, on days when you can’t spend time outside, the next best solution is the ability to leave your doors wide open so that fresh air can flow through your home.