The line between indoors and outdoors grows fuzzier all the time in high-end houses. Kitchens and media centers are no longer confined to the indoors, while water features and putting greens are no longer restricted to the outdoors.
No, the world hasn’t gone topsy turvy, it’s simply that homeowners want to use and enjoy every part of their property come rain or shine. What could be better than to step outside to prepare and eat a meal or to gather with friends in front of the fireplace or even the plasma TV? If the weather is really fine, why not slide open a wall and let indoors mingle with outdoors? And when you must be inside, hearing the murmur of a brook flowing by and seeing the beauty of the landscape framed in every window make the house a richer place to be.
The most livable custom homes give their owners many ways to enjoy the environment in all its moods: outdoor areas for playing in the sun, sheltered outdoor areas for socializing and shade, and those most important transitional spaces like porches and covered terraces that can open to, enlarge, and blur the distinction between outdoors and indoors. For most custom home owners that fuzzy line between inside and out makes perfect sense.
