step outside

{photos: Traditional Home}

How's this for an outside retreat?!  

The (lucky) owners of this space hired designer David Pfeiffer to transform the area outside, just off the kitchen, into an alfresco paradise.  Pfeiffer likes to ensure that clients live as easily outdoors as they do indoors, making a strong connection between the interior and exterior.

"One of Pfeiffer's favorite ploys is to have edibles, like the grapes over the dining arbor, and blueberry bushes and strawberry plants in the borders, do double duty as ornamentals. Scent, too, is easy to enjoy in small enclosed gardens, and perfumed plants are prominent here." (Traditional Home)

Yummy.