Want to make your outdoor dining area a magical, tranquil place to take a meal? Here are design-pro —and pieces to buy—to tough-love your patio into an otherworldly escape
Photo:think about Marie Kondo-ing part of your home, it’s unlikely you envision your outdoor space as the would-be masterpiece of tidiness. But this terrace, which London interior designer Rebecca James was hired to transform, cried out for order. “The previous garden wasn’t great, to be honest. It was very dark, cluttered, soulless and lacking structure,” said James.
She set out to reimagine the enclosed rectangle behind a townhouse as the courtyard of a Moroccan riad. Step one: Organizing the dining area around a brazen focal point—a globed light fixture so large she freaked a little when she opened its box. She also imposed symmetry and restraint, limiting materials and patterns, a strategy that belies the magical atmosphere. “You have to keep it quite simplistic and rein yourself in,” said the founder of her eponymous firm.
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