Outdoor Living Rooms 
SPLENDID feature of this age is the increasing enjoyment of 
outdoor living and activities. More and more people are spending 
their leisure time in the garden or engaging in outdoor past times. 
Even the meals during the warmer months are enjoyed on the 
terrace or porch overlooking the garden. 
This pleasant mode of life has been greatly enhanced through the 
development of enclosed lawns or gardens adjacent to the house fittingly 
termed “outdoor living rooms.’’ Not only do these enclosed areas provide 
privacy and protection from over-2,ealous bree2,es and persons but make 
desirable backgrounds for flowers and lawn. The day is past when the 
majority of people prefer to live in a fish-bowl garden wide open to the 
curious eyes of passers by. 
Almost every home, no matter how limited in area are the grounds 
can have an outdoor living room. All that is needed is the planning and 
planting, and we shall be glad to help you in both cases if you wish. 
The outdoor living room as its name would seem to imply may 
be considered an extra room of the house because of its use and intimacy, 
therefore it should be as closely connected with the house as possible for 
easy access. If it be formal, the outdoor living room should be developed 
on an axis of the porch, the terrace, a door or an important window. 
If informal or naturalistic it should also be placed where it is easily looked 
into and reached from the house. The outdoor living room may be either 
an enclosed flower garden or quiet shady lawn. 
