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The summer has started now for real! Hopefully, we have had the worst rain showers for now and it’s finally time for the sun to start shining. The overlap between outside and inside in the interior design industry already has been happening for a while. Urban jungles are created inside the house and outside they are being decorated as a second living room with rugs, cushions, benches and outdoor workplaces included. We also see a growing number of big interior brands who start to present their own exterior collection next to their decoration collection, so you can keep on using the same style for both indoor and outdoor.

Is your 2nd leaving room already summer proof? Check out the serveral inspiring examples to connect your garden and living room.

Simon Watson – Lost in time Hay – outdoor collection

TINY K HOME ZEN GARDEN

Bron: Blood and Champaign

WOOLLAHRA

LE SINOPLE, PARIS GIANNI BOTSFORD – SUTHERLAND PLACE

Bron: Thestylebox Francis Brodi House

ZW6 JJLOCATIONS

FERNANDA MARQUES

PIA ENGHILD NEUMAN HAYNER ARCHITECTS

INSIDE OUT NATHAN BURKETT

Restaurant Vegetal Birgitta Wolfgang Drejer

Open, Transparent and Flexible. This is required by many people for a living and working space.

A space that posesses all these functions and fulfills all the requirements challenges the user to utilize the entire space, to engage and to interact. But a room with these features can also have it’s disadvantages. For the acoustics, privacy and the possibility to focus it’s not the best option.

Furthermore, in te interior of your offices you want to take into account different types of employees in order to get the most out or your people and the environment.

We are noticing that more and more designers come up with solutions to reduce the feeling of privacy and intimacy in open workplaces and public areas. The space is then often divided into various zones in a transparent manner. Hereby, you can both enjoy the openness and the privacy and it gives you the possibility to create multiple characters in one room.

The trend ‘creating spaces’ offers protection from overstimulation, it allows intimacy in varying degrees, meets the changing needs of both humans and environment and it shows the way in which design affects the space.