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51 Ideas for Outdoor Dining Rooms

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51 Ideas for Outdoor Dining Rooms

51 Ideas for Outdoor Dining Rooms

Set the scene for great outdoor parties or merely dinner for two

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Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Keep the Atmosphere Warm

This best-of-both-worlds kitchen has warm timber paneling like a cozy bungalow but also lets in the breeze on summer evenings. A grill and prep station built right into the well-ventilated space minimise mealtime trip-ups back into the main house.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Gracious Entryway

This outdoor living room and dining room adds 320 square feet to a home that is only 750 square feet to start with. Visitors walk through this open-plan outdoor space on their route to the front door, building it seem as though this small house has a large foyer.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Dining Room with a Lawn

With a growing household, a home business, and a large dog vying for space in this 1910 Seattle bungalow, it just made sense to move something outside. Now the family does much of its dining and entertaining on an outdoor patio just off the kitchen. The wide panes of glass and a back door that’s always open on nice days erase the distinction between indoor and outdoor space.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

An Exotic Backyard Nook

This homeowner made an outdoor dining region on a brick patio, using rustic raw timber benches and an iron and marble table. What sounds like a recipe for brutalism is in fact cozy and bohemian, thanks to colorful cushions, lush greenery and flowers, and gauzy, artfully draped table runners.

Erin Kunkel

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Erin Kunkel

Copper Cool

Dress up your outdoor dining room for a season of fun. Neutral patio furniture gets a lift when you add chairs in the of-the-moment metallic, copper. These wire chairs from Los Angeles-based Bend Goods will seem just as good inside when the season ends. Repurpose a console table from inside to give your spirits setup a sense of permanence–and have a drawer to stash bar tools. When you’re entertaining, incorporate the color of the night’s cocktail in the centerpiece: instant topic. The hot pink of pincushion flowers( Leucospermum) lookings right at home with a Campari punch.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Southwest Style

At night, this candlelit Moroccan lantern illuminates the wooden Mexican table and cafe chairs. Committed to keeping her home as wild as she found it, Susan Stella left the wisteria vine gloriously overgrown, enveloping the patio in leafy splendor. “It’s my favorite place to work, write, and entertain.”

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Mixed Media

This outdoor living space wins at its texture game. The minimalist dining room interplays rustic timber with a smooth concrete tabletop. Beneath the table, crushed oyster shells create a permeable surface for easy cleanup.

Kurt Boomer Photography

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Kurt Boomer Photography

Sweet Chandelier

If your gardening to-do list includes pruning deciduous shrubs and trees, recycle some of the clippings to make a twinkling natural chandelier. Hang the hoop from a branch above a long table for your next backyard event.

David Fenton

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David Fenton

Party Space

Beth Mullins combined old bricks with new, whitewashed ones and laid them in crisp lines for her patio. She then preferred a teak outdoor dining table to finish the outdoor area. It’s a great texture contrast with the brick, and it ties in with the fence. “Combining the bricks with the wooden furniture helped the whole look be more modern, ” she says.

Dana Miller

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Dana Miller

Pint-Size Perfection

Just big enough for a picnic table, this brick landing generates an outdoor dining room in a small Denver backyard. Homeowner and architect Renee del Gaudio intentionally placed the terrace as far from the house as possible so it feels like a retreat. To maintain expenses down, she and her husband used bricks they unearthed while remodel their turn-of-the-1 9th-century home. In the distance, a translucent door lets in light yet maintains privacy.

Jim Henkens

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Jim Henkens

Versatile Furnishings

Furniture should come first when designing outdoor rooms. You have to think about what you want out of the space. Is it a table for four? A lounge? This outdoor dining room is the go-to for larger dinner parties. The Janus et Cie table steals the scene. But the space has flexibility–a stone bench and a bistro table also make for more intimate, casual dinners.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Private Retreat

Tucked into a patio corner near the chamber of representatives, this dining area feels enclosed, thanks to a billowy tea tree( Leptospermum petersonii ). Mexican pebbles fill spaces between sand-finished pavers creating a permeable surface. The forest green accents of the table bring out the best of the surrounding foliage.

Andrea Gomez Romero

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Andrea Gomez Romero

Sunken Sofa

Ideal for a small crowd, this sunken patio in Matt Nuss and Joy Mashaal’s backyard in Venice, California, is perfect for a holiday meal. A built-in firepit warms the cozy space; hopseed bushes lining the wall create a feeling of seclusion year-round, while Western redbuds on either side show off their first touches of fall gold before shedding their leaves.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Comfy Courtyard

Concrete pavers mimic the herringbone pattern of this home’s kitchen floor. Cushioned wicker chairs slide up to a reclaimed timber farmhouse table for ultimate comfort. Cypress and olive trees on the perimeter of the garden offer privacy and an Italian feel.

Marion Brenner

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Marion Brenner

Lush Surroundings

Just two plants transform this outdoor dining room in Atherton, California, into a lush, private retreat. Rambling along a high steel trellis, wisteria dangles fragrant blue-violet flowers and generates a leafy summertime canopy. Euphorbia characias’ Humpty Dumpty’, an evergreen perennial, fills in below; the chartreuse flowerlike bracts add brightness to the understory throughout the season. Both plants are water-wise and need little maintenance.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Stylish Cement

Four Dan Wood stools offer casual seat around a Hive Cement Dining Table. The mixed materials create an informal feel, while the muted colors ensure the space still feels sophisticated and high style. Planter beds on either side create a dedicated outdoor dining room with a sense of intimacy and enclosure.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Pre-Loved Patio

In the spirit of Earth Day, celebrated for the first time in 1970, old materials find new use in the backyard. The deck was constructed from bits and pieces left behind by the house’s previous owners; the farmhouse table and the bench were made from salvaged scaffolding.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Outdoor Bar

Elaine Barden foresaw her backyard retreat as “Palm Springs meets W Hotel style.” Her decorators selected a custom fabricated aluminum arbor above an outdoor bar. The squad constructed it on-site and painted it silver to match the wall sconces. Redwood slats cover the top.

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Redwood Arbor

A steel-and-redwood arbor shades this dining patio. Just beyond this main gathering spot, the square colored concrete pavers create another patio where guests can collect. Woolly thyme grows between pavers beyond.

Linda Lamb Peters

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Linda Lamb Peters

Pallet to Table

Shipping pallets lurk everywhere: abandoned behind grocery store, stacked in the corners of big-box parking lots. Bay Area bloggers Matti Salomaki and Megan Speckmann decided to remake a piece of this suburban flotsam into something useful–and beautiful. Taking apart a pallet, they constructed a tabletop from its committees, coated it with natural wax stain, and attached legs they’d found at a garage sale. And the genius touch? A living table runner that consists of a sunken, succulent-filled box( complete with drainage holes) secured to the table’s underside.

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Superb Salvage

A pair of red antique school benches that Amy Swift Crosby bought when she was single, and has been toting around ever since, are a perfect match for the distressed dining table. Her husband Josh turned salvage redwood into this sturdy table. The gravel patio lets excess water flow to the ground beneath.

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Charming Cobblestone

Rectangular chunks of tumbled Connecticut bluestone, set on a bed of decomposed granite and sand, kind a 12 -foot-diameter dining patio in a wooded Berkeley backyard. The natural dining set ties perfectly into the fairytale backyard.

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Pavement to Tabletop

Big enough to seat eight people and sturdy enough to last a few lifetimes, this dining table could almost pass for Italian terrazzo. But it’s made of concrete, which landscape decorator Steve Siegrist cut with a concrete foresee from paving in this L.A. backyard during a garden remodel.

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Rooftop Oasis

No grass , no problem. For city dwellers, think upward for your outdoor dining room. “We’ve got a backyard–it’s only on the roof, ” says Mark Egerstrom. “It feels like a treehouse up there above it all.” Add a chic container garden alongside a simple picnic table for a lush party atmosphere.

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Farmer’s Market

Conor Fitzpatrick turned his Los Angeles backyard into an edible paradise. “There’s no better fruits and veggies than from your own garden, ” Conor says. Summer through fall, he prepares his harvest in fresh meals to serve at this cute garden-side table. Simple wood furnishings allow the crops to glisten in the dining decor.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Rustic Dining Room

This open-air dining room features reclaimed redwood siding salvaged from an abandoned water tower that once served a local stage coach station on California’s central coast.

More: Fabulous barn style by Monterey Bay

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Social Backyard

At 1,800 square feet, Chris and Eric Fenmore’s home in Corona del Mar, California, can feel a little snug. So Chris designed a backyard that lets her move the party outdoors.

“Cooking and dining out here are pure pleasures, ” she says. “I feel like I’m in an elegant campground.”

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Tuscan Dining: The Courtyard

Designer Paul Hendershot calls his Ojai, Calif. garden “a Mediterranean courtyard without walls.”

The centerpiece is a concrete-topped table( more on that next slide ).

Inspired by the casual elegance of Mediterranean-style gardens, Hendershot carpeted his patio with pea gravel. “It feels good to walk on when barefoot, ” he says.

A pepper tree offer light tint on hot days. To complement the tree — and the garden’s overall seem — Hendershot also planted boxwood, ‘Provence’ lavender, Myrtus communis ‘Compacta'( which he likes for its smell ), and upright rosemary.

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Thomas J. Story

Tuscan Dining: The Table

A cast-concrete table is the focal point of the outdoor dining area. “It used to belong to a friend, and I lusted after it for years before I bought it from her, ” designer Hendershot says.

The table has been such a hit with friends that he now takes orders to build similar models on-site in his area( they’re too heavy to ship ). The benches are weathered pine.

Candles and glasses in mixed styles and shades of green and amber look right at home in the casual garden. Miniature bottles of olive oil at each place setting double as placecard holders and gifts for guests.

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Tuscan Dining: The Plan

An outdoor dining region and a conversation region make up Hendershot’s casual, Tuscan-style patio.

There’s also an outdoor bed, where Hendershot sleeps on balmy summer nights. A stone wall separates the live areas from a lower patio.

To give the garden understated elegance at night, Hendershot installed merely a couple of landscape illuminations — one at the base of the pepper tree, the other at the base of an oak.

They’re directed up into the tree canopies, bathing the shapely branches in soft light. Candles and Moroccan lanterns offer the rest of the night lighting.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Dinner on the Deck

Bob and Cary Woll’s seaside-inspired backyard in Los Osos, California, is as inviting for two as it is for a mob; the Wolls have entertained as many as two dozen guests, comfortably, on the deck.

Benches of ipe timber wrap around most of the deck( also made of ipe ), generous seating.

Garden plants — Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Silver Sheen’, and Acacia cognata — necessitate little in accordance with the rules of watering and upkeep. A tiny succulent in a square pot serves as a simple table centerpiece.

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Thomas J. Story

Create an Outdoor Bar

Outdoor chefs need a place to set their tools, and bartenders must have a bar. The concrete side table beneath the pergola offer room for both while also functioning as a serving counter or buffet table.

Two square cabinets on casters, tucked underneath offer storage. They can also be rolled into action as serving tables or additional seating.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Warming Firepit

A created concrete trough filled with recycled glass keeps the dining deck warm on cool nights.

When not in use, the gas firepit can be covered with a slab of ipe timber, which converts it into a coffee table.

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Dinner on the Deck: The Plan

The plan shows how the kitchen courtyard, food counter, dining region, and seating work together to create a perfect party space.

Tips from these outdoor dining rooms :P TAGEND

Built-in countertops in or near the dining area are handy, but if you don’t have them, portable carts or side tables will do the job well.

Situate your dinner table under a large tree, patio overhang, vine-covered arbor, pergola, or colorful market umbrella.

Use your garden to inspire tableware and decorating choices.

Ahead: More great notions for dining outside

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Steven Gunther

Dramatic Desert Dining

For this project, landscape architect Steve Martino tried something better — aluminum flashing.

He wove it through rebar uprights like a ribbon, creating a glamorous shimmering privacy wall near the outdoor dining area.

More: See the rest of this dramatic desert garden

Christina Schmidhofer

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Christina Schmidhofer

Hillside Dining Hideaway

Problem: How do you create an outdoor dining region in a tight backyard against a immerse uphill slope?

Solution: You dig it out. Armed with pick and shovel, interior designer Linda Applewhite and her husband, Marshall Miller, excavated a 15 – by 20 -foot semicircular region out of the hillside.

More: How they did it

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Eco Outdoor Dining

A wall of blue tile from Heath Ceramics sets the mood for this San Francisco garden dining area, constructing the backyard feel more like a room.

More: Eco design goes glam in San Francisco

Grey Crawford

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Grey Crawford

Patio Kitchen

Architect Colin Sarjeant opened up this house and connected it to a new outdoor dining space carved out of the front yard. It’s where everyone wants to go.

See the kitchen before and after

Norm Plate

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Norm Plate

Dream Backyard

First-time homeowners Jordan and Leanne Rubin — having merely the scantiest experience in construction, design, and gardening — decided to convert part of a parking pad into a courtyard for summer dining and entertaining.

More: Build your dream backyard

Norm Plate

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Norm Plate

Flying Colors

Colorful fabrics give this gazebo drama — especially when illuminate from within.

Saris form the walls; canvas panels cover the top. The illuminate feature is of steel tubing with fiberglass cones over 20 -watt bulbs.

More: How to create a magical outdoor dining room

Karyn R. Millet

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Karyn R. Millet

Naturally Cool

When the house gets too warm in summer, homeowners Gabe Gelbart and Paul Rhoadzhagen simply move outdoors to one of the several small open-air rooms they’ve created to expand their living space.

This alfresco dining area is just outside the kitchen; lit by the sun and cooled by the breeze, it consumes zero energy.

More: How to easily create an eco-friendly landscape

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Mediterranean Patio

A cast limestone fountain with an antique finish adds a Mediterranean-inspired accent to this narrow front patio in Sacramento, Calif. The wall blocks the sight and sound of street traffic nearby.

More: A narrow front patio becomes a handsome dining area

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Smart Outdoor Dining

See more about this Idea House: One smart house

This Idea House wraps around a pond courtyard and climbs a mound to capture beautiful mound views.

Herbs and vegetables mix with ornamental plants in the front yard.

The two-story veranda off the master suite was inspired by a similar feature at playwright Eugene O’Neill’s Tao House in nearby Danville, Calif.

James Carrier

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James Carrier

Party Umbrella

Dress up a few lanterns with ribbon, add some sunny fabric, and your plain canvas umbrella is ready to party.

Do it yourself: Get the how-to

The decorations aren’t permanent, so you can change the colourings anytime you wish.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Reinvented Space

The Green family use their driveway as a second kitchen and dining room. There’s a barbecue, a sideboard, and a dining table and chairs.

Lisa Romerein

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Lisa Romerein

Cabana-Style Dining

To connect the building to the pool and offer a shelter for snacks, the designer designed a shade trellis. “Before, it got viciously hot, ” homeowner Peter Maunu says. “Now we use the area a lot for dining or hanging out.”

More: Cool Cabana Style

Steven A. Gunther

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Steven A. Gunther

Flagstone Furnishings

This custom-built dining table is right at home in this Southwestern courtyard.

The table is made from the same flagstone as the slender serving counter tucked against the wall.

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Floating Paradise

A sunken dining area on Julie Higgs and Dave Stickler’s Oregon houseboat is warm weather central. The table is a salvaged glass door atop ceramic planters.

The lushly planted deck often serves as decideds for outdoor feasts replete with pitchers of Tahitian rum cocktails and platters of prawns. It all has the feel of a permanent vacation.

Steven Gunther

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Steven Gunther

Mission Magic

The earthy oranges and Pacific blue tones of the San Jose tile plaque on the wall are repeated in paint, table surface, and bloom colorings. The paint by Nancy Kintisch was waterproofed for outdoors.

More: See the rest of this magical garden

Thomas J. Story

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Thomas J. Story

Art Patio

In their rear garden, lined with olive trees, Jeff Reed and Jennifer Madden enjoy an alfresco snack at a sculptural table they created.

More: See this artful house

Steven Gunther

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Steven Gunther

Old-World Kitchen Garden

Dining and gardening combination in this elegant potager, where herbs and veggies grow near the table.

More: See how this garden runs