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EXTEND YOUR SPACE WITH AN OUTDOOR ROOM

“For many years we have been asked to design and integrate cabanas, granny flats and outdoor rooms with swimming pools for our clients’ properties,” says John Storch of A Total Concept Landscape Architects, a company that specialises in this type of work. “More recently, clients have been looking to construct cabanas, granny flats and outdoor rooms as stand-alone features to add another use to the external areas of their homes. I believe this is the result of the ongoing trend to fuse internal and external entertaining spaces and consolidate living zones.”

Pool cabanas, granny flats and outdoor rooms are growing in popularity as they allow for a number of diverse uses. These can include a discreet place to towel off after a swim in the

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