Setting up garden rooms

Having separate outdoor living spaces allows you to create mini-landscape designs (each somewhat different from the rest) for each of them. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

The idea of dividing up your yard into different outdoor rooms and furnishing them to facilitate sitting, cooking, resting and play may sound a little far-fetched at first. To many of us, landscape is all about a cosmetic lawn and flowers.

Yet anyone who has tasted the joy of living in the garden will tell you to forget the enclosure of indoors; there is just something too refreshing about being out in the open on a beautiful sunny day or a calm starry evening.