A Room with a View: Design garden scenes that look good from Inside the house

摘要

The large window in my home office looks out onto a deep backyard, where weeping willows and majestic sequoias in adjacent properties extend the view so that my back garden looks much bigger than its actual size. This panorama, unfortunately is the exception. Many of the windows in my other rooms—the kitchen, living room, and dining room—face a busy road. It happens quite often. Many of us are burdened with unfortunate views. Sometimes a window in a frequently used family room looks out on a garage next door, or a breakfast nook peers into the neighbor's family room. But with some purposeful planning, it's easy to transform a plain, or even unsightly, view into a beautiful picture and bring the garden into your home every day of the year.