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I’ve been flipping through this before bed every night since it arrived—the garden design chapters are laid out so clearly that I actually sketched out my own patio plan by page 30. It’s the rare coffee table book that’s both gorgeous to leave out and genuinely useful when you’re planning a summer d

The outdoor entertaining section completely changed how I set up my patio for dinners. I wasn't expecting a coffee table book to have such practical layout advice, but the diagrams on sightlines and flow are genuinely useful.

I bought this after staring at my bare patio for months, and the entertaining sections finally gave me a plan I could actually pull off. The layout advice for small spaces was more useful than I expected from a coffee table book.