Embracing the tranquility of a Zen garden during the cold seasons can transform your outdoor space into a serene sanctuary, even when nature takes a seasonal pause. Minimalist Zen garden designs focus ...

Now more than ever, finding an outdoor refuge is exactly what we all need for peace of mind. A quiet place where you can relax and forget about life for a while doesn’t have to mean a sweeping ...

Creating a garden in an overgrown acreage can be an awesome task. Creating gardens and a Zen Forest would be even more daunting. But George Klasson and Jane Bourgeois knew they could make a tranquil ...

It may seem curious that viewing a sparse landscape of rock and gravel can be an antidote to the day's chaos. But a Zen garden, a minimalist composition of carefully placed stones, is calming — if you ...

Sideyards are among the most neglected spaces in the modern residential landscape. Because the bedrooms usually open onto the sideyard with windows or sliders, they don't get the big design ideas used ...

The cooler weather means it’s the perfect time of year to go traipsing around outside, and the Hong Kong Palace Museum has the perfect chill activity with its first outdoor exhibition. ‘The Hong Kong ...

Desert living doesn’t come chicer than this Arizona home, a rebuilt Mid-Century Modern property with walls of glass, mountain views and a zero-edge pool. The desert home was rebuilt over the past two ...

The dry creek enters Barbara Nims’s Owls Head property from the north and descends gently eastward before it loops south and makes a beeline to the sea. Nims’s house is nestled in that wide curve, ...

If there was ever a time that we could all use some serious Zen, now is it. Luckily, Steven and Kathy Braykovich of Pinckney don't have to travel far for their Zen fix. Just outside their back door, ...