Considering a garden as an outdoor room is nothing new to outdoor living room designers. But just what are outdoor living rooms? Are they places where you try to recreate your indoor living room outdoors? To create an outdoor living room with full, year-round protection from the elements, install a solid patio cover made of wood beams or slats. This sense of being enclosed, thus protected, is what makes a room comfortable to be in. There are other things that bring a feeling of comfort but they are secondary to this primary sense of enclosure. More about outdoor living room…