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Al Fresco Dining Spaces for Spring Evenings

These outdoor areas are ideal places to enjoy the longer daylight hours.
The change to daylight saving time this month welcomed sunlight into the dinner hour—a perfect excuse to take the last meal of the day outside. Here are three spaces perfect for springtime al fresco dining, imagined by local designers for houses in Maryland and Virginia.
For this Arlington, Virginia, house designed by New York firm Resolution: 4 Architecture, Washington, DC–based landscape architecture firm Moody Graham created a large dining area in the courtyard. Read more about the project, featured in our September/October 2022 issue. Read More…

PHOTO: Allen Russ

As part of a garden renovation for a Mediterranean-inspired house in McLean, Virginia, Washington, DC–based landscape architecture firm Oehme, van Sweden fashioned a dining terrace with bluestone surrounded by crape myrtle. Read more about the project, featured in our May/June 2024 issue. Read More…

PHOTO: Andrea Hanks

Two Virginia design firms, landscape architects Horn & Co. and Lauren Liess Interior Design, collaborated to imagine a gravel terrace surrounded by hydrangeas and roses for a 1905 landmarked property in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Read more about the project, featured in our May/June 2025 issue. Read More…

PHOTO: Allen Russ

 

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