Last Updated on March 18, 2025
The lines between indoor and outdoor living spaces continue to blur as more and more homeowners are springing for expansive outdoor entertaining areas. Ready to turn your backyard into an oasis? Here is what’s trending in outdoor living for 2025.
Outdoor living area connected to a living room
Homeowners renovating or looking to purchase a luxury home are all craving one thing–ample entertaining space. Homes designed with pass-through windows that easily double entertaining space and give you open access to an outdoor living area by way of ultra-sleek bi-fold windows are highly desirable.
Porches that feel like living rooms
Gone are the days of stiff, uncomfortable fabrics being the only option for outdoor living spaces. In response to the massive push to bring the indoors out over the last several years, retailers have responded by offering large advances in performance fabrics and increased outdoor furnishing offerings. Today’s outdoor porches, decks and patios rival living rooms, complete with plenty of comfortable seating, rugs, pillows, fireplaces, TVs, and climate-control features.
Beyond the grill
Outdoor grills have long been a mainstay in outdoor spaces, but homeowners are now searching for more than just something designed to cook burgers. Pizza ovens, smokers, ceramic kamando-style barbecues, and grills that use wood or charcoal are all popular now.
Full outdoor kitchens
Forget just wanting a chef’s kichen for the indoors. Many are now craving a fully functional kitchen for the great outdoors, too. Perfect for dining al fresco, entertaining friends or family, or hosting a pizza night, thanks to your new brick pizza oven integration, outdoor kitchens have it all.
The swankiest outdoor kitchens are designed for seamless entertaining, featuring granite countertops, prep space with a large sink, storage, an ice maker, a mini fridge, a beer tap and of course, a large outdoor TV.
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