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This Hilltop home’s outdoor living room began with a common design directive—provide privacy and shade—and solution: flexible shade sails positioned over a concrete patio. But after a year, it became clear to the homeowner that a commonplace concept just wasn’t going to cut it. “[The homeowner] wanted something sculptural and extraordinary,” says Paul Wrona, a principal at landscape architecture firm Elevate By Design. Specifically, the client envisioned a take on a traditional teahouse, built with the same palette of metal and wood used inside and outside his home. “We all fell in love with the idea,” Wrona says, and the team got to work designing a structure tall enough to match the home’s roofline, wide enough to mirror the sunken patio’s footprint, but still small enough to feel inviting and cozy.

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The battery box used to power the faucet’s sensor can short circuit, overheat and/or melt, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers.

Still, the panels from OLEDWorks are more pleasing to behold. The LG Display manufacturing scheme uses a layer with a conductive matrix to spread current evenly in the panel. You have to be relatively close to the panel to be able to see the grid, but once you know it’s present, it’s hard to forget that it’s there.

When a style with deep relief is used, it is customary to use border panels or tiles with low relief around ceiling perimeters. Alternatively, adventurous designers can achieve interesting effects by expressing the panel or tile profile at the ceiling perimeter.

Powder-coated-steel support posts and beams give the structure stability while visually anchoring the space. Ipe wood slats lend a sense of softness. To achieve some irregularity in the design, Wrona’s team created a rendering with a generic layout of the slats, then the homeowner and Chad Beall of Tree Frog Woodworking adjusted the design as they laid each piece on site, leaving one side open to “invite an existing L-shaped water feature into the space,” Wrona says. A screen designed to look like a smaller version of the teahouse provides privacy for an adjacent outdoor kitchen. A minimalist fire feature designed by Denver architecture firm Entasis Group, smartly placed LED up- and downlights on the teahouse, and orb-shaped light fixtures wash the outdoor room with a warm glow, rounding out a design that’s functional by day—and downright magical by night.

For large-scale artworks, notes Russell, companies such as Modulightor and Academy Light can make extremely large picture lights capable of illuminating great expanses.

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