10 Essentials for the Perfect Outdoor Lounge

One of the best parts of designing in Southern California and Florida is the backyards! These days, especially in SoCal, our clients want their outdoor spaces to be as luxe as the interiors and with improvements in outdoor kitchen and living room textiles and building materials, that is completely possible!

Here are our favorite outdoor spaces to inspire your patio design and some design tips you can implement this Spring and Summer!


Plants & Ponds

Plants, landscaping, and water features help define the space you have to design your outdoor lounge around.

Plants, landscaping, and water features help define the space you have to design your outdoor lounge around.

Plants, landscaping, and water features help define the space you have to design your outdoor lounge around.

Creating Peaceful Moments

In a garden or small outdoor space, you’ll want to focus on creating quiet, peaceful moments so you can pause and bask in the great outdoors.

In a garden or small outdoor space, you’ll want to focus on creating quiet, peaceful moments so you can pause and bask in the great outdoors.

Lamps Plus chairs in Lori Dennis celebrity designer's zen garden backyard

Lamps Plus Griffith Loveseat, Mina Victory Pillows

Stone Water feature in a Old World Spanish style home

Fire Pits

Fire pits help transition from day to night so you can keep the party going strong!

Fire pits help transition from day to night so you can keep the party going strong!

A Little Life

Personally, I love my backyard chickens –all the hipsters are doing it! But creating a space for any outdoor pets to roam is a must.

Outdoor Living Rooms

We work on some incredible indoor-outdoor living spaces and in order to seamlessly transition from indoor to out, we utilize durable fabrics and materials that could just as easily be included inside!

We work on some incredible indoor-outdoor living spaces and in order to seamlessly transition from indoor to out, we utilize durable fabrics and materials that could just as easily be included inside!

Outdoor midcentury modern lounge for Christopher Kennedy's Modernism Week Showhouse by celebrity designer Lori Dennis

View of Los Angeles skyline from this Lori Dennis architectural property in Hollywood Hills

Spring outdoor fabrics make this lounge as chic as one you'd find indoors

Fine Dining

We love experimenting with bringing our indoor chairs outside for a special meal and covering with the impeccably constructed custom dining chair slipcovers from Calico Corners available at CalicoCorners.com.

Dining Al Fresco at a Lori Dennis Spanish home

Spring Outdoor Dining Tablescape by Lori Dennis celebrity interior designerSpanish ceramic tile on outdoor table

Bars

An entertainer’s home isn’t complete without a well-designed and well-stocked bar!

An entertainer’s home isn’t complete without a well-designed and well-stocked bar! An entertainer’s home isn’t complete without a well-designed and well-stocked bar!

An entertainer’s home isn’t complete without a well-designed and well-stocked bar!

Kickin’ It Poolside: Cabanas and Loungers

If the swimming pool is the centerpiece of your backyard, a cabana and some traditional chaise lounges are the way to go!

If the swimming pool is the centerpiece of your backyard, a cabana and some traditional chaise lounges are the way to go!

If the swimming pool is the centerpiece of your backyard, a cabana and some traditional chaise lounges are the way to go!

If the swimming pool is the centerpiece of your backyard, a cabana and some traditional chaise lounges are the way to go!

If the swimming pool is the centerpiece of your backyard, a cabana and some traditional chaise lounges are the way to go!

Designing for Small Spaces Outdoors

Making the most of small patio or balcony with modular and low furnishings and an outdoor rug to tie it all together!

Small Outdoor Space on the balcony of our modern farmhouse penthouse in Los Angeles designed by celebrity interior designer Lori Dennis