A trio of winners from the Best in American Living Awards offer innovative designs to address site-specific challenges.

This undated photo provided by Ed Castro Landscape, Inc. shows the courtyard outside a home in Atlanta, Ga. By Melissa Kossler Dutton, The Associated Press The trend toward outdoor living, which uses ...

The trend of indoor/outdoor living is spilling onto the fronts and sides of homes across the Las Vegas Valley. Elaborate entryways and courtyards are being incorporated into homes to meet the ...

Nicely suited to Portland's space-constrained urban lots, the entry courtyard is a perennial favorite among city dwellers eager to carve out an intimate outdoor space buffered from street noise and ...

Outside is the new in at Tuscan Cliffs in Southern Highlands. The collection of semi-custom luxury homes has set the standard for indoor-outdoor living with its signature New Millennium Custom Home ...

The trend toward outdoor living, which uses comfy seating, bright rugs and weatherproof art to extend the al fresco season at home, is bringing new attention to a centuries-old architectural feature: ...

The trend toward outdoor living, which uses comfy seating, bright rugs and weatherproof art to extend the al fresco season at home, is bringing new attention to a centuries-old architectural feature: ...

This week's "posh place" is a newly constructed Peoria mansion with a spark of Old World charm. A front courtyard greets visitors to the one-acre estate — but the pleasure is for invited guests only.