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Welcome additions A window-walled dining nook offers year-round backyard dining.

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Welcome additions A window-walled dining nook offers year-round backyard dining.

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A perfectly placed storage shed bumps up the wow factor of a pretty perennial bed.

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A perfectly placed storage shed bumps up the wow factor of a pretty perennial bed.

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SQUATTING ON THE half-acre property where I grew up was a metal shed that my family called “the little house.” I’m not sure if “little house” referred to my tendency to pretend that I was Laura Ingalls from Little House on the Prairie and that the utilitarian outbuilding was my humble late-1800s homestead. But regardless of its origin, the term still seems to me…