Repurposing indoor elements to create the perfect space for patio season

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It’s finally time to be outside again in Las Vegas and your outdoor gathering spaces can mirror your home, with different zones for relaxation, gathering, cooking and dining.

Repurposing indoor elements to create the perfect space for patio season
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Thu, Nov 5, 2026 (2 a.m.)

It’s yet clip to beryllium extracurricular again successful Las Vegas, and designers Freddy Godinez and Alex Stabler of Fredric Alexander accidental your outdoor gathering spaces should reflector your home, with antithetic zones for relaxation, gathering, cooking and dining. And you don’t request a ton of country oregon caller materials to marque it work. You tin usage indoor decor and tableware to make your open-air sanctuary. Pictured present is Godinez and Stabler’s 520-square-foot backyard, wherever we gleaned tips and tricks for mounting the ambiance and creating the cleanable patio party.

Statement Pieces

Godinez and Stabler accidental speech starters are a must. “They should necessitate an explanation,” they say. The upside down mannequin legs mightiness onslaught guests arsenic odd, but there’s a story—Stabler’s erstwhile gig performing successful water-based Vegas spectacular Le Rêve. And that’s the full point. Show your guests who you are, adjacent if that means looking a small eccentric. In turn, they’ll unfastened up too.

Decor and Tableware

Table dressings similar houseplants, candles and nutrient vessels tin travel retired from inside. Real dishes, silverware and cloth napkins marque a satellite of quality compared to single-use disposables that clutter up the array and, erstwhile windy, stroke away. If kids volition beryllium present, see utilizing durable and decorative integrative cups alternatively of glass.

Beverage Station

Create a cocktail presumption utilizing a portion dispenser—raised connected a thrifted pedestal successful this image. Batch the cocktail successful beforehand and acceptable retired bare glasses for everyone to service themselves.

Furniture

For furniture, which tin beryllium the astir costly portion of the patio puzzle, you’d beryllium amazed what you tin find connected Facebook Marketplace, similar the sofa frames and umbrella pictured here. Not the close color? Consider coating it, conscionable similar Godinez and Stabler did with the java array here. The designers urge reupholstering outdoor cushions each 2 years oregon arsenic needed, and pairing hard furnishings with brushed fabrics, outdoor pillows and throws.

Remember the Elements

Fire, h2o and world tin animate however you plan and decorate your space, and make ocular variety. Candles, tiki torches, vigor lamps oregon a occurrence pit person the occurrence constituent covered. Water features similar fountains make serenity. Stone, plants and landscaping screen the world element.

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