Décor Finds for Small Outdoor Spaces .

With the weather warming up, it’s time to move the festivities outdoors. These smaller scale finds are sure to spruce up your space and make outdoor living comfortable and beautiful.

1 Montecito Outdoor Pillow Cover
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Gone are the days when outdoor upholstery can be easily spotted in a lineup. This neutral pillow has sophisticated textural details that are also weather-proof.

2 Roar + Rabbit Glass Side Table
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The metallic base and blue watercolor top of this side table look like they are indoor-only, when in fact, the table is made for both indoors and out. Carry it inside when you need more surface area next to the sofa or leave it out back as a stylish accent.

3 Café Stripe Outdoor Half Umbrella
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The classic cabana umbrella has been cut in half to make it ideal for a small deck or sunny terrace.

4 Yellow Leaf Zanzibar Hammock
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Stretch this hammock across your balcony as you soak up the sun with a good book and roll it up into a small ball when guests arrive and you need the space.

5 Flint Stool
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Less bulky than other exterior furniture, this backless stool is simple in shape and design. Tuck it under a table when not in use to free up path space or use its sturdy wooden top as a mini table for a platter of hors d’oeuvres or summery cocktails.

6 Cleo Blue Indoor/Outdoor Rug

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This pale blue rug will bring interior design sense to your outdoor patio. Made from recycled plastic bottles, it can easily be rinsed clean with a hose. Available in six sizes.

The Secrets to Decorating a Rental Just Right

At the point when a globe-running planner resigns and cuts back, he admirably enrolls a little offer assistance. To get 45 years of craftsmanship — and new pieces in transit — into a petite San Francisco aerie, even a professional needs a master. 

TIM McKEOUGH: John, why did you resign to San Francisco? 

JOHN MAYBERRY: I was situated in Hong Kong for the greater part of my vocation, planning inns and homes all over Asia. Later, I worked in Palm Beach. I gathered craftsmanship all over I went. I'm 71 now, and when I resigned, I picked San Francisco in light of the fact that it has the urban offer of a major city yet is generally little and simple to get around in, even without an auto. 

ANTONIO MARTINS: But before this, he lived in a 4,000-square-foot house in Georgia. He moved from that point to this 900-square-foot condo — and hung the same number of depictions! 

Antonio, how did John wind up turning into your customer? 

AM: A VP at Hyatt presented us when John initially moved here. At that point, at whatever point I had a photograph shoot or showhouse room, I'd constrain him out of retirement to help me style things. So we were at that point companions. 

To plan John's loft, you thought two fashioners were superior to anything one? 

JM: When you're an inside planner taking a shot at your own particular home, it's anything but difficult to second-figure yourself. Another pair of eyes is significant. Antonio is more youthful, so he has diverse perspectives on things and distinctive references. In some cases I concurred with his thoughts, infrequently I didn't. Be that as it may, it was dependably an intriguing dialog. 

How was the condo when you discovered it? 

JM: It's a rental on the Embarcadero in a run of the mill late-1960s building. It has extraordinary perspectives of San Francisco Bay. Be that as it may, it's a straightforward box of a flat. The roofs are just eight feet six creeps, the dividers are grayish, the rug is one end to the other oats — and I can't change any of that. 

That doesn't precisely stable like an architect's fantasy venture. 

JM: The favorable circumstances were area, perspective, comfort and a very much oversaw building. I go to Europe a few times each year. I needed to have the capacity to just bolt the entryway and realize that everything would be protected and secure. 

LAURA RESEN 

Back to your stuff — why did you mount your specialty from floor to roof? 

JM: I had these exhausting clear dividers — there's no boiserie, no crown moldings, nothing of engineering interest. So I utilized my specialty just about as wallpaper, to give the eye something to take a gander at. It likewise outwardly grows the space. After retirement, I began doing Japanese sumi-e ink drawings, which likewise hold tight the dividers. Different flats in the building look littler, despite the fact that mine has a hundred times more things in it. 

How could you have been able to you manage the rug? 

JM: I went to Pottery Barn and purchased sisal carpets with dark cotton authoritative and put them down in each room. 

AM: Instead of purchasing custom sisal — which would have taken a toll thousands — he got standard sizes for a couple of hundred dollars and put them by each other. It would appear that a million bucks.