Small Space: Found - A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer creates "a room of one's own" just steps from her back door. Here's how you can too.
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July 2008
Find your own private retreat - Marth Mendoza's shed-office is one of 30 backyard oases featured in a new book, Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways: Big Ideas for Small Backyard Destinations by Debra Prinzing, with photography by William Wright.
Sheds are small buildings with limitless functions
805 Living Magazine
June 2008
"In the Garden," Debra's new column for 805 Living magazine, features Santa Barbara architect Jeff Shelton, and his colorful crop of backyard sheds.
Turn that potting shed into a charming, rustic retreat
The San Diego Union-Tribune
May 18th, 2008
The utilitarian potting shed has grown up. That's not to say gardeners no longer need an enclosed, out-of-the-way place for storing tools, stashing the wheelbarror or starting seedlings. But where some see a backyard shed and think "cobwebs and clutter," others eye a few hundred square feet and think "guest room" or "art studio."
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A dark bungalow hits airy heights
Los Angeles Times
May 15th, 2008
Rather than tear down the house in favor of all-new construction, the architects saw value in working within the existing parameters of their client's Westwood bungalow.
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Sheds and hideaways like you've never seen
In “Stylish Sheds and Elegant Hideaways: Big Ideas for Small Backyard Destinations,” design writer Debra Prinzing and photographer William Wright document some of the best examples of diminutive architecture in urban gardens, suburban backyards and rural properties. Here are a few, as described by Prinzing and photographed by Wright.
Los Angeles Times
May 8th, 2008
No longer a dusty shelter for plants or gardening tools, the backyard shed is assuming a new architectural role in the landscape. These tiny buildings offer an attractive and often affordable alternative for creating more space without undergoing a major renovation.
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Jackson & Perkins breeder Keith Zary has a passion for creating some of the world's most spectacular roses.
805 Living Magazine
May 2008
No one has to tell Keith Zary to stop and smell the roses he often spends all day doing just that.
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