Slide Show: Inside Connection

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GOOD LIVING With an outdoor fireplace and picnic table, the patio just outside MK Guth and Greg Landry’s dining room becomes a welcoming extension of their house.

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ROOM WITH A VIEW Entertaining is easy, rain or shine, with a new dining room and deck connected by French doors. Guth and Landry bought their teak dining room table from Chantiques.

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GARDEN TIME MK Guth, Greg Landry, and their cat, Veronica, take in the garden scenery, which is graced by trellised jasmine (right) and spiky purple-and-white acanthus (behind Landry).

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INSPIRATIONAL ORIGINS Architect Martin Houston matched the living room ceiling’s unusual angled corners and exposed joists (above) in the new dining room addition.

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SOAKING UP NATURE Guth and Landry hired contractor Mark Straw to build the fence; designed by Wright Design Office, it curves to shelter the hot tub.

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