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Friends of ours recently finished the long renovation of their brownstone in Brooklyn; designed by artists, the house is full of interesting ideas. One of the most dramatic is the floor-to-ceiling sliding doors that collapse sideways to open to the lush garden in the back…on two floors no less.\u00a0(Our photographs were taken while the punch-list <\/a>was being done, a few days before our friends moved in; we thought it would be great to have before-and-after photos down the line of the empty-then-lived in house.)<\/p>\n

When the doors are fully open, the house feels like a tree house: the outside is, startlingly, right there…expanding the concept of al fresco.<\/em>..<\/p>\n

Then we started looking for ways to achieve this lovely effect with more modest means……<\/p>\n

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…and stumbled on other permutations of the moveable outside wall idea.\u00a0Megan Woo told us about her neighbors whose kitchen opened to the garden via an electronic garage door. She didn’t have a photo so we went hunting and found a bunch…<\/p>\n

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Deborah Whitlaw Llewellyn\/Coastal Living<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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New York Magazine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…We came across pictures of two different houses in Noe Valley whose garages (with door intact) were transformed into a moveable living area wall…<\/p>\n

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