Your home is more than your castle, it’s your oasis, and today’s hottest trends in home ownership are all about resort living – at home. What better way to create your personal outdoor living vista than with – you guessed it – floor to ceiling vanishing walls.

Vanishing wall systems aren’t exactly new, but building smart, building green and expanding indoor living into outdoor spaces create today’s best access to your lakefront, oceanfront, poolside or simply fabulous backyard landscaping.

NanaWall® builds pretty much the only game in town and they’ve been doing it for twenty years, so they’ve had lots of practice. In spite of the fact that vanishing wall systems are made up of huge glass panels, I was pretty surprised to learn how durable they are – they have a model that is Dade County (Miami) hurricane approved. Really?

Nana offers a large number of options – types of glass, aluminum or wood, types of wood, folding panels, single track systems, number of panels – you can absolutely find the perfect fit for your home, all to your specifications. Because each system is a custom creation, the pricing is custom too; but the Nana Web site give a range of $600 to $1950 per lineal foot for basic folding systems. Most of the glass is Energy Star rated and has solar gain, so you do get energy efficiency for your money.

Sit back, relax, and bring the outdoors in (or the indoors out) with the flip of a switch. It’s green, it’s beautiful and it’s smart. So cool it’s downright chilly.

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Part barbecue station, part tiki bar - or any other theme you choose, the Barbecue Island is a high-tech modular kitchen that delivers efficiency to your backyard chilling experience.  Each Barbecue Island is custom designed to incorporate dining and bar areas, sinks, storage areas, refrigeradors, and chilled drink dispensers.  The look of these luxury barbecue islands is modern and a step above the competition.

Available through: The Barbecue Island Co.

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Inspired by the Swilken Bridge on the 18th green at St. Andrews in Scotland, the Swilken Bench from Acronym Designs delivers smooth lines, making a nice addition to the crib, especially if you’re a golfer.

According to Acronym, “this bench follows simple structural principals and uses the simplicity of form to showcase the beauty of the wood. Reclaimed hardwoods are constructed into a laminate strip top that shows off the variations in color and figuring in beautiful hardwoods. The smooth curved top is accented with a scalloped underside. Hidden connections keep the bench sleek.”

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Leave the boom box at home. iPods? A thing of the past. Enter the Boombench, a 500 watt speaker-packed bench with eight 60-watt co-axial speakers and two subwoofers accessable through Bluetooth. Simply connect your Bluetooth to this super-sized Docking Station and rock out to 95 db of quality sound. Just think of what it would be like to bump this bench next to your backyard pool, not to mention if you came across one of these babies in the park. Designed by Michael Schoner of NL Architects, check out the Boombench in the video above.

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The Falo designer patio heater, from Flame Heating Design, has a heating radius of 20 feet and can be controled via remote. A nice feature for the cold months that are coming our way this winter. The Falo features a torch-like flame that is totally insensible to wind, has automatic ignition, adjustible heat between 8 kW-12 kW and elegant yet tough stainless steal/aluminum construction. Available through Flame Heating Deisgn.

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