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7 Landscape Design Ideas for Midcentury Modern Homes

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Postwar modern mid-century homes were designed to combine outdoor and indoor living.   Owners could look out over their gardens from floor-to-ceiling windows, and be able to easily connect with their outdoor surroundings by sliding glass doors or patios that are level with the floors of the interior.   The landscaping  for the homes was clean and simple and focused on hardscapes and the joys of the outdoor lifestyle. The 1960s home builders such as Joseph Eichler and the Alexander Construction Company established the Alexander Construction Company as the first to make Modernism affordable to everyone by building post-and-beam homes that had extravagant rooflines, which were often exaggerated in Southern the state of California and Northern California.   Mid-century modern houses can be found all over the world in the country, such as in Sarasota, Florida; Austin, Texas; Durham, North Carolina; and Australia. 1. Atrium Escape Modern homes of the mid-century in California were usually de