--- product_id: 86755985 title: "The Art of Outdoor Living: Gardens for Entertaining Family and Friends" price: "VT18205" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/86755985-the-art-of-outdoor-living-gardens-for-entertaining-family-friends store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # The Art of Outdoor Living: Gardens for Entertaining Family and Friends **Price:** VT18205 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Art of Outdoor Living: Gardens for Entertaining Family and Friends - **How much does it cost?** VT18205 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/86755985-the-art-of-outdoor-living-gardens-for-entertaining-family-friends) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description LIVE WELL IN YOUR GARDEN: Turn your backyard into a stylish, livable oasis with garden design and outdoor entertaining advice from a landscape designer to the stars. This garden coffee table book showcases the very best of indoor/outdoor living through tours of 12 beautiful properties! Pools made private by lush plantings, bedrooms open to the back yard, bar seating by the outdoor oven . . . California native and exterior architect Scott Shrader is known for creating covetable outdoor rooms for clients including Ellen DeGeneres and Patrick Dempsey. In this garden coffee table book, he shares the grounds of 12 beautiful properties for the first time—all designed to be lived in and enjoyed as extensions of the homes they surround. Shrader shows us how to connect the landscape outside with interior décor, resulting in an exterior environment that flows naturally, stylishly, and serenely from this core. He also inspires us to think of the way these outdoor spaces will be used, and plan ahead for ways to keep our family and guests fed, warm, and entertained. Folded in between the featured gardens—which range in style from Hollywood Regency to Modern Moroccan—are meditative essays on Sustainability, Lifestyle, and Pathways, as Shrader reflects on how gardens change in small and big ways, transforming with the light, weather, cycle of seasons, and passage of years. Perfect for anyone interested in interior and landscape design, The Art of Outdoor Living is an indispensable guide to creating chic gardens for entertaining, playing, and relaxing. Review: Superb, Exceptional Book with Masterly Creation of Gardens - An outstanding book, I absolutely adore everything about it. So many ideas from Scott Shrader great sense of space color and layers. Makes one wish to have more and more garden space. You will be pleased with your purchase. It is not a coffee table book but a thing of beauty, which Scott brought to life. Very informative and quite thoroughly descriptive. Endowed with a feel for the green world and a master’s eye for balance. I purchased many copies as gifts. This entire book is absolutely beautiful from beginning to end. The photographs are so incredibly dreamy. Absolute perfection and balance of old historical elements in a 21st Century Style of life. A MUST for any true lover of gardens and outdoor living. When looking for inspiration, I will reference this treasure for years to come. Thank you Scott for the talent and for sharing your gift with the world. I can't wait for future books Review: Great USED pristine book! - Bought it used! It came packaged PERFECTLY! they really REALLY took care of the book unlike desertcart who just throws it in there bare! The book seller wrapped and wrapped it again and put extra bubble wrap! 10 gold stars! I pride myself in pristine books and this made the cut! The book it self looks so exactly as advertised. Pages clean spine tight, I could tell it had been open "cracked" flipped through "used" but was well taken care of and I appreciate that! Now I will care for it best I can. The inside images are STUNNING definitely fit for display, best images are show up above but there's definitely more to admire! Will be keeping for my life time ❤️ ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #10,533 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1 in Garden Furnishings (Books) #2 in Landscape #9 in Garden Design (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 401 Reviews | ## Images ![The Art of Outdoor Living: Gardens for Entertaining Family and Friends - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/A1TMtdBRgfL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Superb, Exceptional Book with Masterly Creation of Gardens *by P***E on May 1, 2019* An outstanding book, I absolutely adore everything about it. So many ideas from Scott Shrader great sense of space color and layers. Makes one wish to have more and more garden space. You will be pleased with your purchase. It is not a coffee table book but a thing of beauty, which Scott brought to life. Very informative and quite thoroughly descriptive. Endowed with a feel for the green world and a master’s eye for balance. I purchased many copies as gifts. This entire book is absolutely beautiful from beginning to end. The photographs are so incredibly dreamy. Absolute perfection and balance of old historical elements in a 21st Century Style of life. A MUST for any true lover of gardens and outdoor living. When looking for inspiration, I will reference this treasure for years to come. Thank you Scott for the talent and for sharing your gift with the world. I can't wait for future books ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great USED pristine book! *by D***H on July 12, 2025* Bought it used! It came packaged PERFECTLY! they really REALLY took care of the book unlike Amazon who just throws it in there bare! The book seller wrapped and wrapped it again and put extra bubble wrap! 10 gold stars! I pride myself in pristine books and this made the cut! The book it self looks so exactly as advertised. Pages clean spine tight, I could tell it had been open "cracked" flipped through "used" but was well taken care of and I appreciate that! Now I will care for it best I can. The inside images are STUNNING definitely fit for display, best images are show up above but there's definitely more to admire! Will be keeping for my life time ❤️ ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Garden book perfection! *by J***. on January 26, 2020* I checked this book out of the library 3 times, and then just gave in and bought it - I needed it! A beautiful book all around. I love the style of garden/landscape in this book: natural, lush, with structure and texture. Really beautiful plant/flower botanical-style close up photos at the beginning of each new garden, a one-page description of each project and photo captions which do mention some of the plants used. It's Southern California garden eye candy, and that climate and its plants work well in my Austin, TX area, so that's extra enjoyment I got from the book. It's in no way a how-to guide, but the mention of certain plants/shrubs/trees used do make it actionable or a starting point for a little more plant research. I think anyone though, in any climate would find this book inspiring. I own a good number of garden books and this one is my new favorite. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Art of Outdoor Living: Gardens for Entertaining Family and Friends - The Landscape of Home: In the Country, By the Sea, In the City - Bunny Williams: Life in the Garden --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/86755985-the-art-of-outdoor-living-gardens-for-entertaining-family-friends](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/86755985-the-art-of-outdoor-living-gardens-for-entertaining-family-friends) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-12*