Get Out and Stay Out

An amenity-packed kitchen and dining area lets the owners of this Santa Monica house cook and entertain entirely outdoors.

Materials: Using a similar marble for the countertops and backsplash in both the indoor and outdoor kitchens creates interplay between the two spaces. The muted gray palette of the slate-tile flooring echoes the shingle siding, and a border wall of the same stacked stone that lines the house’s foundation