The pandemic may have made life screwy, but it also opened up design changes at home that, four years later, are still being heavily leaned into, especially outdoors.  

“There’s no question we aggressively grew our business post 2019 as a result of COVID,” says Daniel Albo, president of Outeriors, specialists in outdoor kitchens and cabinetry. “When restaurants were closed, people couldn’t entertain indoors, making the outdoor landscape and outdoor kitchens a new-found entertaining space.”