Home Improvement Expert Offers Insight on Expanding Your Home Using Outdoor Spaces

Properly Outfitting Your “Outdoor Room” Means You Can Enjoy It Year-Round

Posted August 3, 2009

In backyards across the country, the "patio" has blossomed into a fully-functioning outdoor living space, carefully planned, constructed and designed to be an extension of a home’s interior space and used all year round.

Focusing on the useful, "green," fossil fuel propane, home improvement expert Tom Kraeutler will offer some creative inspiration to transform your backyard into a retreat for all seasons. Tom will talk about:

- Enjoying the warmth of an outdoor fire without the hassle of gathering wood with gas-power fire pit

- Table-top patio heaters that help you enjoy the outdoors even as the weather cools

- Lanterns that can last up to 5 hours on one cylinder of propane

- Torches that create a relaxing atmosphere…no wicks, no oil, no mess

- Bug blockers for season-long protection against mosquitoes

- The essential grill with everything you need for all-weather outdoor cooking

- "Green" propane-powered yard tools

Tom is co-host the nationally syndicated home improvement radio program The Money Pit. He is also AOL’s Home Improvement Editor and earned his home improvement stripes as a professional home inspector, amassing over 20 years experience learning how houses are put together, and how they fall apart!