The growing popularity of integrated outdoor living areas — better known as California rooms — in homes in parts of the country with less-perfect weather than California is an intriguing story

So, when New Home Source was looking for an expert to discuss what’s behind this trend, we knew Taylor Johnson client Mary Cook Associates, an award-winning, full-service commercial interior design firm, would have the answer. New Home Source agreed and interviewed founder and principal Mary Cook for the story. Read the complete article here.

Designed by Mary Cook Associates, this California room is located off the central living space of a model home at Reserve at Holmdel, a Toll Brothers community in Holmdel, N.J.