The master bedroom has an adjoining sunroom facing the backyard.
"We liked that hybrid quality of the house facing the backyard and wanted to keep it, but we had to think of a way to glue it all together," Mr. Garofalo said.
Henry Rodriguez, 35, a glass repair and installation worker in Brooklyn, said he had recently suggested that a client, living only a few blocks from Mr. DiServio, remove the guards facing her backyard, since no one could gain access to the area anyway.
One afternoon, she wrote, she was nursing her then-infant son on a couch facing the backyard.
And Amer should know, his house, the house where we're now sitting, backs directly onto one of them, where an armed IDF guard stands facing his backyard 24 hours a day.
And Amer should know, his house, the house in which we now sit, backs directly onto one of them, where an armed IDF guard stands facing his backyard 24 hours a day.
We hypothesized that the negative confounding might be explained partly by the use of protections against noise among participants more exposed to noise (e.g., closing windows at night, sleeping in a room facing the backyard).
The shady west-facing backyard is fenced in cedar and granted privacy and perma-green vistas by a bamboo variant that does not shed its leaves in winter.
PERSONAL SPACES: Two bedrooms, on the lower level, have private bathrooms and face the backyard.
I now find myself studying the woods far less often, despite the fact that my office faces the backyard.
She arranged for the house to be lifted from its foundation onto a flatbed truck, then returned to where it had been, but backward, so the front door faced the backyard, and the back door opened onto the street.
