Under the warm sun, patios bloom with cold drinks and conversation, barbecues get fired up, and parties quickly spill out on to decks and into back yards.
A three-bedroom cottage overlooking the vineyard sleeps up to six people and boasts a sun trap patio, tennis court and gas barbecue.
LONG ISLAND ALBERTSON $475,00055 Grant Avenue 5-bedroom, 2-bath, 80-year-old colonial; eat-in kitchen, formal dining room, sun room, patio, deck, full unfinished basement, 2-car detached garage with loft, 75-by-100-ft.
More than $1.2 million Summit $1.403 million2000 Springfield Road Number of bedrooms: 5 Number of full bathrooms: 3 Number of half bathrooms: 2 Time on the market: 2 weeks 67-year-old colonial; French doors in living room, sun room, patio, enclosed porch, 2-car attached garage, 100-by-195-ft.
More than $1.2 million Princeton $1.4 million33 Ober Road Number of bedrooms: 4 Number of full bathrooms: 3 Number of half bathrooms: 0 Time on the market: 2.5 months 50-year-old colonial; 2-story living room with fireplace, first-floor master suite, sun room, patio, library, 1-acre lot; taxes $21,882; listed at $1.495 million.
Features: Hardwood flooring, exposed beams, antique light fixtures, breakfast bar, updated kitchen, dining room, den, guest/maid's quarters, library, living room, sun room, patio.
On the sun-drenched patio of the Marriott Hotel in Copenhagen sat the chancellor of the exchequer.
The back of the house, with a swimming pool and a sun-bathing patio, faces the rolling grassy hills of the golf course.
Elsewhere in the office, workers added cheerful red paint to the exposed beams and laid concrete slab tiles on the sun-drenched patio.
Explaining that the house has been in her family since the time of the conquest in the early 1400s, she leads me out to a sun-dappled patio draped with bougainvillea.
