22 Internal Courtyards to Covet

In today’s architectural world, every square centimetre of space counts, particularly in small inner-city homes. But it’s not only floor area and storage space that’s worth counting, a pocket of greenery or some alfresco breathing space incorporated into your home’s floor plan counts for a lot, too. Here are 22 homes that resisted the urge to fill every centimetre with internal floor space, and used an internal courtyard to great – and highly therapeutic – effect.

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