You have to trek across an open courtyard to get, say, from the living room to the bathroom.

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The house itself had an open-air courtyard, intimately connected to the gardens and the sea by large rooms that could be opened in such a way that no walls interrupted the flow of people or air from the patios to the courtyard, which was filled with sun and palm trees.

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The grand central courtyard remains open on its western side.

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Their three-room bicycle garage is made of the same materials, and has floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors in the fitness room that open to the same courtyard as the floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors in the main house's dining room.

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With 4, 800 square feet of living space, the home sleeps 12 comfortably and includes a formal living room with baby grand piano, family room and kitchen that each open out onto the courtyard, as well as a library and dining room.

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The balcony doors were closed for hours the day Miss Zahau was supposedly cut down, how is that possible, there was no breeze it was an enclosed courtyard and besides the doors open inward to close the doors a breeze had to come from inside the room.

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She went to the back, where the servants lay under blankets in the courtyard, and slipped through an open door, through the filthy kitchen, which smelled of garlic and curry, and into the heavily carpeted dining room.

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Candy opened the windows to the courtyard, but when she went to the other side of the room to open the street windows for a cross breeze Marjorie stopped her.

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