Comment on this story Comment Designers frequently talk about wanting to “bring the outdoors in” through design. Whether it’s accomplished by adding daylight and greenery to energize a room or choosing floral prints for the walls or upholstery, the goal is to blur the lines between inside and out. But these more obvious decorating choices perhaps miss a critical component: the feeling of being in the garden. Leah O’Connell, a designer in the San Francisco Bay area, recently tried to create this feeling in her cousin’s family home in Richmond. “Everything was done with the light and the garden in mind,” O’Connell says. And although her choices were client-specific, they…