“The shift to extending our indoor world to our outdoor spaces accelerated in 2020, and this trend will only get bigger in 2021,” Riverbend Home chief home officer and general manager Mark Feldman said in the report. “Upgrades to outdoor living are at the top of most homeowners’ to-do lists, with patios serving as multi-purpose spaces for safe gatherings, work from home moving outside for some fresh air and fresh thinking, summer vacations giving way to staycations, and gardening becoming a natural extension to our newly minted pandemic cooking skills.”