Lakeview Living

Custom Deck With Outdoor Living And Pool Area In Canton, GA

Whoever built this house did everything right until they reached the back of it, and the back of it is the side facing Lake Sovereign.

Before

Everything but the Back Was Right

Nobody buys on Lake Sovereign for the kitchen. Every finish inside this house had been chosen properly, money spent in the right places, the whole thing put together with care.

Then you walked out the back and found a pressure treated deck with heavy wood railing and a small screened box tucked in the corner. The same deck sitting behind ten thousand other houses that don’t have a lake in front of them. The railing was the worst part, solid balusters every few inches straight across the one elevation on the entire property with something worth looking at.

After

Everything Here Gets Out of the Way

Cable railing was the first decision and the easiest one to make. Fortress Fe26 posts with vertical cable infill meets code and all but disappears once you’re sitting down, so from a chair on this deck you’re looking at water instead of at pickets.

The screens work on the same principle. They come out. Through spring and fall the porch sits open on every side with nothing at all between the room and the lake, and when the bugs arrive in June they go back in for the summer.

Every choice on this deck was about seeing more of the lake and less of the deck.

The Two Areas

The Porch

Five hundred and sixteen square feet under a gable, cedar rafters left open overhead, gas fireplace at one end. Big enough to eat in, sit in and lose an evening in without anyone feeling crowded.

The Deck

Two hundred and ninety-three square feet of Trex Transcend running off the porch, ringed in cable railing, with a proper landing on the stair rather than one long flight dropping to the lawn.

The Details

The Room Underneath

A watertight drainage system covers all 809 square feet below the deck, so rain lands on the boards and leaves through gutters. The ground floor stays dry and usable in weather that would empty the deck above it.

The Beadboard Ceiling

Most under-deck space looks like the underside of a deck. Finished in beadboard, this one reads as a ceiling, which is what turns the area below from leftover height into a room people choose to sit in.

The Wide Span Beams

Engineered beams carry the deck across longer distances than standard framing manages. Fewer posts underneath means the lower level stays open and the view from down there survives too.

What's In It, Level by Level

Component	Product
Screened porch	Gable roof, 516 sq. ft.
Ceiling	Exposed cedar rafters
Screens	Removable system
Fireplace	Gas non-vented
Decking	Trex Transcend, 293 sq. ft.
Railing	Fortress Fe26, vertical cable
Framing	Engineered wide span beams
Stair	With landing
Under deck	Watertight drainage, 809 sq. ft.
Under deck ceiling	Premium beadboard finish

About $130,000 to build in the north metro today.

We Already Know This Lake

Several houses around Lake Sovereign have our work on the back of them by now. That means we know how these lots fall, where the good views actually are, and what it takes to build on a slope like yours. Come see us in Woodstock and tell us which one is yours.

or visit us at Woodstock Design Center 135 Village Center W, Suite 100