Elegant Upgrade

Deck Repair & Upgrade In Alpharetta, GA

We took a plain builder-grade deck, reworked the layout around the clients' own ideas, and came out the other side with roughly double the usable space and a grilling area nobody has to look at from the table.

Before

The Before

The old deck wasn’t damaged, it was just the deck a builder puts on a house to check a box. Plain wood, everything on one level, a straight run of stairs, and no real thought given to where anyone would actually sit. The clients came in with some ideas of their own about what they wanted next, and we used those as the starting point rather than the finish line.

After

The Layout

Why the Stairs Moved

Doubling the space didn’t come from building bigger but from rethinking where things went. Moving the stairs opened up a better view off the deck, and it also fixed something nobody had put into words yet: the old layout put the grill dead center in everyone’s sightline.

As the clients put it, no one really wants to look at their grill while they’re trying to relax outside. Now it sits off to the side in its own area, close enough to be convenient and out of the way of everything else.

The new stairs land on an enlarged dual-access landing, so there’s more than one way down and no bottleneck at the bottom when people are moving between the deck and the yard.

No one wants to look at their grill while they’re trying to relax. So we gave it somewhere else to be.

The Two Spaces

The Main Deck

305 square feet of Trex Transcend with Trex Signature aluminum railing, built around the new stair location instead of the old one.

The Grilling Area

Set off to the side, out of the main sightline, solving the one thing about the old layout nobody had thought to ask for.

The Details

Cedar Meets Aluminum

The privacy wall runs about fifteen linear feet, mixing real cedar panels with aluminum framing for texture a straight composite run wouldn’t have.

Dry Underneath

A premium watertight drainage system covers the full 305 square feet, keeping the space below usable no matter what the weather’s doing above it.

Finished, Not Framed

The underdeck ceiling is beadboard, so what’s underneath reads as a finished room instead of exposed joists.

Everything That Went Into This One

Component	Product
Decking	Trex Transcend composite, 305 sq. ft.
Railing	Trex Signature aluminum
Stairs	Enlarged dual access landing
Underdeck	Watertight drainage system with beadboard finish, 305 sq. ft.
Privacy wall	Cedar and aluminum combination, approximately 15 linear feet

Built in 2020 for $56,500, this one would run closer to $71,000 today.

Builder Grade Isn't a Life Sentence

Most decks like this one weren’t built wrong, they were just built to the minimum, and there’s usually more room in the layout than the original design ever used. If your deck works fine but doesn’t feel like it fits anymore, tell us what’s bothering you about it and we’ll find where the extra space is hiding.

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