Far from Ordinary

Gable Roof Screened Porch In Roswell, GA

Several contractors had already told this family their porch couldn't be built the way they wanted it, which is a large part of why we took the job.

Before

A Weathered Deck and Storage Underneath

The old deck was pressure treated and had gone gray all over, with heavy wood railing running straight across the front of a two story wall of arched windows.

Underneath it was where the kayak lived. The house behind all of that is stucco and fairly grand, and the deck read like something a different builder had bolted on during a different decade.

After

Several Contractors Had Already Passed on It

What the family wanted was a screened porch tied into the back of a stucco house that already had a complicated roof over it. The tie-in kept stopping people, because the new gable had to meet the existing roof without the geometry looking forced and without the structure landing somewhere the house couldn’t carry it.

None of that makes it impossible, it just makes it slow. We sorted the structure first, then went back over the details until the porch stopped looking like an addition.

Fiber cement stucco panel, matched to the house. It’s the reason the porch doesn’t look like an addition from the yard.

The Two Spaces

The Screened Porch

The Two-Level Deck

Three hundred and twenty-six square feet of Deckorators Voyage across two levels, railed in Trex Signature aluminum with a drink rail on top. The lower level belongs to the grill.

The Details

The Stucco Chimney

Siding on a stucco house announces itself immediately. We clad the chimney in fiber cement stucco panels so that from the yard it reads as part of the original elevation.

The Grilling Level

We stepped the lower deck down and gave it to the grill, so the cooking has somewhere to happen that isn’t the middle of wherever everybody has sat down.

Underneath It

The old deck had a kayak stored under it. The new one has finished columns and a paved area below, which turns the ground level into somewhere worth walking out to.

Everything on the Build Sheet

Component	Product
Screened porch	Gable roof, 250 sq. ft.
Ceiling	Exposed cedar rafters
Fireplace	Wood burning
Chimney exterior	Fiber cement stucco panels
Deck	Deckorators Voyage, 326 sq. ft., two levels
Railing	Trex Signature aluminum with drink rail

This one runs about $92,000 to build in the north metro today. Engineering a roof tie-in like this one is where a project spends money you can’t see anywhere in the finished photos.

If You've Been Told It Can't Be Built

Then it’s worth one more opinion, because the answer is usually that it’s harder rather than impossible. Come see us in Woodstock and bring whatever drawings or refusals you’ve already collected.

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