Form Meets Function

High-Level Custom Deck With Porch & Landscaping In Roswell, GA

The old deck sat on posts over bare dirt, and rebuilding it properly gave this family two outdoor rooms where they'd only ever had one.

Before

The Space Underneath Was Just Dirt

The deck itself was unremarkable. Gray painted wood up on posts, a stair down one side, perfectly serviceable in the sense that you could stand on it.

What bothered them was everything below. A raised deck at that height sits over a whole room’s worth of space, and theirs held mulch, a few shrubs and the bottom of the staircase. They walked through it every time they went down to the yard, and in fifteen years nobody had thought to make it anything.

After

One Beam Instead of a Row of Posts

None of the lower level works if you can’t see across it. Standard framing on a deck this size wants support columns straight down the middle, and the moment those go in you’ve got a covered area chopped into corridors.

So we ran a single engineered beam across the span. Longer distances between supports, far fewer columns, and the room underneath opens up end to end. That one structural call is what made the space below worth finishing at all, and it happened before anyone chose a paver or a light fixture.

The deck was five hundred square feet, but so was the dirt underneath it.

The Two Areas

The Deck Above

Five hundred square feet of Trex Lineage with Trex Signature aluminum railing around it, open to the trees. This is the one they had before, done properly.

The Room Below

The same five hundred square feet again, kept dry by a watertight drainage system so rain lands on the boards above and leaves through gutters. Beadboard ceiling, paver floor, seating and a television. This is the one they gained.

The Details

The Privacy Screens

Two hideaway aluminum screens pull across when the neighbors are out and disappear entirely when they aren’t. Privacy you can switch off is worth more than a fence.

The Stone Wall

The TV wall carries on around the stairs and the landing, so the thing holding the television also shields the seating from the side. One wall, two jobs, and it hides the deck framing while it’s at it.

The Columns

Each support column is wrapped and lit from within. At dusk they read as lanterns marking out the lower room, which is why most of the photographs from this project were taken after sunset.

The Whole Build

Component	Product
Decking	Trex Lineage, 500 sq. ft.
Railing	Trex Signature aluminum
Framing	Engineered wide span beam
Drainage	Premium watertight system, 500 sq. ft.
Under deck ceiling	Premium beadboard finish
Feature wall	Custom stone TV wall and deck skirting
Privacy	Two hideaway aluminum screens
Landscaping	By our referral partner, separate contract

About $130,000 to build in the north metro today, covering the deck and everything under it. The landscaping and hardscaping in these photographs was a separate contract with our trade partner, coordinated to finish alongside ours.

Most of Our Work Comes From People Who Saw It Somewhere

This family was sent to us by another client whose backyard they’d been standing in. That’s how most of these projects start. If you’ve been at a friend’s house and found yourself thinking about your own, that instinct is usually right. Come see us in Woodstock and tell us what you’ve got.

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