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Across the country, remodelers are creating unique outdoor living spaces for clients that enhance views, provide cooking and entertainment space, and more.
Outdoor Spaces Take on Many Forms
Wrap-around deck/porch: TimberTown, a lumber and building materials dealer in Austin, Texas, worked closely with Jim Odom, owner of Archadeck of Austin, which designed, replaced, enlarged and transformed an existing cedar deck that was quite old and in disrepair. The resulting 950-sq.-ft. deck includes a new covered dining space and viewing porch. The scope of work was to tear down and completely rebuild the structure to a new set of specifications. Archadeck used 6- by 6-in. steel posts to secure the deck, which is 17 ft. above a sloping site away from the main structure. This project was decked with Fiberon Horizon in the Tudor Brown cap. The horizontal tube balusters and custom-designed, double-wide, offset railing cap maximize safety and minimize view obstructions. The project includes three zones of lighting using Aurora low-voltage lights, Pyxis riser lights, Ariel pathway lights and Phoenix flush-mount perimeter lights. Archadeck also custom-built benches and tables utilizing the composite material.