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At Outdoor Living, we specialize in screened in porches and decks. Take
a look, the best ones in Middle Tennessee are built by us!
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Here is Bill and Donna's house. We built a 16x25 screened in porch,
with a wainscot instead of railing. The out side material is hardi
board.
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Coming off the screened in the porch, you step down to the stone patio and
grill area. I built a "U" shaped wall around the grill for the grill
to reside in.
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Here is a shot of the patio pavers used. |
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On the inside is a nice relaxing wood burning fireplace with a gas log
lighter. The ceiling is framed with rough sawn cedar rafters, left
exposed, and decked with 2x6 tongue and groove decking.
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The floor is decked with a composite decking and fastened with screws.
Inside the wainscot is finished with exterior grade plywood, T1-11.
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Often with the addition of a big outside room, you may need to relocate a
door or install French doors to better access your new living space.
In this photo, we have removed a single entry door and bricked up the
opening. Then we removed a double window, cut out the rest of the
bricks, and installed a new set of French Doors. |
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| Andy and Leisa's House
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This is what I call a nice sized screened in room. Over 550sq ft on floor space, two ceiling fans, six can lights, speakers and wired for a television.
room for a big table, plenty of chairs, and good times. We also added additional floor space outside of the porch for grilling food.
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| Andy's Before Picture
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Here is the before photo. You can see the skylight on the roof is right in the path of the new roof line. We removed it, insulated, and finished the inside of the house to make look like it never was there. And when we shingled the new roof, we removed all the shingles on that roof, so there wouldn't be evidence left behind. |
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Nice 20x20 screen porch, exposed cedar rafters and tongue and groove
decking, recessed Hot Tub in the floor, fireplace, and steps coming down to
a stone patio. Not seen in this picture, is the single entry door that we
removed and bricked up, and the double windows that were cut out to allow
for the new entrance through French Doors. |
Richard's Before Picture
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You can the concrete patio that we covered up and the double window that we
removed to install new French Doors. |
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Here is Bill's house, where we poured some more aggregate concrete, built a
roof over the patio, and screened it in.
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Here is Kim's house. We built an 18X18 deck with a roof on an 8/12
slope. Columns built out to 8"X8", the floor is supported by brick
columns 18"X18" and 7' tall.
There is also a lower deck for the grill to sit on.
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Kim and Kevin
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This is the shot from an angle. I have to before picture next to
show what we started with and ended with.
Very nice results!
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And here is the original deck. The new deck was going to be bigger in
size, so we removed this one and started with all new materials on the new
floor. |
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Here is Frank's house. We built his porch with wide screened in
opening, shed roof, wrapped columns, and metal handrails.
Some of these openings are over 6ft in wide and 8ft high.
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Inside Frank's Porch
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Here is the inside of the porch. It is 375sq ft and tiled with
large 20X20 tiles.
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Frank's ceiling was finished out with 1X4 bead board tongue and groove, with
recessed lights, speakers, and two ceiling fans.
And if your wondering what we were doing during the 100+ temps in August
2007, well your looking at it! At first, I said I would just hang
this ceiling myself. It should only take a day, maybe two if I'm slow.
Boy, was I wrong! That heat wave was exhaustive! We could only
work a 3-4hrs a day in it and we were done. It's funny now cause I
know we can do it in a day! |
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The sundeck is covered with IPE decking. It's commonly known as
iron wood due to it's density, strength, and anti rot/decay properties.
It also has a Class A fire rating, which is the same given to
concrete and steel. So it's very durable, straight, and easy to work
with.
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Dean contacted us with an idea to move his screen porch over and turn his
current screen porch into living quarters, heated and cooled.
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The screen used on this job, is a privacy screen cloth. It is made
with a tighter weave than the traditional screens.
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And here is my before picture! Unfortunately, my camera had some
condensation in it when I shot the picture. And yah, that's frost on
the roof.
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This is probably the grandest of them all when it comes to screen
porches. I don't have the before picture, shame on me, but anyway,
Susan already had the deck (floor, steps, and handrails), we just added a
gable roof and built up the columns to 8" by 8", screened it in, and
trimmed
it out.
It's a big screen porch, and I wanted it to look like it was always there, not
an addition or after thought. So everything had to tie in and
match/blend in.
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| Susan's House
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This screen porch uses conventional screening with the frames fastened to
the out side of the walls. If you ever need to change out your screens, you
just get a cordless drill and a ladder, remove the screen and take it to get
it rescreened.
This one is fairly close to the ground, once they get higher, it's usually
better to have screens on the inside of the porch, to make it easier to
replace them.
Also, this one is gable roof. The gable was left opened and screened.
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This is one job, that the pictures just don't show the product as well as
it really is. There is so much detail to the trim and finish work that
I couldn't capture it without doing close up shots.
For the most part, we saved as much as the original deck as we could,
replacing some of the supporting posts and all the decking. We went
with a composite decking on the floor and wrapped the 'band' of the deck
with it.
Working with composite cost more, but it really finishes out nice.
And the pictures look good, but when you see it in person, then you
really go 'WOW'!
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Frank and Linda's Ceiling
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This ceiling is framed with rough sawn cedar rafters and decked
with 2X6 tongue and groove appearance and structural grade pine. |
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This one was finished May of 2007. It's about 20ft across and 20ft
from the house, hip roof, and b-board ceiling.
I have some pictures of the porch with the screens installed, somewhere.
As soon as I find them...I'll put them up on the web.
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We also built a deck for the grill, with wide angled steps.
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Finally, I have found the pictures! Here are a
couple of shots with it screened.
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And here is the other one. |
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Barbara's Porch
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Here is a screened in porch with a hip roof,
that we built for Barbara. |
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