Most new (and old) houses have a deck off the side or rear of the house. In designing a new house, an owner usually just installs a Decks in Nashville of 'X' amount of space and really doesn't think much about how the deck is going to be used. As an Architect, the deck design is just as important as the rest of the house design. In real terms, a Decks in Nashville can be used as additional floor space and storage, at a significantly lower cost than the rest of the house. The deck should be used as an extension of the living space, and the spaces below the deck used as storage. Here are some tips to make your Decks in Nashville work more for you.

1. Use a large glass doors to open to the Deck Contractor nashville TN . You can use sliding glass doors or swing doors. Glass doors let you see the deck when they area closed. Have the opening at least 4 feet wide (minimum) or wider. On my house I have a 12' siding glass door, which opens in the middle for a 6 foot wide opening. It allows free flow of people between the Great Room and the Decks in Nashville and gives a sense of Great Room and Deck being the same room.

2. Don't skimp on the size of your deck--make it even larger than your Great Room or Living Room. Think of the Decks in Nashville as an additional Living Room, with couches, chairs, dining tables, TV's, stereos. In other words, Think of it as living space to be used in the milder temperatures of the year. My Great Room is 22'x34'. The deck is 20'x38', with 20'x28' covered with a roof.

3. Don't have a step between the Decks in Nashville and the house 1st floor. Instead have the deck flush with the house. This gives sense that the deck is an extension of the home.

4. Put a roof over the Decks in Nashville . The roof can be a canopy, metal roof, or an extension of the house roof (wood framing, asphalt shingles). Having a roof over the deck area makes it more "livable" when the sun is out. It also gives a "human" scale to deck. A roof overhead makes it feel psychologically more comfortable, putting a ceiling above where you sit on the deck, rather than open sky. A roof also makes the Decks in Nashville usable when it rains.

5. Use drywall and carpet instead of siding and decking.. If you put a roof over the deck, install moisture resistant drywall or "flat" siding on the home exterior wall and indoor/outdoor carpet on pressure treated plywood rather than expensive floor decking. It is less expensive, and gives the Decks in Nashville the look of being inside the house rather being outside.