A Backyard Built for the Way They Live, Millcroft
The backyard was where this family lived. Morning coffee, family dinners, weekends with the kids home from university, parties that ran late into the summer. The trouble was, the deck out back was rotting, and every time the weather turned, the day moved indoors. They were tired of watching summer afternoons get cut short by a forecast.
The deck had no roof and the boards were past saving. It sat right next to the pool and the hot tub, the centre of the yard, and it looked the part of a place that was overdue.
A family that spends their best hours outside deserves a space that lets them stay out there.
They had hired us the year before to renovate their bathrooms, so when it came time to take on the porch, they called us back. No second quotes, no shopping around. They already knew how we worked.
We started with architectural design and city permitting, full 3D renderings so they could see the structure before it was built, and product selections walked through with them. From there, the build moved fast. Call before you dig, helical pile foundation set in a single day with no concrete and no mess in the yard, post and beam framing, a full gable roof with a decorative gable end and shingles tied in to match the house, and wrap around steps coming off the porch toward the pool. Four weeks from start to final city inspection. We handed it off complete.
If they had kept putting it off, the deck would have kept falling apart and another summer would have slipped by, hosting indoors while the yard sat unused.
Here is what they have now. A covered porch looking out over the golf course, with room for a full seating area, a dining table, and a clear sight line to the pool and hot tub. Morning coffee under the gable. Dinners that stretch into the evening regardless of what the sky is doing. Parties that no longer get rained out. A space they are proud to show off, that fits the way this family actually lives.
Their words when we finished, paraphrased: it was exactly what they wanted, and they could not wait for summer to enjoy it. We had finished as the first snow was falling.
They went from a backyard in disrepair to a complete outdoor oasis, ready for every season ahead.
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