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Restored 1790 Carriage House in Water Mill, NY
This restoration of a 1790 Carriage House maintained the integrity of the original home, keeping the original structure and beams. Additions in the new three story home were added along with state of...
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Screened In Porch Addition
1 commentMost screened porches are too small for one to thoroughly enjoy the space. With an adequate size the porch becomes a living room to the great outside. In season, this room is used more the the living...
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Deck with view
Custom designed TimberTech decking and railing complete with a roof and a nice view.
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UnderDeck Storage Shed
1 commentWhat better way to save space in your back yard than to build your shed under your second story deck?
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Custom Fiberon Deck
Custom Designed Deck with Fiberon Decking, TimberTech Railing complete with a privacy wall, patio and Grill Alcove.
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Brick Deck Railing
This is a deck with TimberTech Decking and a custom railing with brick masonary columns and LED lighting.
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Backyard Retreat
Here is a custom deck complete with lighting and a patio for the perfect backyard retreat.
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Custom Deck with Steel Framing
Instead of framing this deck with typical pressure treated lumber, we used Trex's Elevations steel framing. The decking is Trex Transcend in Treehouse and the railing is a custom Fortress Iron rail.
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Custom Deck
This is a TimberTech Deck with a custom Gazebo, brick columns, underdeck storage area, and it even has a planter bench on it for planting seasonal flowers.
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Porch and Deck Combo with Fireplace and Patio in Johns Creek Georgia
This project involved a porch room with a tile floor, firplace, open deck with separate grill area and walkway to driveway, staircase and a finished area and patio below the deck and porch area
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Boat House Rebuild
1 commentThis is an open-concept boat port with plenty of storage areas for water toys and life jackets, as well as shore-side fuel storage.
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A Relaxing Retreat
The clients wanted to have an entertaining deck, but they also wanted to have a private covered deck accesible from their master bedroom. They wanted it to include a large fireplace as well as a few...
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Mountain Porch Retreat
Our region has an extended outdoor season that the homeowners wanted to take full advantage of. The existing deck was not adequate for hosting large parties and had no covered space for protection...
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Glass Rail over Trex Deck
I recently built the pictured deck and rail using the Rail Simple Clearview system over a Trex Transcend Treehouse deck. The clients wanted a see-through deck rail and at first wanted a cable...
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second story addition with roof deck
THIS WAS A SECOND STORY ADDITION WITH ROOF DECK WE BUILT, THE OWNER WAS BY THE WATER BUT HAD NO OCEAN VIEWS. BY PUTTING ON THE SECOND STORY HE WAS ABLE TO GET 180 DEGREE OCEAN AND INLET...
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Super-mod deck
2 commentsTHis was a fun project, for a cabinetmaker frind of mine-- needless to say, he's particular about the details. everything is cantilevered, the deck, the stairs. And the trim board at the...
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Bond House - Exterior Deck
This is a deck that I designed last winter and supervised the construction process over this summer. It's all cedar decking and trim finished with Para Raincoat (the painters told me they loved...
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Backyard's Patio
2 commentsThis residence involves the alteration & addition to existing 1930's Californian bungalow in Sydney, Australia.
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Finishing trim around my windows and lattice work with raw posts
I let the sun color the wood a golden brown then I added Blond thompsons water seal. I also did the lattice work and the post the same color
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Pavilion
This is a celebration space we created. It was built with all cypress framing and standing seam metal roof. The deck is ipe with hidden fasteners on top of borate pressure treated pine framing...
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Timberfram Pergola
1 commentMy son, Brendan Matthews (www.traditionalbarnraisers.com) built this pergola for his cousin using timberframe joinery and raising techniques.
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moon fence
1 commentthree panel moon fence created from clear western red cedar, all joints dowelled for strength to withstand wisteria
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Deck pergola
3 commentsThis pergola provides much needed filtered shade to a southern exposure.It is made of Western red cedar and stained with Sikkens SRD. It was made in shop and assembled on site. The dimensions are...
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Victorian (Queen Ann) Style Curved Porch {Mangaris}
3 commentsHi. My name is Cliff Audet and I wanted to enter this porch that my crew and I built for my own house. The old porch was rotten beyond repair, so when we replaced it using the same details, we added...
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Curved mahogany deck
3 commentsThis is a curved mahogany deck of my own design, with custom railing incorporating both stainless steel cable and wood infill. Wood infill was chosen at the wraparound to help hide the grill and...
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Patio and screen porch
10 commentsWhen it was time to replace our deck, I seized the opportunity to bring comfort and peace to our home by designing a patio and screen porch in the style of 1920's. In the twenties, the excesses of...
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arbor
While visiting our accountant in NY city, I noticed that she had removed all the wrought iron in front of her brownstone. Since she said she was going to discard it, I asked if I could have it and...
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Just another summer job...
A few years ago I had built this deck. It took about 6 weeks to finish. The decking, stairs, planters, and benches were all out of Ipe. Having everything revolve around the center was...
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Mohogany deck III
Pickled mohogany deck w/ pergolla and 4 removable panels for bulkhead access. Panel frames are cedar to reduce overall weight . lead flashing on cedar pergolla. Auborndale, Ma.
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