March 23, 2017 Porch Design, Structures
Take a look at the beautiful home pictured here. Inset beautifully between the 2 gables is a new screened porch we just finished in the Nashville area. Can you believe the screened porch is a new room and has just been added? It looks like it has been there all along. That’s by design. At […]
December 26, 2014 Structures
If you’ve been reading our blog, we’ve been writing about outdoor building materials quite a bit. This is an important consideration especially when these materials are exposed to direct sun and rain. As we wrote in our blog post about wood, sun and water can be wood’s biggest enemies. There are so many considerations when […]
May 24, 2013 Porch Design, Porches, Structures
When we first met these homeowners in the Green Hills area of Nashville, their outdoor living area sat on a hill side. They had an existing pool that creatively worked within the hillside. They wanted a porch to sit above the pool’s elevation so they could overlook the pool from the comfort of their spacious […]
May 24, 2013 Porch Features, Porches, Structures
This featured porch is a great example of why The Porch Company is so much more than a company that builds porches. When these Belle Meade homeowners originally came to us, they had a small, screened porch and a large, raised terrace. They wanted to extend their screened porch and add a shade feature over […]
May 24, 2013 Porch Design, Porch Features, Porches, Structures
There are so many architectural and design factors to consider when designing and building a porch ceiling. These include the shape of the roof, the roof pitch, the ceiling design, the rafter aesthetics, and the ceiling beams. We’ve put together a baker’s dozen photos showing different beams on porch ceilings that we’ve built here at […]