Designing an extended outdoor space in synchronization with the house offers beauty, comfort, and enjoyment. It blends the warmth and comfort of the home with the openness and serenity of outside nature. Unique in their ways, both patios and decks offer comfort and become ideal for hosting events and leisure activities.
Steps for Designing Your Dream Patio or Decks
The patio is an external space adjoining the house or at an independent location, usually located in the backyard. The deck is an elevated structure standing at a height joined with the home or freestanding. It is mainly built outside the living room, kitchen, or hall.
Step 1: Determine the Purpose of Building Your Patio or Deck
The first step taken towards building a dream patio or deck is to determine what your purpose is for building them. Whether you want a patio for leisure activities like spending an evening with your family, reading books alone on starry nights, or sipping your morning coffee while enjoying nature, Or do you want to use your dream patio to host events like a barbeque with friends or arrange family dinners?
Similarly, Decide whether you need a deck for enjoying the outside view from a height, for everyday dining, or for summer barbecues and grills. Further, choose whether the deck would work as your private terrace or a place to host intimate gatherings. Once you decide on the purpose, it is suggested to get work done by a professional contractor.
Step 2: Decide The Location And Area Of Your Dream Patio or Deck
Once the purpose is determined, find the ideal place to build your dream patio. It can be outside your living room, in your backyard, near the pool, or in an open space in between the garden.
Allot spaces that justify the patio. The shape of the patio can be rectangles or squares, or else it can be of various shapes and corners based on the space allocated.
A deck can be single or multi-level. Further, it can be a pool deck, located above-ground, above-the-pool, or in-ground. Further, there are garden decks and roof decks. All these unique decks come in different sizes and shapes. Choose the best patio or deck option for your desired purpose.
Step 3: Choose the Paving Materials for the Patios or Decks
The patios come to life with paving materials. Paving is the way of arranging the pavers in specific patterns to form patios, pool decks, etc. Ideally, the patio should be made of qualitative flooring materials to be stable, heat-resistant, slip-resistant, and comfortable enough to walk barefoot. Besides, the patio should give the impression of an extension of the home. Here patio pavers, i.e., bricks, concrete, and natural stones like fieldstone, limestone, granite, and flagstone, pose as a perfect match.
Coming in different shapes, sizes, and laying patterns, concrete pavers are ideal for offering a contemporary aesthetic look to the patios, while bricks offer a distinctive traditional look. Natural stones are preferred for their strength and weather-tolerance abilities. They require low maintenance and provide elegance.
The decks are usually made of wood materials like aluminum and vinyl, yet natural stones like porcelain pavers, travertine pavers, and hempcrete pavers are ideal for building pool decks.
Step 4: Furnish the Patios and Decks
Once the paving of patios and decks is decided, one needs to choose the right furniture, cushions, lighting, and shadings to complete crafting the patios and decks.
Patios and decks are the perfect outdoor gateways to be enjoyed from the comfort of your home with family and friends. It is up to you to pave your dream one based on purpose, space, and paving materials.