Category: Patios, Decks & Railings

The Sky’s the Limit: Rooftop Living Ideas

You love your house, your garden, and your neighbourhood. But isn’t it time to see it all from a different perspective?

Summer in Oregon is here and the warm weather is made for entertaining and relaxing outdoors, but why not consider building a terrace for your barbecues and evening get-togethers that will really stand out: a rooftop deck.

Rooftop living spaces, no matter their design, offer great advantages. More space, more value for your home, and great views: there’s no feeling quite like standing on top of the world, on your own roof.

A rooftop terrace can add considerable curb appeal to your home, and it’s the perfect way to add a bit more square footage to your home, especially if space is tight. Adding a rooftop deck with elegant furniture, discreet screening, and potted plants maximizes your outdoor space and can offer a secluded space hidden away from prying eyes.

Rooftop decks are perfect for entertaining, for everything from Friday night cocktails to full-on garden parties with a twist. But they can also be a great way to create a rooftop garden without having to create a green roof entirely. They can be made to look as beautiful and useful as your backyard.

You can transform a flat roof into a rooftop deck or add a terrace extension to your existing roof structure.

Rooftop decks can be outdoor lounge areas, dining areas , or gardens. With rooftop lounges, the key to getting the look right is making the area comfortable, private, and relaxing. Rooftop dining areas need to be easily accessible from the kitchen if possible, with enough space to host family and friends for meals. Rooftop gardens, or even living green roofs, need to be carefully thought out to protect your roof from water leaks and wear-and-tear.

With smaller spaces, you can simply create a rooftop bar or small garden with simple furniture, a lovely little oasis that you’ll never want to leave.

When you’re ready, contact us at Keith Green Construction to make these dreams a reality.

Linking your Interior and Exterior: Bringing the Outdoors In

At this time of year, when the sun is out, it’s almost unbearable to not spend time outdoors. Creating an extension that’s linked to your house is the ideal way to enjoy the garden while keeping all your creature comforts.

Step Into the Outdoors

An open extension to your house, like a terrace or patio, can enhance your sense of wellbeing, offering you a relaxing way to spend time outside while still being connected to what’s going on inside: the perfect way to mix the personality of the garden with the charm of the home.

But to truly open up your space and make your house feel larger, you need to link the indoors and the outdoors and create a place where shapes, textures, colors, and materials all seamlessly blend together. And it’s easier than you think!

Photo by Horizon – Residential & Commercial Builders – Discover deck design inspiration

Open Yourself Up to the Outdoors

Linking your exterior and interior with a consistent look will help you make the most of your garden, but it will also expand your space, so you can enjoy it and entertain all through the summer.

You can do it even if you have a small garden. It can be as simple as opening up a wall or expanding the windows, letting the light in, and removing any barriers that block the line of sight to the garden. With a bigger budget, you can create an outdoor patio – but place it in the areas where you entertain, like the kitchen or dining room, so you can easily move from inside to outside.

Consider installing French doors or floor-to-ceiling glass to make the walls disappear; this will let in far more light than a window.

With the view open, you can then extend your décor, flooring, furniture, and color schemes to create a beautiful, open-plan flow between your indoor and outdoor space.

Photo by Landmark Lofts – Discover exterior home design ideas

Protect Your Space

It’s not always sunny in, well, Portland… so for areas like ours that can have unpredictable weather in the summer, extend your roof to protect your patio and space from the rain. This way, you can still enjoy being outside or leaving your patio doors wide open without fear of getting wet. You’ll be surprised at how many rainy days can still be enjoyed from the shelter of your roofed patio.

Photo by John Kraemer & Sons – Search patio pictures

Create a Seamless Flow

Whether you’re creating a large patio outside, or simple adding a few bits of furniture to your garden, linking the interior and exterior living space is important. You can do this by matching design elements like furniture, materials, flooring, décor, and color schemes.

This will make the indoor and outdoor feel as if it’s all one large room. For example, you can extend the same flooring of the kitchen outside to the deck (if it’s wood) or patio (if it’s tiles). If you have brick on your exterior wall, why not bring it indoors and adding exposed brick as a section of the interior room to link the two?

Or you could go low-budget and simply use similar design styles and color schemes for furnishings and furniture for your outdoor area. It’ll feel like the outside space is part of your house, rather than simply an afterthought.

Photo by Kim Duffin for Sublime Architectural Interiors – Search kitchen design ideas

Creative Design and Styling

Regardless of how large your outdoor space is, you can create that seamless experience in a very cost-effective way. For example, you can open up your wall with French doors and then fill both your indoor and outdoor area with:

potted flowers
hanging baskets
window boxes
hardy herbs
textured furnishings
soft lighting

Photo by IDF Studio – More deck photos

There are lots of ways you can creatively bring the outdoors in (or the indoors out!), from opening walls with patio windows and sheltered roofing to extending the indoor flooring right through to your garden and matching furniture and simple decorative items from the house.

Inspired? Let us know what ways you’re linking your indoors and outdoors! Keith Green Construction can help advise you on how you can make your house feel bigger and make the most of your garden.

Patio Storage Ideas to Tame your Outdoor Clutter

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Our patios and decks can accumulate as much clutter as our homes. We spend so much of our time there during the warmer months, and our backyard activities – from dining and entertaining to playing and swimming – often come with a slew of extras.

If we don’t have convenient ways to neatly stow away these items between uses, they tend to accumulate.

Keeping the clutter organized and out of sight is the best way to keep stress at bay and make the most of your patio living. In this installment of our series on patio renovations, we’ll focus on clever patio storage ideas to tame your outdoor clutter and enjoy your patio living.

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Build In the Storage

Take advantage of storage opportunities from the ground up, by building drawers and trap doors right into your deck floor.

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Table Storage

Make the most of your patio tables, by opting for models with built-in storage space.

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Storage Benches

Benches are a very popular patio addition, for both the seating space they provide and the ability to store items, big and small.

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Sheds

Sheds are a go-to option for many backyards. Rather than default to generic store-bought versions, consider custom-built sheds that are as high on charm as they are in organizational power.

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Towel Storage

Rather than make a trip into the house every time someone goes for a dip, keep your towels close at hand with one of these tidy outdoor towel storage options.

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Pool Stuff

Having a pool produces natural clutter – from pool toys, to noodles, to wet towels. These all-in-one pool storage solutions are easy to make and are invaluable for keeping your ‘pool stuff’ in one place.

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Outdoor Toy Storage

Toys have a tendency to multiply – tripping you up and lending a disheveled air to your backyard space. Try some of these ingenious ideas for organizing your little ones’ playthings.

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Bikes

No space in your garage for your bikes? Keep them stowed and secured in their own garage or bike rack like the ones below.

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Fire Wood

We love outdoor fire pits, but where to store your stock of logs and kindle? Check out these elegant firewood storage solutions.

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Need a New Deck?

Contact the Portland Patios & Decks experts at Keith Green Construction Inc, and make it happen!

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22 DIY Patio Upgrades to Try this Summer

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The summer months have us wanting to spend as much time as we can outdoors. In previous posts, we’ve showed you how you can enjoy organized patio living by investing in your backyard and patio or deck.

But you don’t need a big budget to see big improvements. That’s because summertime opens up parasols, stunning flowers, the opportunity for home-grown herbs… and the chance to flex your do-it-yourself muscle.

In this post, uncover 22 DIY patio upgrades you should try this summer.

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1. Create a Gorgeous Planter to Hide your Garden Hose

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2. Make Hanging Rain Gutter Planters

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3. Make Stunning Hand Planters

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4. Make Upcycled Rustic Custom Wood Coolers

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5. Create a West Elm Style Bench

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6. Make a Terracotta Pot Table

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7. Make Your Own Citronella Candles

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8. Make a Fire Pit

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9. Make a Cinder Block Bench

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10. Make a Vertical Garden Feature

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11. Craft a Stunning Wood Bench

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12. Put Together a Backyard Chess Set

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13. Craft a Garden Tic-Tac-Toe Game

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14. Create a Backyard Jenga Game

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15. Create a Cool Hammoc

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16. Build a Stylish Storage Bench

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17. Create a Tree Bench

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18. Make an Outdoor Succulent Wall Accent

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19. Build a Sandbox Table

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20. Make a Rope Wrapped Terracotta Pot

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21. Upcycle a Chandelier

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22. Design a Flowerpot Bird Bath

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8 Patio Living Options to Make your Summer Sizzle

Summer always seems to just fly by. Most of us like to stretch it out as long as we can by soaking up every possible minute of summer weather.

Leisure time becomes synonymous with outdoor time. Warm summer days stretch into lazy summer evenings. And our gardens and patios or decks become a central place for every activity from playing and basking in the sunshine, to grilling, planting herbs, dining and curling up with a good book.

With a few key adjustments, you can have the kind of organized outdoor space that lets you feel at home, outside. In this post, discover 8 patio living options to make your summer sizzle.

Heat Up your Evenings

Fire pits conjure up childhood memories of summer camp and camping, hot dogs on a stick and toasted marshmallows.

You can bring those memories into the present and extend your summer evenings into the cooler fall with a built-in fire pit like the one in this Meditteranean-style patio.

Wayne Weeks NEW Paver Patio & Outdoor Living Space

Photo by INSTALL-IT-DIRECT – More Mediterranean patio photos

Take Cover

This summer, stay in the shade with a patio cover. Go with the traditional awning, or opt for the charm of a thatched and curved patio cover like this one.

Photo by Kim Woods – More traditional patio ideas

Extend the Fun

You can take to your patio living to a whole new level by treating it like a home extension… less a few walls.

This covered patio houses an outdoor living room, complete with fireplace and television.

Photo by Mitchell Wall Architecture & Design – Search traditional patio pictures

Create a Nook

Sharing a garden with your neighbors can be an advantage, if you create a cozy nook like this one for dining al fresco.

Photo by markdesign, llc – Search Mediterranean landscape design ideas

Contain the Mess

Craving a little green in your patio living space? Make creative usage of containers to build in some garden space without muddying up your patio floor.

Photo by Martha Angus Inc. – Search contemporary patio design ideas

Let Nature In

Cozy up your patio living by bringing nature in. Is your space small? No worries, make use of vertical space with an assortment of trees and shrubs.

Photo by Janet Paik – Look for contemporary patio pictures

Bring Art to Life

Photo by Bright Green – Discover contemporary patio design ideas

Use low-growing succulent plants to line your patio walls with living art like this one.

Wall-to-Wall Art

Photo by Bright Green – Discover contemporary patio design ideas

Go vertical with your live art and design a planted mural of succulents like this one.

DecTec™ Vinyl Deck Membrane

by DecTec™

Keith Green Construction installs the Guardian Series Vinyl Deck Membrane by DecTec™, offering tough, durable deck protection for your outdoor patios, decks & living spaces.

60-mil thick deck membrane withstands 5000 hours of UV weathering tests.
Comprised of a reinforced PVC decking membrane, providing waterproofing and UV protection.
DecTec™ systems are adhered directly onto wood or concrete, sealing the surface from weather damage.
DecTec’s™ slip-resistant component makes decks safe for children and the elderly.
Long-lasting, requiring only the simplest of cleaning for maintenance.
UV-stabilized to prevent fading, as well as anti-microbial to fight off mold and mildew.
Backed by a 10-year Warranty.

Portland Patio Railing Systems

by TimberTech®

Augment the beauty of your Portland patio or deck with a waterproof, safe and practical railing system by TimberTech®. Keith Green Construction recognizes the quality in production and longevity of TimberTech’s composite railing, proudly offering it to our Portland clients.

Eliminate the yearly chore of maintaining traditional wood railing systems.
Made from high-quality raw materials, combined with a protective, UV-inhibiting coating.
Color is maintained despite the harshest weathering.
Coating pigment reflects excess heat, helping the railing system resist fading and warping.
Safety first: TimberTech® Railing Systems resist splinting and slipping: perfect for children and the elderly.
Find the perfect rail to match your deck: Ornamental Rail, RadianceRail, Curved Rail, BuilderBoard, and BuilderRail systems available.
Backed by a Limited 25-year Warranty.

Decking Planks

by TimberTech®

Expand your outdoor living space with a lasting, beautiful decking system by TimberTech®. Realizing TimberTech’s® waterproofing qualities, Keith Green Construction proudly installs a variety of their composite patio/decking systems.

Eliminate the chore of maintaining traditional decking on a yearly basis with composite decking.
Produced from high-quality raw materials combined with the protective power of UV-inhibiting color pigments.
Composite decking keeps a consistent, beautiful color while retaining a powerful weatherproofing coating.
Color pigment reflects excess heat, allowing fade and warp resistance.
Designed with safety in mind, TimberTech deck systems resist splinting and slipping: perfect for children and the elderly.
Find your home’s perfect system: XLM, Floorizon, TwinFinish, ValuPlank, Earthwood, and DockSider available.
Backed by a Limited 25-year Warranty.