outdoor living in medina, oh

A Medina Deck Builder Who Designs Around Your Yard

The lots in Medina vary more than people expect. Some are flat and open. Others slope toward the back or sit at an elevation that changes how a deck relates to the house. As your Medina deck builder, we design around the specific conditions of your property, whether flat and wide or atop a steep slope. We’ll handle all the considerations that come along with regrading, keeping sight lines open, and thinking about how your family will move between the house and the yard.

We work with composite, PVC, and wood decking, so you’ll have many options to choose from. We can walk you through the strengths of each so you can make a choice you feel good about. But no matter the material, one thing never changes: each deck will be built for Ohio’s freeze-thaw cycles, and that means footings will be deeply buried into the soil (well below the frost line).

Your Medina Porch Builder 

A porch adds a room to your home that lives between inside and out. We design open-air porches, covered porches, and three-season rooms based on how you plan to use the space and how much of the year you want to use it.

Some homeowners want a covered porch that keeps the rain off while they read in the evening. Others want a three-season room that stays comfortable from the first warm week of spring through the last mild days of fall. We listen first and design around what you tell us. 

Screened Porches for Medina Homeowners 

A screened porch gives you the fresh air and the evening sounds without the insects that come with them. We build our screened porches with SCREENEZE screening systems, which provide clean sightlines and a durable, finished appearance that holds up well over time. 

If you want the flexibility to close the space in the cooler months, we can integrate track windows. These open wide for the summer breeze and seal tightly when the weather turns, easily extending porch season by a month or two on either end.

Your Medina, OH Patio Builder 

A patio creates a ground-level surface that works for everything from a fire pit and a few chairs to a full outdoor dining area. We work with Unilock pavers, which come in a wide range of colors, textures, and patterns that complement your home's exterior. 

The work that matters most on a patio happens underground. Compaction, grading, and drainage all need to be right before the first paver goes down, or the surface will shift and pool within a few years. It’s here that Patrick’s background in engineering is especially helpful, because it helps make sure the base is prepared in a way that will make your patio perform for the long haul.

We can also incorporate outdoor kitchens into your patio layout if you are looking to cook and entertain outdoors.

Medina Pergola Builder 

A pergola adds beautiful overhead structure to a deck or patio, providing filtered shade and a comforting sense of enclosure without putting up walls. When designing pergolas, we can custom-match the roofline and architectural style of your home. This is the best way to make sure your new addition looks and feels like a deliberate, original part of the property.

Combination Outdoor Living Spaces in Medina, OH

Some of the most satisfying projects we build are combination spaces where multiple structures flow together as one. You can do this in more ways than you can count, too. You could have, for example, a custom deck that steps down gracefully onto a paver patio. Or you could have a screened porch that opens up to an uncovered dining area and a pergola-shaded fire pit.

The trick to making combination spaces work is design. If you add a deck, then a patio, then a fire pit, and so on, the risk is that the pieces will feel like separate spaces. But when they’re all designed together, they give you different places to enjoy based on the weather, time of day, or size of your gathering.

Medina Sunroom Builder 

If you want a fully enclosed, climate-controlled space that still feels connected to the outdoors, we design and build custom sunrooms as well. A sunroom floods your home with natural light and panoramic views while maintaining the comfort of an interior living room. We can construct these as standalone additions or integrate them into a larger combination project. 

Get Started on Your Medina Outdoor Living Project

Have an outdoor living project in mind for your Medina home? Call Patrick Sluss, our local Archadeck franchisee and master design consultant, for a no-obligation, complimentary design consultation.

You can connect with Patrick and his team of deck experts by calling 330-537-6412, or by clicking this link right here.