Patio, Sunroom, or Deck Rethinking Modern Outdoor Solutions

If you’re thinking custom, start by rethinking what a year-round, modern, inviting outdoor space can offer. With all that’s trending in sustainable hardscapes, native plant gardens, and outdoor furniture engineered from materials to withstand the elements, Schumacher’s design experts are ready to help you discover and realize your vision for creating an outdoor solution that’s right for your custom home.

Patio, Sunroom, or deck? Schumacher designs can integrate any of these type of outdoor solutions as part of your custom home’s floor plan.

Each have different benefits and unique attributes that lend themselves to different home designs, lot sizes, and land grading. And unlike some other custom builders, because we’re America’s largest custom homebuilder, we build for customers all over. So, we’re well experienced in how weather and climate should inform your home’s design and construction – inside and out.

Patios and Porches

Don’t be afraid to think outside the traditional tiled patio. Patios and porches can be covered or uncovered, and act as a blank canvas to a wellspring of creative ways to invite the comfort and style of the best parts of your home’s interior into the outdoors. Covered areas offer more flexibility for almost-year-round, rain-or-shine enjoyment. Concrete floors or other hardscape surfaces (think brick or stone slabs) allow you to upgrade your outdoor space with a built-in fireplace and grill. 

Depending on lot size, an extended patio can accommodate an enhanced outdoor experience through multiple and even separate outdoor areas. Go beyond grilling with a full outdoor kitchen. Do more entertaining with one part of your outdoor patio dedicated to dining and a separate area for a cluster of lounge or Adirondack chairs.

Depending on lot size, an extended patio can accommodate an enhanced outdoor experience through multiple and even separate outdoor areas. Go beyond grilling with a full outdoor kitchen. Do more entertaining with one part of your outdoor patio dedicated to dining and a separate area for a cluster of lounge or Adirondack chairs.

Sunrooms

Schumacher also specializes in sunrooms. You may know this room, with its copious amount of natural light attributed to its many windows and uninterrupted views, by other names like garden room, patio room, Florida room, three seasons room, sun parlor, solarium, garden conservatory or winter garden. While you may not require the formality of a garden conservatory, by any other name, who says a sunroom can’t be within reach of your custom home?

Several of Schumacher’s most popular, award-winning floor plans feature the attainable elegance of a sunroom. These rooms offer the feeling of an outdoor space but within the climate-controlled comfort of your home’s interior. Despite being sometimes referred to as both a Florida room and a winter garden, a sunroom offers a temporary escape or a quiet retreat inside while nature’s seasonal procession is on full display, outside.

Decks

Comparatively speaking, decks offer several distinctive benefits to any outdoor solution. Specifically, a stand-alone deck can be a space-conscious way to upgrade smaller backyard lots or lots with extreme grades. A series of decks can also help add a connecting layer to a larger patio, by adjoining or helping set off specific areas for grilling, dining, or entertaining.

Decks may require more budget upfront towards labor and materials for construction and installation, but the investment typically returns a higher yield – both in resale value and in stunning views – especially an elevated deck.

Bring Your Unique Style, Outside

Including the concept of an outdoor space in your custom home design from the get-go of the process allows our design team to extend all the sensibilities of your interior into an outdoor solution that will make time spent in the backyard as memorable as time spent inside. Our New Home Consultants will work with you, step-by-step, to find high-quality, exterior-rated materials that will complement and match the very same materials found on your interior – from colors and textures to finishes, patterns, and surfaces.

Whether it’s a patio for entertaining guests, a sunroom that brings relaxation and calm, or a deck with an amazing view, it will be custom to you. Let Schumacher show you how.