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Enhance Your Home’s Comfort with Beautiful Covered Decks

Covered decks enhance your home by providing a versatile outdoor space that offers protection from the elements while extending your living area. These custom decks seamlessly blend indoor comfort with the beauty of the outdoors, making them perfect for entertaining, relaxing, or family time in any weather.

With a covered deck from C&L Ward, you can enjoy the outdoors deeper into the year, whether you play hot to a summer barbecue or relax under the stars on a fall evening.

Find the Perfect Fit: Types of Covered Decks for Your Home

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  • Attached Roof Extensions: Attached roof extensions integrate directly with your home’s existing structure, creating a unified look that offers full protection from the sun, rain, and other elements. This type of cover is ideal for homeowners who want their deck to feel like a natural extension of their home, providing a seamless indoor-outdoor transition.
  • Freestanding Pavilions and Gazebos: Freestanding pavilions and gazebos provide flexible placement options and unique architectural styles, making them stand out in your yard. These structures can be positioned independently from your home, offering an inviting space perfect for larger decks or as a focal point in your outdoor area.
  • Open-Roof Pergolas: Pergolas offer an elegant and versatile solution for covered decks. They feature an airy, open framework that allows sunlight and natural light to filter through, adding a touch of charm while providing partial shade.
  • Louvered-Roof Pergolas: These modern, louvered pergolas come with adjustable louvers that can be opened to let in light or closed to create a nearly waterproof area, offering beauty, practicality, and shade.

Elevate Your Deck: Key Design Features for Covered Decks

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C&L Ward designs each outdoor project to enhance your home’s function and visual appeal. A covered deck can be incorporated into an elevated or multi-level deck project. Here are some covered deck ideas that include popular outdoor living features:

  • Deck Lighting: Proper lighting extends the use of your deck into the evening. Options include recessed lighting, task lighting, string lights, and up-lighting to create the perfect ambiance.
  • Built-in Seating: Built-in benches or seating areas maximize space and add convenience, eliminating the need for additional furniture.
  • Comfort Features: Enhance your deck’s usability year-round with ceiling fans, heaters, and fire pits, creating a comfortable environment in any season.
  • Entertainment Systems: Transform your deck into an outdoor entertainment hub with custom bar seating, mounted TVs, and sound systems.
  • Decorative Railings and Planter Boxes: Custom railings add safety and style, and built-in planter boxes for flowers or herbs bring greenery to your deck space. Adding deck railing lights is a nice added touch.

Why Covered Decks Are a Smart Investment for Your Home

Covered decks offer numerous benefits that make them a valuable addition to any home:

  • Protection from the Elements: A covered deck provides shade on hot days and shelter from rain, ensuring you can use your outdoor space in any weather. It also protects your outdoor furniture, reducing wear and tear.
  • Extended Outdoor Living Space: A covered deck effectively extends your indoor living space, giving you more room to relax, entertain, or dine outdoors.
  • Increased Home Value: A well-designed covered deck enhances your home’s curb appeal and resale value, making it a smart investment.
  • Energy Efficiency: A covered deck helps keep a home cooler by blocking direct sunlight, reducing the use of air conditioning, and improving energy efficiency.
  • Design Versatility: Covered decks can be customized with various materials, colors, and features, allowing you to create a space that reflects your style and meets your needs.

Why Choose C&L Ward?

Choosing C&L Ward for your covered deck project means partnering with a company that values quality, craftsmanship, and customer satisfaction. With over 50 years of experience, we understand how to design and build decks that look great and stand the test of time. Our team ensures that every aspect of your deck is tailored to your needs, from the initial consultation to the final installation. We offer flexible financing options, making it easier for you to invest in your home.

Contact C&L Ward Today

If you’d like to learn more about the curved deck projects we offer, contact C&L Ward today for a free quote or stop by one of our design centers for more information. We will happily answer your questions and discuss your decking plans with you.

Covered Decks FAQs

How can I maximize my deck space for outdoor dining and relaxation?

Start with a thoughtful deck design, comfortable seating, and a designated outdoor dining area. A retractable awning can provide flexible shade, making your backyard deck more versatile.

What are the benefits of adding an overhead structure to my deck?

An overhead structure, like a pergola or retractable awning, adds a touch of elegance while protecting your deck flooring (we like Fiberon, a composite decking product) and seating from the elements. It enhances usability, allowing you to enjoy your deck space year-round.

What are some design options for creating a cozy, functional covered deck?

Selecting the right features is key to designing a cozy and functional covered deck. To create a relaxing atmosphere, incorporate comfortable seating, such as outdoor sofas or lounge chairs.

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Breast Cancer Awareness

Each year in October, our team participates in the Real Men Wear Pink campaign, led by the American Cancer Society. Employees who participate in this program wear pink and obtain pledges throughout October to raise money for this cause. Additionally, we raise money for the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. Our fundraising events toward this cause include themed T-shirt sales, in-office bake sales, a Penny Wars competition, 50/50 raffles, and pizza lunches.

Stuff the Truck

Our Stuff the Truck event is another way we give back to the community. The goal of this program is to fill one or more C&L Ward trucks with donation items. These may include canned goods and other non-perishable food, toiletries, warm clothing, blankets, and more. Monetary donations are also accepted, as we collect donations from our employees and other members of the community. Everything collected in the Stuff the Truck event is provided to a local non-profit dedicated to helping community members in need.

Shingles for Shelter

Shingles for Shelter is a C&L Ward program that gives back to the community. Each holiday season around November, we offer a free installed asphalt roof to a homeowner in need. We partner with organizations like ABC Supply Co, Inc. and Metro Sanitation to source the shingles and supply the dumpster to make this project happen. To select a Shingles for Shelter giveaway recipient, we consider things like current roof condition, circumstances, and presentation quality. In short, we offer homeowners a fresh start.

Owens Corning Roof Deployment

Owens Corning and Platinum Preferred Contractors want to give something back to the troops that bravely serve our country, and the families who support them. The Roof Deployment Project is our way of building for the future together.

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Our interactive design centers let you explore the look and feel of the different products we offer before you make any decisions. With design centers throughout Michigan in Davison, Saginaw, and Okemos, we have a design center near you where you can see your options in person. Whether you’re searching for new house windows, a different kind of siding, or a front entry door, our interactive design centers enable you to have complete confidence in the products you select.
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