Extending Your Home’s Living Space with a Deck

This year’s seemingly endless winter is officially turning the corner to longer days and delightfully warmer weather. It’s finally time to come out of hibernation and get outside again! If your East Bay home already has a deck then you understand how this outdoor space is an indispensable extension of your home.  However, if your home is lacking this extension, then perhaps you’re struggling with a good ol’ case of deck envy—But hopefully, not for long!

At HDR Remodeling we understand how an integrated interior and exterior environment can improve the quality of life for families. A deck can be a private outdoor space to drink a cup of morning coffee and prepare for the day with sunshine and birdsong; a place to entertain and BBQ with friends and loved ones, or that special location within your home to enjoy legendary Bay Area sunsets with a Napa Valley favorite in hand.

The Deck Challenge

If you’re standing in your home overlooking a seldom-used yard filled with dead grass and scraggly landscaping; or perhaps the view from your bedroom window faces the Golden Gate Bridge—but there’s no place to enjoy a sunset with friends except the foot of your bed… Or maybe your home is built into a 45-degree slope, then we urge you to consider a deck. In fact, we challenge you to consider it!

How To Participate:

Step 1: Take it outside! 

Step 2: Close your eyes and imagine yourself standing on your very own deck. Where is it located? What features does it have? How do you feel? Now, ask yourself: “What am I waiting for?”

Step 3: Let us help bring your vision to life! 

Did you know when HDR Remodeling first started out in business, designing and building decks became our “bread and butter” project? For nearly four decades, we’ve added decks to a variety of homes—some with near-vertical footprints—to create expansive and convivial spaces for families to enjoy for generations!

The Outcome:

There are countless reasons—and advantages (aside from increasing square footage)—for adding a deck to your home. Decks add livable space and can improve your home’s flow, literally, with improved ventilation, the addition of natural light, and easy access to an outdoor environment. 

Perhaps you have a passion for gardening but your “yard” is 30’ below, down a steep slope with two sets of stairs. Now, imagine a deck with integrated raised garden beds for growing produce or cut flowers—just steps from your kitchen. 

Love to dine al fresco on warm evenings? An outdoor dining room with built-in storage disguised as seating provides a place to store furniture cushions, summer toys, and family games, or even your table settings for convenience, comfort, and cleanliness.

And for those who dream big (and have the budget) imagine taking the entire kitchen outdoors — With luxury appliances, wood-fired pizza ovens, a fireplace or firepit and an Ofuro soaking tub on the side… You may never have to go indoors again!

It all starts by taking yourself outside, imagining a life of outdoor luxury, then allowing us to bring your vision to life! 

So we ask you… Do you accept our challenge?