Yes, a shed company builds these
The name says sheds. An outdoor room or backyard pavilion for a yard around Saint John is the same trade: the same framing, the same siding, the same roofing. What changes is who it is for.
A shed is closed on every side so things stay dry. An outdoor room leaves a side open, gets a ceiling worth looking up at, and puts posts where a shed would have a wall. It is somewhere you go after supper, not somewhere you put the lawn chairs away.
Siding and roofing come from the same list as the sheds. The charcoal room at the top of the page is board and batten with leaded windows. The blue one below has portholes. Neither looks like a shed with the doors taken off.
How open you want it
The first choice is how much wall. An open-front building keeps the weather off your back and leaves you the view. A timber-frame pavilion stands open all round on posts and braced beams. A covered porch on the front of a building gives you a place to sit outside a room you can lock.
The wind decides a lot of it. If the evening breeze comes off the water or across the field from one side, close that side and open the other.
A hatch is another way to do it. The blue building below has a serving hatch that props open on struts, so the inside and the deck work as one space while it is up, and it closes when it is not.
Built in the shop, or built where it stands
Porch models and smaller rooms are finished in the shop and come out on the trailer like any other building we make. The porch building below was finished inside the shop, shutters and all.
Anything too big to move gets built where it stands. Then the posts, beams and deck go up in your yard instead.
Either way, the ground comes first. If it is going out on the trailer, the truck needs a way into the yard. If it is being built on site, the ground under the posts matters, and where the spot needs it we can level it and lay gravel before anything goes up.
What we build, and what you bring
We build the structure: the floor, the frame, the roof, whatever walls you want and the ceiling over your head. What goes inside it is yours to choose.
Think about the hour you will use it most. A room for morning coffee faces a different way from one for watching the sun go down, and a room beside the pool wants a floor that does not mind wet feet.
Tell us in the form what you picture out there. A place out of the wind, a table for dinner, somewhere dry to watch the rain come across the yard. Pick outdoor room and add a line about the spot. You get a price back for that building, free, and sending the form does not order anything. Or call the shop and describe it.
Before you build.
- Do you supply the furniture?
- We build the building. If you want something built in, ask about it when you call.
- Can it go on my deck or patio?
- Call and ask. It depends on what is under the deck or patio and what is going on top of it.
- How much does an outdoor room cost?
- It depends on the size, the roof and how much of it is walled in, so there is no list price. Describe it in the form and the price you get back is for that building. Asking costs nothing.