All hands on deck – ideas for a fresh air lifestyle

Introducing a deck to your home has many advantages, from creating an outdoor room to achieving a gateway to your garden to informing the architecture of the home itself. These projects provide inspiration for just what is possible – change is good.

1. Framed and fabulous

Melonie Bayl-Smith, BIJL Architecture

Here steel multipane pivot doors, by Award Architectural Aluminium, pivot outwards – giving this deck area a light, framed formality – black steel and warm wood make for an appealing pairing.

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2. Busy outdoors

Buildology

This rear deck is covered by operable louvres – together deck and 'roof' direct the eye to the lush rear garden while having the air of a room extending from the living spaces.

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3. Raised expectations

Plant Architect

The home renovation added a large sliding door as well as a swinging door off the back – to accommodate these doors, the designers created a raised deck directly off the house.

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4. Come right through

Landmark Homes Taupo

Decks don't have to be out the front or out the back or running along the side – sometimes, as here, the deck can meander boldly right through the footprint of the home itself – evoking a sense of spaciousness, bringing natural light deep into the design and creating interesting internal outlooks.

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5. Less add-on, more centrepiece

Mint Landscape Design

By the time you include a pergola with heating built in and a full formal dining setting your outdoor space has been given high functioning, highly frequented status – but it all began with that Blackbutt timber deck!

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6. Fresh air's great for a hangover

mcmahon and nerlich

A sheltered deck is a year-round deck and in this case the house itself lends a hand – for this renovation, the deck was an integral consideration when it came to introducing the rear extension.

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7. Lifestyle plus

Carter Williamson Architects

Decks often support outdoor living spaces but this example is next level – living, dining, cooking, privacy from the neighbours, pool viewing station and even a skylight on top – this deck supports an entire al fresco lifestyle

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Story by: Trendsideas