I have been pushing our partner to add a deck onto our house, right now every one of us have a side door that has a small little pad and stairs, and basically you have enough room to rest and look out at the woods, then other than that, the side door is pointless; I want the stairs to lead to a much larger pad and be a deck.
I have patio furniture that could rest on it and I would like the grill there as well.
It would additionally be nice to keep our garbage cans and recycling bins in there. Right now they just lay in our yard looking horrible. I easily would like to enclose the deck though. I want to have a room so the rain wouldn’t affect me when I rest out there; Having it screened would be easily nice. I could keep bugs out and get a breeze. If I am being honest, I easily want to have it totally enclosed with windows. I then would want a ductless mini cut unit. I could have it be a separate cooking section or an enclosed gym if I wanted to. Hot southern summers or cold winters wouldn’t affect our deck time. Having heating and cooling in that space would add value to the house. It does add quite a bit more money onto the project though; So I don’t suppose if I can convince our partner that adding walls, windows and a HVAC unit are the smart move. I might just get a wood deck and that is it. I could be glad with that.