Fall Provides the Perfect Season for Charlotte Outdoor Living

Fall is right around the corner and we couldn’t be happier! At Beck Design Group, we love fall! Fall is the time when the weather becomes cooler, football season begins, the leaves change colors, and we celebrate Thanksgiving. Also, did we mention that football season starts?

While the summer months are perfect for entertaining outside, many Charlotte homeowners also like to take advantage of fall’s milder weather to host their guests outdoors. As a result, Beck Design Group usually sees a spike in interest for outdoor living spaces.

“Outdoor living areas are now considered a popular necessity for enjoying your home and entertaining guests,” said Adam Ferrara, owner of Beck Design Group. “Outdoor living spaces are also a great way to expand the overall livable square footage of your home.”

Outdoor Living Embraces Modern Styles

Today’s outdoor living spaces aren’t your average backyard spaces. These modern spaces incorporate fireplaces, installed grills, outdoor kitchens, integrated sound systems, televisions, and refrigerators. Thanks to the emergence of outdoor-specific appliances, these items that were once thought of as luxury items are now affordable. The notion of having a functioning outdoor kitchen is no longer unrealistic.

“Charlotte homeowners enjoy entertaining and want to create spaces that are inviting,” says Ferrara. “These outdoor kitchens provide the perfect place to gather and add convenience.”

Charlotte Outdoor Living Projects

At Beck Design Group, we work with Charlotte homeowners on designing and building custom outdoor living spaces. We offer the following outdoor living design/build projects:

• Decks and Patios
• Gazebos
• Outdoor Fireplaces and Fire Pits
• Screened Porches
• Living Areas
• Outdoor Kitchens
• Built-In Grills

Beck Design Group can help you design and create your own custom outdoor living space. To learn more, please call Adam Ferrara at 803-746-7908 or email Adam. We look forward to discussing how you can enhance your outdoor living space and enjoy the wonderful fall season!

Outdoor Living Company in Charlotte NC Builds Custom Outdoor Spaces with Landscaping & Landscape Architects

Beck Design Group has just completed one of our outdoor living design, construction and landscaping projects for a homeowner in southeast Charlotte.  “This outdoor living project was a turnkey effort where we provided construction and design planning through to the landscape design and construction,” said Adam Ferrara, owner of Beck Design Group.

As homeowners are remaining in their existing homes for longer periods of time, outdoor living design and build projects are becoming more and more frequent for custom home builders like Beck Design Group.  “The economy is almost dictating how often families now move into larger and newer homes,” says Ferrara.  “We have seen our home remodeling and home building clients stay in their homes for longer periods of time and invest in expanding and remodeling their existing home.”

Outdoor Living Design + Build for your Charlotte Area Home

The photos on this post are from a newly-completed outdoor living project where Beck Design Group designed and constructed the outdoor living area on the upper deck, as well as the extended patio and total yard landscaping.

Beck Design Group designs and builds custom outdoor living and landscaping projects.  We have one of the best landscape and outdoor living design-architects in Charlotte!  Call Adam Ferrara at 803-746-7908 or email Adam to schedule a private appointment to discuss your outdoor living ideas today!

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Charlotte Outdoor Living Contractor & Landscape Architect Under One Roof

Because our area of the Carolinas has such an extended outdoor period, usually April through October, we are spending more and more time and resources to enjoying our outdoor spaces!  “We have seen a tremendous increase in inquiries and homeowner project work for outdoor living and large landscaping projects,” says Adam Ferrara with Beck Design Group.  “The economy is keeping people in their homes for longer periods of time and that leads to larger investments into making both the interior and exterior home spaces more comfortable and personalized.”

Beck Design Group is known across Greater Charlotte for our exceptional new home construction, our kitchen remodels, our garage, basement and attic remodels, and our outdoor living space makeovers.  “We have several client projects this spring and summer where we are working with them on an interior remodel or construction job and then moving directly into a new patio or outdoor kitchen,” says Ferrara.

One of the very creative design members on our Beck Design Group team is a professional landscape architect and designer.  “Vincent collaborates with our homeowners to design not only the physical patio, porch or outdoor kitchen concept but the beautiful landscaping and yard areas that surround the property,” adds Ferrara.

Outdoor Living Landscaping Capabilities with Beck Design Group

• Hardscape patios, walkways and gathering areas
• Outdoor kitchens, fireplaces and dining areas
• Open outdoor living room spaces or enclosed additions
• Fully-landscaped grounds and gardens
• Interactive water features
• Pool houses, gazebos and cabanas

Outdoor living spaces, outdoor landscaping areas and interior rooms are growing closer together as our living patterns flow seamlessly from outdoors to indoors!  Call Adam Ferrara with Beck Design Group at 803-746-7908 or email Adam to schedule a private meeting at your home to discuss your outdoor living and landscaping ideas!

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Outdoor Living Designers + Architects Create Beautiful Outdoor Spaces for Charlotte Area Homeowners

Enjoying the great Carolina outdoors is an activity that we all enjoy around Greater Charlotte.  Spending time with our family and friends outdoors is relaxing, rejuvenating, enjoyable and good for an overall healthy lifestyle!

“Clients can greatly benefit from an independent design perspective, by having the freedom of developing their project without the stress of building it immediately,” said Adam Ferrara with Beck Design Group. “Projects can easily be designed to be implemented in phases including planting, grading, masonry, carpentry, pools & spas and cabanas.”

At Beck Design Group, we work with our homeowners on designing, building and expanding outdoor living spaces from smaller patios and decks to larger outdoor kitchens, gazebos, pool houses and covered spaces.

Our Outdoor Living + Landscaping Professional Services

• Landscape plans
• Elevations
• Sketches
• Project management
• Architectural Rendering
• Sketch Drawings
• 3D Modeling
• Master Planning, Entry Monuments
• Photo Enhancement
• Project Management / Administration

“Our strength lies in our ability to arrange all of the separate elements of our clients’ ideal outdoor living space into an environment that is cohesive, enjoyable, safe and dynamically changing through the seasons” added Ferrara.

Beck Design Group is an experienced, professional outdoor living design + build company.  Call Adam Ferrara with Beck Design Group at 803-746-7908 or email adam@beckdesigngroupllc.com to schedule a private meeting at your home to discuss your outdoor living project ideas.

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Outdoor Living Designer Contractor in Charlotte Builds Beautiful Projects

Beck Design Group designs and builds beautiful homes, remodels and renovates homes, and designs and builds beautiful outdoor living spaces!

The term “outdoor living space” has grown to encompass just about everything that is outside of your front or back door!  Beck Design Group designs and builds custom outdoor living spaces that are incomparable in the Charlotte marketplace.

Our Outdoor Living Space Difference

• We have an experienced, licensed landscape architect on our team
• We are professional, true builders and designers
• We have an experienced, licensed architect on our team
• We have experienced, licensed general contractors on our team
• We have experienced and motivated outdoor living hard scape, construction, grading, planting, and design specialists
• We design and build outdoor kitchens, outdoor living areas, decks and porches, pergolas, gazebos, and all types of patio surfaces

In other words, Beck Design Group does everything with outdoor living after the point that the lawn mower is turned off.  Call Adam Ferrara with Beck Design Group at 803-746-7908 or email adam@beckdesigngroupllc.com to schedule a private meeting at your home to discuss your outdoor living project ideas.

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Charlotte Remodeling Contractor Features Interior Redesign Project Photos

In addition to building new, custom homes, Beck Design Group works with homeowners across Greater Charlotte and Fort Mill to remodel and redesign existing rooms and homes!

“We are seeing Charlotte homeowners staying in their homes for longer periods of time,” says Adam Ferrara, owner, Beck Design Group.  “And because homeowners are staying in their homes longer, they are investing money into remodeling and redesign projects to transform their existing homes into more of their idea of a dream home.”

The photos on this post are from a recent home remodeling and redesign project that Beck Design Group did for a homeowner who had decided to invest more money into improving their in-home lifestyle.

“We work with our remodeling and redesign homeowners on just about every type of remodeling project imaginable,” says Ferrara.  “In 2012, we are seeing homeowners invest money into remodeling kitchens, outdoor living areas, and overall expansion of existing home square footage.”

If you would like to learn more about how we can help you build a new home or remodel your existing home, please call Adam Ferrara at Beck Design Group at 803-746-7908 or email adam@beckdesigngroupllc.com. 

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Custom Home Builder Grows into Charlotte Neighborhoods in 2012

“On behalf of Beck Design Group, we would like to thank all of our customers and associates for a wonderful year in 2011,” announced Adam Ferrara, builder, Beck Design Group.  “In this new economy of instant ups and downs, we are lucky that our business model and plan provides for a steady and consistent growth with our customers.”

Beck Design Group is beginning expansion into more neighborhoods in 2012 with our custom home building and remodeling services.  “This is a really solid time in our company history to reach out to the Greater Charlotte custom home building marketplace to offer our unique array of home building and remodeling services,” said Ferrara.

You will begin to notice Beck Design Group advertising across select neighborhoods throughout the Greater Charlotte area.  Ads like the one you see on this post will be featured.

Call Adam Ferrara with Beck Design Group at 803-746-7908 or email adam@beckdesigngroupllc.com to schedule a private business meeting to discuss the custom home building and remodeling plans that you may have for your home in 2012!

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Fort Mill Custom Home Builder Adds Outdoor Living Rooms & Outdoor Covered Porches and Patios

You are absolutely right.  Fall is one of the best times of the year to add-on small projects to your house, like a screened porch or screened outdoor room!  And Beck Design Group works with Charlotte and Fort Mill homeowners across the region to build these specialty projects.

The true 4-season weather pattern that we enjoy here in the Carolina’s is always enjoyed better when you can be outside with protection from the elements. Beck Design Group has designed and constructed many different types of outdoor patio rooms and outdoor living rooms.

Take, for example, the outdoor porch/living room that is featured on this page.  The homeowner wanted an outdoor room that was open to enjoy their back yard but still had some of the amenities of an indoor room…ceiling fan, canned lights, framed open window spaces, and a finished enclosed ceiling.  This new outdoor room can now have either screens or windows installed when the homeowner is ready!  A perfect outdoor living addition that was fast to design and build and was extremely affordable.

If you would like to have an outdoor living room or outdoor porch designed and built this Fall for your home, please call Adam Ferrara at Beck Design Group at 803-746-7908 or email adam@beckdesigngroupllc.com.  These are the type of projects that are quick to complete and add great value to your home and home life!

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Charlotte Fort Mill Residential Home Remodeling Contractor Builder List of Survival Tips for Remodeling!

One of the first steps to all of our Beck Design Group home remodeling projects is to work with you to educate and inform you about the specific process that will be taken to complete your home remodeling project.  We feel that information and communication is key in reducing our client’s stress and worry and minimizing our client’s possible inconveniences or interruptions to the family during the remodeling process.

With this in mind, we have developed our own Top 10 List of How to Survive Your Charlotte or Fort Mill Home Remodeling Project managed by Beck Design Group.

Tip #1: Plan for everyday life.

Your house may be in shambles, but you’ll still want hot meals, a snug bed, a refreshing shower, and clean clothes. Seek safe harbor away from the confusion by staying at a motel, taking refuge with a kind relative, or even moving into a travel trailer or recreational vehicle.

But don’t go so far away from home that you lose touch with the project. If you can, or must, live at home during remodeling, rearrange rooms before work begins. To prepare for a kitchen makeover, move your microwave and refrigerator to a place where they can still be used. If the water will be turned off for long periods of time, order bottled water and scout out a place for showers. A bedroom may even become a combination living room/kitchen for awhile.

Tip #2: Keep waste in its place.

There’s no way to avoid a mess when remodeling. But the tide of rubble, trash, and dust can be contained. Before the swing of the first hammer, we will work out waste logistics with you. Hang tarps in doorways to seal off rooms where remodeling is under way. Establish a plan for handling waste materials so they will be routed away from sensitive areas, such as gardens or porches, and hauled away on a regular basis. If floors need protection, see to it that they are covered up.

Tip #3: Defend against air pollution.

When determining the timetable, pin down the periods when glues, finishes, or other odorous materials will be used. Make certain the house will be properly, even excessively, ventilated when smells are at their peak. Escape to Grandma’s.

Tip #4: Protect your Property from Dust.

Some dust will always drift out of work areas. Electronic equipment, fine furniture, or other valuables should be covered or removed. Also, keep expensive telephones out of the remodeling area.

Tip #5: Communicate with Beck Design Group…We will with You.

Keep the lines of communication open and stick to your plans as much as possible. Mid-course project changes often lead to unexpected service charges.

Tip #6: Let your neighbors know.

Whenever you decide on renovating your home, make sure the neighbors know. You wouldn’t want to take on any brawls with the neighbors over noise issues. Take along a basket of muffins or invite them over for a party after the renovation. They will surely be cooperative if you take on a positive and friendly attitude.

Tip #7: This is the perfect time to eliminate clutter.

What a great time to go through all of your closets and storage spaces to eliminate items like the old wardrobes, exercise equipment gathering dust in your garage, clothes that haven’t been worn for over two years, old books and keepsakes that are never used, old linens, and items stored in the garage. You’ll be surprised at the reclaimed space that suddenly is available. It will make you feel good during your remodeling project plus it will give you new space!

Tip #8: Protect Your Belongings.

Remove pictures from walls and store fragile items away from the work area. Lock up or remove valuables. Roll up area rugs and store them out of the way. Seal clothing and linens in plastic bags. We will tape plastic sheets to doorways, windows and air vents to seal off rooms where remodeling is under way. If we are building an addition, we will not break into the main house until the last possible moment so most of the mess will be outside for most of the project. If floors need protection, we will see to it that they are covered up. If you have any special protection requirements, please let us know as soon as possible.

Tip #9: Protect Your Plants.

If we are going to be working in and around your garden or shrubs, you need to move those plants. Before we start, decide which plants you want to save. Saving plants during a remodel means digging them up and potting them; or digging and heeling them in some place away from the construction site. Let us know which plants might be damaged. We do all we can to protect them, but keep in mind that if we are digging a foundation three feet from your clematis arbor, some damage is almost inevitable.

Tip #10: Prepare yourself for a roller coaster of emotions.

Your initial excitement will nose dive once the mess, noise and organized confusion of remodeling begin. At different stages in the process, it’s perfectly normal for your feelings to go up and down. Expect it to happen. Just remind yourself that your original enthusiasm will return with interest when the remodeling is finished and your beautiful new space is ready to use.

Beck Design Group works on all types of home remodeling projects:  kitchen remodels, master bedroom remodels, bathroom remodels, patio/porch remodels, outdoor living area remodels, attic/basement remodels, and every room in between!  Call Adam Ferrara of Beck Design Group at 803-746-7908 or email adam@beckdesigngroupllc.com to schedule a private appointment at your home to discuss your home remodeling ideas!

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Piper Glen Charlotte Residential Remodeling Contractor Beck Design Group

Piper Glen has a fantastic reputation as one of the premier neighborhoods and communities in Greater Charlotte.  An above-market standard exists that Piper Glen homeowners demand when residential remodels, upgrades and renovations take place.  Beck Design Group helps Piper Glen homeowners maintain their above-market standards.

Remodel, upgrade and renovation projects in Piper Glen include many options:

- Gourmet kitchen upgrades with professional chef-grade appliances and cooking features

- Custom-designed, hand-crafted, built-in features like home office and library shelving

- Attic and basement renovations into family living spaces, game rooms, wine cellars and media rooms

- Outdoor living room additions like covered/enclosed lanai, pool house or gazebo

- Garage makeovers featuring tiled flooring, ribbed pattern parking mats, or rolled flooring options

Beck Design Group designs, crafts, builds and manages every type of residential improvement project that you would like to introduce to your home.  We enjoy and demand the highest levels of quality and perfection from our craftsmen, tradesmen, journeymen, and employees.

To arrange your personal and private meeting with Beck Design Group owner Adam Ferrara, please call his personal line at 803-246-4264, our offices at 803-746-7908 or email adam@beckdesigngroupllc.com.  We look forward to meeting with you and hearing about your ideas and plans for improving your home in Piper Glen!

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Charlotte Fort Mill Outdoor Kitchen, Patio, Screened Porch and Outdoor Space Design + Build!

Outdoor patios, decks and living areas for Charlotte and Fort Mill homeowners make a wonderful extension of your home’s footprint and bring additional return on investment down the road.  And besides all of those great side benefits, they are really fun to enjoy!

Beck Design Group recently completed a really beautiful and custom outdoor living area for a Baxter Village homeowner.  This patio area features a custom stone storage area for their Green Egg cooker and other outdoor essentials.  Even in smaller outdoor living footprints, we can create a custom area where you and your family can enjoy many nights and weekends of outdoor comfort and convenience!  We hope you enjoy the photos.

Beck Design Group can help you imagine and create your own custom outdoor patio, deck, gazebo, screened porch and living area.  Call Adam Ferrara at 803-746-7908 or email adam@beckdesigngroupllc.com to schedule a private meeting where we can discuss your ideas for improving your outdoor living space and life!

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Charlotte Fort Mill Baxter Village Outdoor Living Contractor Presents a New Idea in Outdoor Living – the Outdoor GreatRoom!

The Greater Charlotte, Fort Mill and Baxter Village “summer lifestyle” takes us outdoors to our back yards to enjoy the warm summer days and summer nights.  And few upgrades to your home can provide as much enjoyment as the addition or upgrade of your patio, outdoor kitchen and outdoor living area.

Beck Design Group has identified some really beautiful and functional outdoor living trends moving eastward from the west coast!  One of the really exciting ideas is the concept of an Outdoor GreatRoom.  The Outdoor GreatRoom combines many of the finer elements of upscale outdoor living:  the beautiful stone or wood-deck patio, grilling center, fireplace, wet bar area, weather-tolerant furnishings, and a unique pergola or permanent covering.

Here in the Carolinas, we like the combination of shaded outdoor living structures, a pool or natural pond, outdoor living areas that flow naturally from the indoors, outdoor kitchens, and natural building materials.  It’s a perfect match to the trends in outdoor living coming from California!

Beck Design Group can design and build every style, type and size of outdoor living area and structure.  The Outdoor GreatRoom is a wonderful new design + build + living idea.  It will be a wonderful, natural and comfortable outdoor gathering place for all of the warm days and nights ahead in 2011.

You can see in the photo to the right that the outdoor GreatRoom concept includes everything that you would have indoors…except it’s all moved outdoors!

Call Adam Ferrara at Beck Design Group to schedule your own private meeting to discuss ideas and concepts to increase your outdoor living space while increasing the beauty, functionality, and value of your home!  803-746-7908 or email adam@beckdesigngroupllc.com.

 

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