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One page. Every structure.
Pick what you are building. The drawing, the price range and the send button work the same for all of them; the options they share carry across when you switch, and the ones that only make sense for one kind of structure appear when you pick it.
What are you building? (deck, porch and boot room share one bench; carport and garage share another)
Start from one of ours
This order (one piece or several)
What it isan open deck, a porch under a roof, or a boot room with walls and a second door
Boot room walls
Where it sits (off the main floor, or a second-storey door)
Up to 7½ in below the door needs no step. Lower than that gets a landing at the door with steps down — and, when the deck has ramps, a ramp up to the door along the house wall; a lower deck means a shorter ramp from the ground.
Shape
Material
Colour
Size
Floor
Board pattern
Railing
Steps and ramp (the deck is the top landing, the grass the bottom one)
Experiment: the stairs & ramps designer — configurations with counts and preferences instead of these toggles.
Steps style (a landing lets long stairs fold back or turn the corner)
Ramp style
Leaves from
Runs
Lower level (the tier off the front)
Ramp style
Leaves from
Runs
Upper level
Steps style
Ramp style
Leaves from
Runs
Ramp settings (for every ramp on this deck)
Slope (1:12 is the barrier-free standard; steeper is shorter)
Gap between the ramp and the deck
Canopy
Upgrades
110 V receptacles (every deck gets the ones on the house wall; these are extra, on the railing posts)
Hot tub
Size
Where (any corner, or the wrap-around; a ramp that needs that corner moves the tub to the next free one)
Elevation (rim against the deck surface)
Foundation
Access panel (to reach the pump and heater)
Power
Heat
Water
Enclosure
Gas BBQ (supply and preferred spot)
Preferred location
What’s in the number
Start from one of ours
Garage or carport
Attached or detached
The house it attaches to (so the roof and walls line up with it)
Roughly how long the wall it attaches to is. The house is drawn bigger than the garage unless you say otherwise.
Bays
RV or camper bays (14-ft walls, a 12 × 12 door)
Workshop bay (extra width beside the vehicles)
Depth
Floor (at grade, or over a basement)
Way down to the basement
Roof
Which way it drains (a lean-to leans against the house and drains away from it)
Carport roof
Roof pitch
Roof material
Framing
Doors
Door layout
Siding
Colour
Trim
Windows
Man doors (right wall first, then the back, then the left)
Upgrades
Outside
Working inside (shown in the description and price; the drawing is the outside)
Overhead hoist (under the rafters)
Hoist arm
Retractable reels
Boot room / winter airlock (a second door between the cold and the house)
Driveway
Concrete coating
What’s in the number
Start from one of ours
Attached or detached
The house it attaches to (so the roof and walls line up with it)
The door it opens from (its sill height decides the steps)
Whenever the sunroom floor sits more than 7½″ above or below the door pan, steps are drawn and priced.
Style
Size
Roof
Walls (from all glass to no wall glass at all)
Windows (in the solid walls)
Frame colour
Door
Seasons
Floor elevation (at grade, raised, or sunken below grade)
Steps down (a sunken floor needs a way in)
Interior steps use a little of the room but you never clear snow off them. A stairwell outside keeps the whole floor.
Peak ventilation
Boot room / winter airlock (a second door between the cold and the room)
Extras
Greenhouse
A greenhouse is glass all round with a floor that can get wet; vents and shade cloth are what make it work in July.
What’s in the number
How the options line up
One set of options, eight honest exceptions.
Every structure on this page offers the same kinds of choices — what it sits on, what it is made of, how it attaches to the house, how you get in and out, what services it needs, what it costs — and a control only disappears when it truly cannot apply. These are the only places the builders differ on purpose:
- Deck boards are a floor for a deck, a porch or a boot room only (each can also take a solid or an insulated sealed floor). A sunroom, garage or carport never gets deck boards.
- Insulated, fully finished walls belong to the boot room, the sunroom and the garage.
- A second-floor attachment — on tall posts, or over another structure — is offered on the deck and the sunroom.
- A car entrance and overhead doors are a garage thing; a carport is open by definition.
- Different walls top and bottom (a knee wall below, glass above) is a sunroom thing.
- A floor below grade is offered on the garage and the sunroom.
- A basement is a garage thing.
- Any floor type below ground level is a sunroom thing; a garage below grade is a slab over a basement.
What carries across when you switch: the view angle; the house it attaches to (storeys, roof, ridge, wall length, attached or detached, a boot room at the door) between garage and sunroom; the footprint and the storey between deck and sunroom. Everything else keeps its own settings on its own bench, so nothing you set is lost by looking at another structure.
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Walkthroughs are free and take about an hour.