The Porch Company - Custom Porch Design and Construction - Nashville, Tennessee

Early in the life of The Porch Company, we sent Christmas Cards which had a picture of our cast of characters with well wishes for the coming year. The next addition to the card was some sort of personal statement from each. Because most of our carpenters are resistant to writing homey Christmas messages we would come up with a theme, supported by a quote from the Bible. This worked and we are able (by force) to get everyone to write a one sentence message. Many years later, we keep up the tradition.

One year, we were slated to start a new job in January and the client received our card in December. The client was a bit nervous of workmen coming to her home and the first day of construction she called, very agitated. She wanted to know if she should call the police because someone was tearing her house apart. I explained that was Norm, one of our carpenters, and he was there, as planned, to start construction on the porch. The phone line was quiet for a moment and then she said, “But he’s not on the Christmas Card!” That’s when I realized that, in fact, Norm was absent the day of the photo shoot!

Today we have the ability to photoshop in our absentee people to avoid such angst. I don’t think it’s too hard to determine who was added later, but it’s now part of the fun. First, find the people you know, find their quote and then try and determine who was added via photoshop! Here is this year’s card. I hope you enjoy.

Nancy

The Porch Company Wins 2010 Chrysalis Remodeling Award

The Porch Company (www.porchco.com) is honored to be the Chrysalis Awards’ National Winner in the category of Outdoor Living.   We have previously won Regional Chrysalis Awards in 2000, 2001 and 2006 but this is our first national award.  The Porch Company teamed up with Site Works (www.siteworksoftn.com)  to transform a dated pool and back yard into an easily maintained outdoor living space including a pool pavilion, a fireplace and cooking station, and generous travertine patios to create gathering areas that can handle large parties or dinner for four.

Pool Pavilion with travertine floor & pool deck

Outdoor fireplace and grilling area

Wide limestone steps connecting upper patio space  to pool area.

A master plan insures that the structures and spaces meet the needs of the client in an aesthetic manner.  But it is the details that make the plan great.  On this project, we had drainage issues to resolve to insure function and long term maintenance. We took the function of drainage and turned it into a design element using rain chains and decorative urns to capture and release the water into strip drains strategically placed.  We also raised the curbing around the flower beds to hold mulch in place.

By repeating shapes, patterns and color we unified the elements and created accents.

Contrasting linear and curved lines creates order with softness.

The Porch Company is a design/build construction company working in Nashville, TN and surrounding areas.  We focus on outdoor structures with “walls that breath” with a goal of creating spaces which allow our clients to enjoy A Simpler Way of Life.

A special thank you to my husband, Paul Moore (www.jpaulmoorephoto.com) for the photographs!

About the Chrysalis Awards Program         

The Chrysalis Awards program, begun in 1994, recognizes the nation’s best work in fifteen general categories of residential and commercial remodeling, as well as National Remodeler of the Year winners. The Chrysalis Awards are open to any professional remodeler or design professional in the United States.

Continuing to set new standards of professionalism, 87 remodeling companies from across the United States were named winners at the seventeenth annual Chrysalis Awards for Remodeling Excellence. The winning projects were selected from over 475 entries. The entries were judged on overall design, the creative use of space and materials, and the degree to which the project enhanced the original structure.

Pictures of the 2010 award-winning projects can be seen on the internet at www.chrysalisawards.com beginning in mid June . For more information about the Chrysalis Awards, contact Ken Kanline at 888-263-5687 or at info@chrysalisawards.com.