Adding a deck to your home is a great idea.  You add more space to play outdoors and increase the value of your home all in one swoop.  With Eva-tech you have the added bonus of doing something good for the environment by choosing composite decking over timber decking.  But how do you make your deck unique?  Here are a few ideas on how to bring stylish green building into your own garden.

Trees

No, I don’t mean a little twig.  I mean a real, big tree.  Trees not only make a lovely background as you relax on your deck, they can also be the centre of conversation – and the centre of your deck.  Celebrate the outdoors by incorporating one of Mother Nature’s gifts into your deck design.  Building your deck around a tree gives you the added benefits of a unique look and a bit of shade for those really hot days.  And it’s a simple way to live a little greener.  You could say a tree is the perfect eco-accessory to your composite deck.

Add a Bridge:

What is it about bridges?  They call you to walk across them, take pictures of and from them.  There’s something about a bridge - a small foot bridge, not some high tech suspension bridge - that reminds you of fairy tales and paintings by Monet.  They’re romantic, fun and they draw you to them.  Adding a composite bridge to your deck design can create a unique transition between your garden and home.  It can connect to a pathway that leads guests around your garden and encourages you to use all corners of your outdoor space.

Your bridge, like your deck, should reflect your sense of style; modern, sleek, traditional, quirky, etc..  Whether your bridge goes over a small creek or a flower bed, it’s a creative take on connecting different areas of your outdoor living.

Built-In Seating

The point of a deck is to relax, to sit with friends and shoot the breeze.  But before you can sit, you need a chair.  Or a bench.  Point is, having enough seating for your family and guests is a critical part of a good get together.   There are plenty of options for outdoor furniture, including Eva-tech’s own range.  But with built-in seating you never need to worry about storage space for lounges and outdoor chairs during the winter.  You avoid awkward standing when you run out of chairs.  And with Eva-tech, you eliminate the need for any furniture maintenance.

Built-in seating can be as simple as a straight-forward square bench, or as personalized as a curved seating unit with flower beds and side tables woven in.  Built-in seating sets your deck apart and makes it uniquely suited for your home.  All you need are the cushions!

Your deck will be around for years to come.  Why not think creatively on how to make it unique?  What ideas do you have on how to make your deck stand out?

So far you’ve read here about classic green building initiatives, like Fallingwater, and extreme eco-building concepts, like stick art (some of which is inhabitable).  But now let’s take a look at the green happening right here in our very own company.

Ladies and gentlemen, (dramatic pause) I am pleased to tell you that pictures of the new Eva-Last office are in!  (Although I can’t hear I’m certain you’re cheering wildly from the comfort of your own home).

It’s bright.  It’s spacious.  It’s clean, and most importantly it’s green.  The sight of so much eco-friendly Eva-tech composite stacked and sorted nearly brought tears to my eyes.  Ok, that might be a slight exaggeration.

But, really, the new offices have a sense of freshness about them – and not just because of the new coat of white paint.  There’s a sense of optimism here that the loads of Eva-tech composite going in and out of this place have a purpose; like maybe all our sweat and toil is actually making some sort of positive contribution to the world.

To outsiders it might be just an office but to us on the inside – both in the building and in on the value of building green – it’s the centre of our part of the green building movement.   Not only is Eva-tech made of recycled plastic bottles and sawdust (reusing what would otherwise become landfill mess), but it’s also providing you with a viable alternative to using wood.   To date, Eva-tech has saved exactly eighty-nine trillion trees from being cut down and turned into decking.* I might actually hug a tree later today just thinking about it.

The move into better offices doesn’t just show that Eva-tech, the brand, is becoming more and more popular.  It also tells you that saving the environment is becoming a greater and greater priority for all of us.  We’re walking up to the reality that the status quo won’t cut it, and opening ourselves up to new ways to do things with the environment in mind.

So, well done, You.  Well done, Us.  Well done, Earth and Trees (I’ll stop now before I get more out of control).

*Note that statistics in this blog may be blown out of proportion or completely made up.