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Outdoor Living Spaces in Loveland, CO

More Colorado Living, Right Outside Your Back Door

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Why Loveland Homeowners Choose Christie's

A Loveland Backyard
Built for Every Season

Cool September evenings in Loveland are worth something, if you have a covered space with a gas fire going, you’re outside until the stars come out. For more than 25 years, Christie’s has helped Loveland homeowners build outdoor spaces engineered for exactly that kind of use, not just the warm weeks of July.

This climate is specific. At roughly 5,000 feet, your backyard takes on UV exposure, wet snow loads, hail, and fifty-degree temperature swings that expose every shortcut a builder might take with materials or structure. We design around those realities from the first conversation, composite decking with lifetime warranties, frost-resistant pavers, covered kitchen zones that protect against afternoon hail, and pergola structures specified for Colorado ground snow loads. Whether your home sits near the foothills on the west side or in one of Loveland’s newer eastern subdivisions, we bring the local knowledge to get permits filed correctly, HOA sequencing handled, and a finished outdoor space that earns its place in your yard for decades.

Since 1999

25+ Years

Helping Loveland homeowners create outdoor spaces that hold up to Colorado's climate and feel personal, comfortable, and genuinely worth coming home to.

One Team

One Connected Team

One team handles your Loveland outdoor space from the first design conversation through final walkthrough, so nothing gets lost between planning and build.

Where We Work

Loveland, CO

We design outdoor living spaces for Loveland homes, built for the Front Range climate, your property's character, and the way your family actually spends time outside.

Covered and Warranted

Built-In Protection

Your finished outdoor space is backed by our workmanship warranty, so you can enjoy it through every Colorado season with confidence.

What Makes Outdoor Living Spaces Different In Loveland

Built Around What
Makes Loveland Different

Some evenings in Loveland, the light off the foothills is so good you don’t want to go back inside, and that’s exactly why the outdoor space has to be built for more than just summer. At roughly 5,000 feet, you’re dealing with real snow loads, hail that shows up without much warning, UV exposure that fades and warps materials fast, and temperature swings that can swing 50 degrees in a single day. Every material choice, structural call, and layout decision we make is shaped by those realities, composite decking with lifetime warranties, pergola systems engineered for Colorado snow, frost-resistant pavers, and covered kitchen zones that hold up when the weather doesn’t cooperate. That’s what makes a Loveland outdoor space genuinely different: it’s built for how you actually live here, not just how it looks in the catalog.

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Snow, Hail, and Afternoon Storms

Loveland can go from a warm sunny afternoon to hail, wind, or wet snow faster than you’d expect, especially heading into spring or fall. Covered structures, smart drainage, and materials rated for Colorado’s freeze-thaw cycles mean your space stays ready and comfortable no matter what the Front Range decides to throw at it.

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Ranch Homes, Updated for Real Life

A lot of Loveland’s ranch and two-story homes were built in the 1980s and 1990s, back when a pressure-treated wood deck was considered finished. Getting a well-designed outdoor living space connected to one of those homes means taking a careful look at the existing ledger, framing, and roofline so what we build feels solid, code-compliant, and genuinely part of the home, not an afterthought bolted onto the back.

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Grade Changes, Drainage, and Terrain

Loveland’s older in-town and foothills-adjacent neighborhoods often bring sloped lots, mature trees, and drainage patterns that have been doing their own thing for decades. We work with those existing conditions, not around them, so the finished space moves naturally through your yard, stays dry when the snow melts, and feels like it grew there rather than landed on top of it.

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Foothills Views, Wind, and Privacy

Loveland’s views toward the foothills and the open western sky can make an outdoor space feel extraordinary, but the afternoon sun and the prevailing northwest wind are real considerations that can make an unprotected patio genuinely uncomfortable to use. We think through sun angles, wind exposure, neighboring sight lines, and natural screening so your family gets the view you came here for without giving up shade, shelter, or the sense of privacy that makes a backyard feel like yours.
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Loveland, CO Neighborhoods

Outdoor Living Spaces Across
All of Loveland, CO

Some evenings in Loveland, the light drops across the foothills in a way that makes you want to stay outside just a little longer, and the right backyard makes that effortless. From the older ranch homes tucked into Loveland’s western neighborhoods, with their mature trees and well-worn yards waiting for a real transformation, to the newer subdivisions along the east side where the concrete slab simply isn’t enough anymore, every part of this city has its own version of that moment. The outdoor space you build here needs to hold up to Colorado’s hail, heavy snow, and wild temperature swings, but it also needs to feel like yours: a covered kitchen for fall dinners, a fire feature that pulls everyone outside on a cool September night, a four-season room that works in February just as well as July. That’s the standard we hold ourselves to across Loveland’s neighborhoods. Whatever your yard looks like today, we help you see what it can actually become for the family that lives there.

Buckhorn Ranch

Where the Ranch Life Runs All the Way to Your Back Door

Out here on the pasture edge of Loveland, your property already has the kind of breathing room most homeowners only dream about, and an outdoor living space should honor that scale, not shrink it. Buckhorn Ranch lots invite covered entertaining areas, fire features, and kitchen zones that feel rooted in the land rather than dropped onto it. Whether it’s a gathering space off the main residence or an outdoor room that connects a guest house to the yard, we design around what your acreage makes possible and how your family actually moves through it.

Mariana Butte

Where the Course Views Belong to You Every Season

Evenings in Mariana Butte come with something most neighborhoods can’t offer, a backyard that opens toward the golf course, the sky, and the kind of quiet that makes you want to stay outside longer. Your outdoor space should be worthy of that setting: a covered kitchen and fire feature that anchor the gathering, integrated lighting that carries the evening well past sunset, and wind-conscious design that keeps the space comfortable when the Front Range weather shifts. Architectural guidelines here are real, and every detail we specify, materials, finishes, structure height, is chosen to work within the community’s standards while reflecting the custom character of your home.

City Center

Where Old Loveland Finally Gets to Breathe

City Center homes have been around long enough to earn a backyard that finally keeps up with them. These Victorian-era lots carry real character, mature trees, established yards, and bones that most newer neighborhoods just don’t have, and that gives us something genuine to work with. A covered patio with integrated lighting, a gas fire feature tucked under a pergola, or a multi-zone entertaining platform can make a century-old home feel like it was always meant to live this way. We pay close attention to historic overlay guidelines here so the outdoor space earns its place beside the architecture, not in spite of it.

Boyd Lake

Where Colorado Living Actually Happens

Boyd Lake homes have always had something worth stepping outside for, the water, the light off the lake, the kind of quiet that makes you want to stay. We build outdoor spaces that make it easier to do exactly that, whether you’re working with a mid-century ranch that’s never had a real deck or a remodeled shoreline property that deserves an outdoor kitchen to match. Covered structures, fire features, and defined gathering zones turn a backyard here into the room your family actually ends up in, from early spring evenings through Colorado’s long golden falls. The lake is right there, your outdoor space should feel like it belongs to the same life.

Centerra

Where Your Backyard Finally Matches Your Life

Centerra homes are built around lakes, trails, and a neighborhood that already leans into the outdoors, and yet most of these backyards are still sitting on an undersized concrete slab with nowhere to actually land. Your family deserves better than that. A covered kitchen zone, a fire feature to gather around on cool September evenings, and integrated lighting that stretches the night, all of it designed to work through Colorado’s shoulder seasons, not just July. That’s the kind of outdoor space that finally matches how Centerra families already live.

Our Loveland Outdoor Living Spaces Process

A Clear Path to
More Time Outside

Creating an outdoor living space in Loveland should feel energizing, not stressful. Our connected design-build team walks your project from the very first conversation through final walkthrough, managing every detail, keeping you in the loop, and making sure every choice reflects how you actually want to live out here.
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Initial Consultation

We start by listening, how you want to use the space, what a September evening out here should feel like, and what your current yard is missing. We also talk through your timeline, your priorities, and your investment range so you have honest guidance and a clear picture of exactly what comes next.

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Planning & Budgeting

Our team reads how your Loveland property actually works, sun angles, prevailing west winds, grade changes, drainage, and the sight lines that matter most to you. From there, we explore layout options, Colorado-appropriate materials, and a realistic project budget built around the outdoor environment you’re ready to create.

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Design & Development

Once the direction feels right, we develop the full picture together. Your covered structures, kitchen zone, fire feature, lighting plan, and finish selections are shaped around your home, your yard, and the way your family plans to use this space. You’ll see the design take form before construction ever starts, so every decision feels like yours.

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Permitting & Preparation

We handle City of Loveland permit filings, HOA pre-approvals, trade scheduling, and material coordination, all the moving parts that need to line up before your project breaks ground. Our team sequences everything correctly the first time, so there are no avoidable delays and you always know where things stand.

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Construction

This is when the covered kitchen, fire feature, and evening lighting you’ve been picturing start to actually take shape. Our team manages every phase of construction and stays in close contact with you throughout. You’ll always know what’s happening, what’s coming next, and how your Loveland outdoor space is moving forward.

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Final Walk-Through

Before we call it finished, we walk through every corner of your new outdoor space together and look at the details up close. We answer your questions, take care of anything still needing attention, and make sure it’s truly ready for cool fall evenings around the fire and long summer nights with people you love.

Our Loveland Outdoor Living Spaces Process

A Clear Path to
More Time Outside

Creating an outdoor living space in Loveland should feel energizing, not stressful. Our connected design-build team walks your project from the very first conversation through final walkthrough, managing every detail, keeping you in the loop, and making sure every choice reflects how you actually want to live out here.

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Initial Consultation

We start by listening, how you want to use the space, what a September evening out here should feel like, and what your current yard is missing. We also talk through your timeline, your priorities, and your investment range so you have honest guidance and a clear picture of exactly what comes next.

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Planning & Budgeting

Our team reads how your Loveland property actually works, sun angles, prevailing west winds, grade changes, drainage, and the sight lines that matter most to you. From there, we explore layout options, Colorado-appropriate materials, and a realistic project budget built around the outdoor environment you’re ready to create.

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Design & Development

Once the direction feels right, we develop the full picture together. Your covered structures, kitchen zone, fire feature, lighting plan, and finish selections are shaped around your home, your yard, and the way your family plans to use this space. You’ll see the design take form before construction ever starts, so every decision feels like yours.

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Permitting & Preparation

We handle City of Loveland permit filings, HOA pre-approvals, trade scheduling, and material coordination, all the moving parts that need to line up before your project breaks ground. Our team sequences everything correctly the first time, so there are no avoidable delays and you always know where things stand.

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Construction

This is when the covered kitchen, fire feature, and evening lighting you’ve been picturing start to actually take shape. Our team manages every phase of construction and stays in close contact with you throughout. You’ll always know what’s happening, what’s coming next, and how your Loveland outdoor space is moving forward.

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Final Walk-Through

Before we call it finished, we walk through every corner of your new outdoor space together and look at the details up close. We answer your questions, take care of anything still needing attention, and make sure it’s truly ready for cool fall evenings around the fire and long summer nights with people you love.
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What Loveland Homeowners Actually Want From Their Outdoor Living Space

Outdoor Spaces Built for
the Way Loveland Families Live

Loveland homeowners want outdoor spaces that keep pace with how they actually live, close to the Poudre Canyon, Carter Lake, and Rocky Mountain National Park, with an outdoor lifestyle that doesn’t stop when the calendar flips. They want a covered kitchen for grilling into October, a fire feature that makes cool September evenings worth staying out for, and a structure that doesn’t flinch when a hailstorm rolls through. They need materials and engineering that hold up at 5,000 feet, through UV, freeze-thaw cycles, and wet snow loads, without becoming a weekend maintenance project. The best outdoor living spaces here bring multiple zones together: cooking, dining, gathering, and sheltered quiet, all connected and ready to use. Every detail should match the way your family lives in Loveland, not just the way people live somewhere with a gentler climate.

Cover, Warmth, Year-Round Comfort

More Seasons Spent Outside Together

Loveland's intense UV, afternoon wind, and shoulder-season snow loads can cut your time outside short before you're ready to go in. Covered structures, integrated heating, wind screening, and climate-considered design give you a backyard that stays genuinely usable from late February through November, not just the handful of perfect July afternoons.

Flow, Access, Indoor-Outdoor Living

A Backyard That Finally Fits

You want a backyard that connects naturally to the rooms you already spend time in, not a separate destination that takes effort to get to. Sliding doors that open onto a covered patio, consistent sightlines from your kitchen to your outdoor cooking zone, and intentional transitions make the outside feel like a real extension of your home.

Gathering, Cooking, Entertaining Outside

Room To Gather Around The Fire

For many Loveland families, the best evenings happen outside, around a fire, sharing a meal, with enough room for everyone to settle in. Covered dining areas, built-in seating, outdoor kitchens, and defined gathering zones make it easy to host, celebrate, and stay connected without anyone feeling squeezed out of the moment.

Privacy, Screening, Quiet Comfort

A Place To Breathe Together

Loveland's open lots and subdivision sightlines can make a backyard feel exposed, easy to see into and hard to truly relax in. Structural privacy walls, pergola screening, and coordinated landscaping can close off neighboring views while keeping the mountains and open sky right where they belong, giving you a space that feels genuinely yours.

Durability, Snow Loads, Low Maintenance

Built For Every Colorado Season

You want a space that holds up through a hailstorm in June, a hard freeze in October, and intense afternoon sun all summer long. Composite decking with lifetime warranties, frost-resistant pavers, and structures engineered for Colorado snow loads give you a finished space that stays solid and comfortable through everything Loveland's climate delivers.

What To Consider When Planning A Loveland Outdoor Living Space

Build for the Colorado Life
You Already Love

October evenings in Loveland still beg you to stay outside, if your space is built for it. Planning well means thinking past the warmest weeks of July and asking what it takes to actually use the yard in March, September, and every shoulder month in between. In Loveland, that also means being honest about hail, wet snow loads, UV exposure, and the west wind that makes an uncovered patio feel uninhabitable by late afternoon. Getting those details right early is the difference between a space your family uses constantly and one that sits empty nine months of the year.

How many months of the year do you actually want to use this space?

If your honest answer is ‘as many as possible,’ that changes almost every decision, from whether you need a covered structure to whether a gas fire feature belongs in the plan from the start. Loveland’s shoulder seasons are genuinely livable, but only if the space is designed for them. Think about the cool September evenings you’re outside right now, and ask whether your new outdoor space would work for those moments or require you to go inside the minute it gets interesting.
Is it the afternoon sun with no shade? The wind coming off the foothills? The sense that there’s nowhere comfortable to land, no defined spot to cook or gather or just sit? Naming the specific friction honestly matters more than picking features from a wish list. A lot of Loveland backyards feel like afterthoughts, not because the yard is small, but because nothing was ever designed to make it worth staying in. Understanding your own frustration is the clearest guide to what belongs in the next one.
At 5,000 feet, Colorado doesn’t forgive materials that weren’t chosen with the climate in mind, you’ve probably seen a neighbor’s deck go from nice to splintered in fewer years than expected. If you’re planning something that needs to last through freeze-thaw cycles, hail seasons, and Colorado UV without constant upkeep, that shapes what goes into the ground, the structure, and every surface. Thinking in decades rather than summers tends to lead to better decisions on everything from decking material to how a pergola is engineered.
The way a retired couple uses a backyard is genuinely different from how a family with teenagers does, and both are different from someone who works from home and wants a year-round indoor-outdoor connection. Before you start talking about finishes and features, it’s worth thinking about the specific people who’ll be in this space most often and what they’re actually doing out there. The best Loveland outdoor spaces aren’t designed around a catalog; they’re designed around a household.

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Words From Loveland Families
Who Live Outside Now

Every review here comes from a Loveland family who handed us their backyard and trusted us to get it right. You’ll hear about honest conversations, clear timelines, and spaces that hold up through a Colorado winter.
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Areas We Service Across Loveland, CO

Built for the Neighborhoods
Loveland Is Proud to Call Home

Loveland stretches from foothills-adjacent neighborhoods with mature yards and sloped lots all the way east to newer subdivisions where builder slabs are already feeling too small for how families actually live. Christie’s designs and builds outdoor living spaces across every corner of Loveland, accounting for the specific terrain, climate, and character each neighborhood brings to a project. Wherever you are in the city, your backyard deserves a space that holds up to Colorado’s seasons and feels completely like yours.

  • Centerra, Downtown Loveland, Alford Meadows, Boyd Lake Shores, Mariana Butte, Kintzley Estates, Eagle Brook Meadows, North Lake Estates, Boise Creek, Horseshoe Lake, The Lakes at Centerra, Cascade Estates
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Other Areas We Service

Weld County

Greeley, CO
Erie, CO
Fort Lupton, CO
Firestone, CO
Frederick, CO

Boulder County

Boulder, CO
Lafayette, CO
Longmont, CO
Louisville, CO

Adams County

Brighton, CO
Commerce City, CO
Northglenn, CO
Thornton, CO

Jefferson County

Arvada, CO
Westminster, CO

Broomfield County

Broomfield, CO

Larimer County

Windsor, CO

Loveland Outdoor Living Space Frequently Asked Questions

What Loveland Homeowners Want to Know
Before Building an Outdoor Living Space

If you’re thinking about an outdoor living project in Loveland, you probably have real questions, about how a covered structure holds up to a March snowstorm, whether composite decking is actually worth it at 5,000 feet, and what the permit process looks like from start to finish. These answers are written specifically for Loveland homeowners so you can walk into this decision feeling informed, confident, and genuinely excited about what’s coming.

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Is composite decking really worth the cost difference over pressure-treated wood in Loveland's climate?

For most Loveland homeowners, the answer is yes, and the climate is exactly why. Pressure-treated wood decks from the 1980s and 1990s are the most common trigger for calls we get: splintering boards, corroded fasteners, railings that no longer meet code. At 5,000 feet, you’re dealing with UV exposure that bleaches and degrades wood faster than lower-elevation markets, freeze-thaw cycling that opens and closes the grain every season, and occasional hail that accelerates surface wear. Premium composite decking, brands like TimberTech, Azek, or Fiberon, carries 25-year to lifetime warranties, won’t splinter, holds its color without annual sealing, and is engineered to handle the expansion and contraction that Colorado temperature swings demand. The maintenance difference alone, no yearly staining, no replacing boards every decade, is something Loveland homeowners feel clearly in year five and year ten.
From the time you sign off on a design, plan on 8 to 16 weeks to get through construction and reach your final walkthrough, and that window includes permit review, which is a fixed variable in Loveland you can’t shortcut. The City of Loveland Building Division runs 20 to 30 working days per review round, and if your subdivision has an HOA, material and design approval from the board needs to happen before a permit application is even filed. We sequence all of that as part of managing your project, it’s not something you’re left to navigate alone. Larger scopes with a four-season room addition or multi-level configuration run toward the longer end of that range. We’ll give you a realistic timeline during the design phase so there are no surprises when you’re planning around the season you want to use the space.
A three-season room is typically screened or fitted with non-insulated glass panels, comfortable from late spring through early fall, but genuinely cold through Loveland’s winters and shoulder-season nights. A four-season room is a climate-controlled enclosure: thermally broken glazing, insulated walls and ceiling, a dedicated heating source, and integrated lighting. It functions as real square footage year-round, not just when the weather cooperates. For Loveland homeowners who work from home or want a genuine indoor-outdoor connection through February and March, the four-season build is the one that actually gets used across the full calendar. If your goal is 10 to 11 months of real use rather than 4, the four-season design is worth the conversation, and the investment reflects that.
If your home is in a newer Loveland subdivision with an active HOA, yes, and the sequencing matters. HOA approval typically needs to come before you file a permit application, not after. That means getting your design, materials, and structure height reviewed and approved by the HOA board first, then moving to the City of Loveland Building Division for permitting. Skipping this order can create delays or require redesigns mid-process. We manage this sequence as a standard part of project planning, we know what HOA boards in Loveland typically flag (structure height, material colors, sight-line impact) and we design ahead of those conversations. Older in-town neighborhoods without HOA coverage go straight to permit filing, but we confirm jurisdiction and overlay requirements for every project before we start the clock.
They need to be, and not every pergola on the market is. Loveland sits at roughly 5,000 feet elevation, and Colorado’s Front Range ground snow loads are a real structural variable, wet spring snow in particular is heavy and accumulates quickly on horizontal surfaces. A pergola or patio cover specified for a lower-elevation or warmer market can fail under that load, and we’ve heard from homeowners who’ve had exactly that experience with a previous installation. Every covered structure we design and build for Loveland is specified for local snow load requirements, that’s a structural engineering call, not a marketing distinction. You shouldn’t have to stress about clearing your pergola after every March storm. The right structure handles it.
Coverage is the starting point. An outdoor kitchen without a structure above it in Northern Colorado is difficult to use, hail damages stone countertops and tile, afternoon sun makes cooking uncomfortable, and late-fall access through snow becomes a real friction point. At our tier, the kitchen zone is always positioned under the covered structure, not as an afterthought but as a deliberate design decision. For materials, that means stone or porcelain countertop surfaces rated for freeze-thaw cycling, stainless or powder-coated components that won’t corrode through seasonal swings, and grout selections that hold through the thermal expansion cycles Loveland sees each year. Gas connections are handled by licensed trades and included in your project scope, outdoor kitchens at this level are wired and plumbed to code, not cobbled together with extension cords and propane tanks.
Because open subdivision lots with west-facing exposure are genuinely uncomfortable without them. Loveland’s prevailing winds come from the west and northwest, and on an unscreened patio, that wind makes the space hard to enjoy through a significant part of the year, even on days when the temperature is perfect. Combine that with the open sight lines common to newer subdivisions, where neighboring yards are fully visible, and you have a space people avoid rather than use. Privacy and wind screening aren’t decorative choices here, they’re functional. We design structural privacy walls integrated into the deck framing, pergola side panels, and strategic plantings coordinated with the hardscape. When those elements are in place, the space transforms. People actually use it. That’s the whole point.
It’s one of the most consistently noticed and requested features, and it directly extends how many hours and months you actually spend outside. Once the sun drops in Loveland, an unlit outdoor space is done for the evening. Integrated LED lighting in pergola beams, recessed soffit lights under the covered area, low-voltage step and pathway lighting, and feature lighting on the fire element or kitchen zone make the space genuinely usable through fall and into the shoulder-season evenings that are some of the best nights Colorado offers. Homeowners tell us they notice it at a neighbor’s place first, the way a well-lit outdoor room glows after dark, and then they want it. It’s not a luxury finish here. It’s what makes the investment pay off across more of the year.

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Your Backyard Deserves More
Than Colorado's Short Summers

Your outdoor space in Loveland should work as hard as you do, through cool September evenings, the first warm days of April, and every month in between when the Rockies are calling and you’d rather stay close to home. Whether you’re picturing a covered kitchen for fall entertaining, a fire feature that takes the edge off a chilly night, or a four-season room that finally connects your inside and outside, it starts with a conversation. Tell us how you want to live out there, and we’ll build it to last in Colorado’s climate.
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From The Blog

Ideas for
Your Loveland Outdoor Life

Our blog covers the real questions Loveland homeowners ask about outdoor living, from choosing composite decking that holds up through Front Range hail and freeze-thaw cycles to understanding what a covered kitchen or four-season room actually adds to your life across ten months of Colorado weather.