If you open up an Excel spreadsheet right now, you can put a dollar figure on a porch. Add up the materials, labor, permit, and design costs. Write it all down, do a =SUM() formula, and you’ll have a number at the bottom of the page. Your Ankeny porch builder can tell you exactly what it’s going to cost.
But the number can’t tell you what it’s worth.
No file ending in .xlsx can tell you how it will feel to go outside on the first Tuesday evening in June with a glass of something cold after a long day of work. Even with a lot of tabs, you can’t quantify how it’ll feel when the sun goes over the horizon in Ankeny, and you’re finally able to sit outside and enjoy it. And it can’t tell you what it will be like to have your whole family over for the Fourth of July.
Ankeny Porch Contractors Build More Than Structures
Ankeny porch contractors build plenty of porches. But the best porch builders understand that what they're building isn't merely lumber and composite. It's a place where life happens outside.
Imagine Saturday morning, early. Coffee and bare feet on the porch floor, the neighborhood still asleep. Your phone is inside and you haven’t noticed yet. That’s worth something. It’s not something you can quantify, but you know it when you feel it.
Or the other end of the day. Burgers on the grill. The kids chasing each other across the yard. Your brother-in-law telling a story he's told four times before and everybody laughing anyway. The porch is full, and there's nowhere else anyone would rather be.
A screened porch takes this idea even further by taking the mosquitoes out of the equation. The breeze comes through, the screens keep everything else out, and the evening stretches an hour longer than it would have otherwise.
The Ankeny Outdoor Living Contractors Who Get This Right
Harold Cross at Archadeck of Central Iowa likes to say: Go outside and play. Which sounds simple, of course, but it touches on something that’s easy to forget at times.
People don’t build porches merely because they need square footage. They build them because they want a place where the good moments can happen. They want to have birthday celebrations outside when the weather cooperates. They want a cookout where the cousins are all in one spot for the first time in two years. They want a Sunday where nobody has anywhere to be, and the porch is where everyone ends up anyway.
An Ankeny outdoor living contractor who designs around those moments builds something that lasts longer than the materials. The composite will last more than twenty-five years. The memories will last much longer.
Harold's team designs porches that belong to the house and to the family in it. We’re out to make places where life can unfold a little better because someone asked, “What do you plan to do with the space?” before ever picking up a hammer.
Let’s Build Something Beautiful, Together
Here's what we know. The families who build with us talk about the night they had everyone over for the Fourth. The morning routine has changed because now there's somewhere to sit with coffee before the house wakes up. The way their kids ask to eat on the porch every single night from May through September.
It’s nice to build a little oasis, a personal something special that invests in your quality of life.
It would be our distinct pleasure to meet with you for a complimentary design consultation. Call Harold Cross and his team at (515) 203-8734, or
contact us using our online form.
