Pleasant Grove & Cedar HillS Designs For Outdoor Living Built Around The View
Custom Outdoor Living Spaces For The Eastern Bench Lifestyle
Archadeck Outdoor Living knows what draws people to Pleasant Grove & Cedar Hills in the first place: the quiet, the mountains right there at eye level, and a pace of life that's a step slower than the busier cities down the hill. Our job is to design a backyard that lives up to all three.
You already have the view. What most homes here are missing is a reason to sit in it, coffee in hand, before the day gets going. Most of our projects in this area start from that same problem, honestly, more than a client walking in with a Pinterest board.
This is a smaller community, further back from the main roads, and it shows in what people ask for. We get a lot of requests for a deck, patio, and covered porch that all work together instead of feeling like three separate add-ons tacked onto the house over the years. Nobody wants a deck that's only for company and a patio that's for everything else. People want one space out back that just flexes depending on the day.
We start with a free design consultation. We'll walk the property together, look at the grade, and talk through how to work with the view instead of around it.
A Backyard Built For Daily Life, Not Just Special Occasions
Archadeck's been building outdoor living spaces for over 40 years now. You can tell in the small stuff, honestly, more than the big stuff: where a step lands, which way a railing should angle so it doesn't block the view, which direction a porch needs to face so you're not losing the evening light. That's the process we bring to Pleasant Grove & Cedar Hills projects too, just adjusted to your home and how your family realistically lives in it.
For a lot of homeowners on the bench, that means a patio, or a deck-and-patio combination, positioned to take in the panorama of Utah Valley below. Some use it for morning coffee. Some take work calls out there. A few just like having somewhere to escape the noise of the house for twenty minutes. However you'd use it, a patio here tends to become one of the most-used rooms in the house, even though it's technically outside.
A Cedar Hill Deck Built To Take Advantage Of The View
A deck does what a patio can't: it gets you up and off the ground, which on a lot with a view like this one, matters more than you'd think.
Some homes here are a natural fit for a single elevated deck off the kitchen. Others, especially the steeper lots, do better with a multi-level design that steps down with the slope instead of fighting it. Whichever route makes sense for your yard, we're building toward the same thing: a clear shot over the valley from a structure that isn't going anywhere for a long time.
For families with kids, a deck also just means more outdoor time and less screen time, at least for a while. And with the mountains as a backdrop, it doesn't take much for a deck to become the setting for whatever backyard adventure the kids dream up next.
For everyone else, it's a place for dinner outside, a spot for board games with the neighbors, or just somewhere to watch the sun drop behind the Wasatch. We start every project by walking the lot, checking the grade, the sun exposure, the orientation, and using that to figure out what materials and layout will hold up here, not just look good on day one.
A well-built deck isn't just square footage. It's the difference between a house you live in and a house you enjoy.
What Building A Deck In This Climate Actually Requires
Cedar Hills sits higher than a lot of the valley, and you feel it in the swings. Hot, dry summers, then nights that cool off fast, then winters that pile up more snow than folks down in Provo or Orem ever deal with. That snow load must shape the design itself, not just which decking product you pick.
We lean on composite decking, treated wood, and weather-resistant finishes most often up here. None of them require you to spend your first warm Saturday of the year sanding and re-staining before you can use the thing.
Snow shedding matters here more than people expect. Railing placement, board spacing, even the pitch of an attached roof, all of it affects how usable your deck is in January versus how it looks in a brochure photo. We design for the whole year, not just June through August.
Porches Are Worth Considering, Too
A covered or screened porch solves a problem decks and patios can't: what to do when the weather isn't cooperating, but you still want to be outside.
Material choice matters even more on a porch, given how much Utah's weather can shift from one week to the next. We work with TimberTech and its sister brand AZEK, both trusted partners of ours, for a reason: their composite and PVC vinyl products don't have seams that moisture can work its way into over time, which is where most porch problems start.
They also look like natural wood, board for board, without the upkeep that comes with it.
Let's Talk About Your Backyard
The first step is a design consultation, and it's free, no catch, no pressure.
Call us at (385) 448-4255, or click here to get started, and we'll set up a time to walk your property together.
