Patios Clotures

Montreal summers are an ideal time to take advantage of the warm, sunny weather on your patio or deck. It is also the perfect time to cook outside. Who doesn’t love the smell of a barbeque, enjoying time spent with friends and family around a great meal served on a deck designed to cook?

When planning your deck design, make sure that you place the outdoor kitchen at the heart of your new deck or patio. There are many things to take into consideration when planning an outdoor kitchen. For example:

• What will you use to cook outside?
Many people cook with a simple barbeque. Depending on the space available on your deck or patio, you should design a space on your deck to hold your barbeque. A barbeque can take up a lot of space and get in the way.

You could also think about going beyond the simple barbeque on wheels, and integrate a full cooking space into your deck design. An integrated outdoor stove/barbeque, equipped for cooking meats but also for a whole range of other ingredients is a big investment, but it pays for itself in both usefulness, and will impress your friends and family.

• How many guests do you think you will have on average?
Depending on how many guests you are expecting to have for any given event, you’ll want to design your deck to maximise the space available for hosting. Think about where you will place tables and chairs and other accessories.

If you plan on hosting a lot of events, you might want to add a bar into your deck design. A patio bar is a great way to maximise the use of your space (people stand rather than sit when they are at a bar), and it is also a great way to add a special touch to you deck design.

• Is your deck easily accessible?
How accessible is your deck from your home? Is it close to the kitchen? In cities, roof-top decks are often the only option for building an outdoor living space, but are not as easy to get to as the traditional outside deck.

Plan your deck design keeping in mind accessibility and distance from the kitchen. You might want to add a space for an outdoor fridge, to avoid having to travel back and forth, or storage space for your cooking needs.

Outdoor cooking is the best way to host summer events in Montreal. Make sure that