Achieving a Year Round Backyard - Dektex

It’s Getting Hot Out Here: Achieving a Year Round Backyard

It’s that leaf raking, football watching, doggy sweater wearing, pumpkin spicing time of year, and with it comes a word we haven’t uttered in months: “Brrrr.” While the temps can feel like a pause on outdoor life, it needn’t be with patio upgrades that suit your

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Indoor Living - Dektex

Indoor Living…Outside

As transitional temperatures approach, with chilly nights and comfortable days, the mourning of summer weather past is creeping in. The urge to flip the sign to “Closed” on our yards comes sooner than we’d like, simply because it hasn’t been designed for use over a maximum

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Putting Your Stamp on Outdoor Flooring - Dektex (2)

Putting Your Stamp on Outdoor Flooring

With a catchy name like DekTex, it is often assumed our entire sales portfolio is built around decking and decking only. In fact a large part of our day-to-day design and installation also involves custom hardscaping, such as patio flooring, garden paths, and decorative walkways. Not

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Outdoor Design for Smaller Spaces - Dektex

Thinking Big in Micro-Yards: Outdoor Design for Smaller Spaces

For many reasons your backyard might not be the most spacious, perhaps because it is situated on a city lot, in a vintage community with diminutive layouts, or simply because your chosen landscaping dominates the square footage. At DekTex we don’t see these factors as a

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Saving Your Trees During Construction - Dektex

Let Them Live! Saving Your Trees During Construction

We are fast approaching Earth Day, and in spirit we are excited to talk Trees. Specifically, your trees, the ones you have come to love after many years of cultivation, after having carefully planned their placement for maximum beauty, shade, and wildlife habitat. Knowing a new deck will

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Upgrade with a Pergola - Dektex

Looking Up: Update and Upgrade with a Pergola

Your patio isn’t simply a backyard addendum, it’s supplemental living space. The family pet practically lives there, a glass of wine by the firepit beats a fireplace every time, and your kids would rather take lunch outside over the formal dining room any day of the week.

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Three Ways to Enrich Your Outdoor Space - Dektex

Guided by the Light: Three Ways to Enrich Your Outdoor Space

Living in the Midwest, we all can agree we are rewarded for our punishing winters with perfect summers. We are graced with the longest, most sunshiny days, under ideal temperatures, and if we are so fortunate, on a deck built to entertain. However our covenant for

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Ask the Expert - Dektex

Ask the Expert! Your Burning Questions Answered

Bringing in outside expertise for home improvements is bound to come with questions and doubts, fears and uncertainty. We compiled all of your most frequently asked questions and went right to the source, straight to your DEKTEX advocate and designer, Olivia. Allow her to set your

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Helical Piles - Dektex

Helical Piles: A Helluva Solution

We typically think of spring and summer as peak season for outdoor space improvements. Many of our clients can sometimes feel inspired to move forward with projects given the brutal conditions we face in the Midwest. But progressing with your new decking during fall, and even

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Backyard Trends Dektex 1 | DekTex

Top 5 Backyard Trends for 2021

What a grand escape our backyard space can be, with greater options than ever with which to fantasize and customize. Creating an enclave free from the burdens of the world is always the goal, but the following trends are dominating conversations with the DekTex design team,

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