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Kitchen Design-Build Remodeling in East Cobb, Roswell & Sandy Springs, GA

Beautiful, Functional Kitchens—Designed + Built for the Way You Live

At GreatHouse Design-Build, we specialize in transforming outdated kitchens into stunning, high-performance spaces tailored to your lifestyle. Whether you want to open up your layout, add smart storage, or elevate your home’s style, our expert design-build team is here to guide you from concept to completion.

Why Remodel Your Kitchen?

The kitchen is the centerpiece of your home, and one of the most valuable spaces to upgrade. A thoughtful remodel can:

  • Improve the layout and daily function
  • Increase storage and organization
  • Add long-term home value
  • Reflect your style

From removing walls to reworking cabinetry, we help homeowners across East Cobb, Roswell, and Sandy Springs create kitchens that inspire GreatLiving— life-changing, lasting enjoyment of your home.

 

Kitchen Design-Build Remodeling in East Cobb, Roswell & Sandy Springs, GA


 

Our Kitchen Design-Build Process

As a full-service design-build firm, we simplify your kitchen renovation with a single, streamlined team, handling everything from permitting and space planning to final finishes.

Here’s how we make it easier:

  • The Design-Build Difference
    With all parties under one roof, we design with your overall budget in mind, getting to a final, buildable design faster and with fewer revisions prior to contract.
  • Custom Kitchen Design
    We reimagine your layout to improve flow, add storage, and create a space that works for how you live, cook, and entertain. We aren’t just experts in interior design – our team has decades of experience tackling the most technical of structural challenges, and we have strong partnerships with engineers whom we engage in the design process when needed. This means that we come up with creative solutions that others may not see or think possible.
  • Expertly Curated Finishes
    Our interior design team brings decades of experience designing spaces that feel like they were there from the beginning while also matching your style and needs. Our highly custom approach to finishes, from cabinet door styles and wood species to grout colors and custom tile patterns, ensures that your finished space feels as beautiful as it is functional. We order all materials as soon as your construction agreement is signed. This ensures everything is ready before the demo begins, helping to avoid delays from backordered items. Our Procurement Manager proactively solves supply chain issues to keep your project moving.
  • Fixed-Price Contracting
    With fixed-price contracts, there are no surprises during construction. We work within your budget to maximize value. Our interior designers guide selections to create custom spaces while prioritizing smart spending.
  • Ongoing Communication
    We keep you informed every step of the way. Using our construction management platform, JobTread, you can message our team, track progress with daily photo updates, and access all documents, selections, and invoices in one place.

Kitchens That Blend Style, Function & Lasting Quality

Whether you’re dreaming of a sleek modern kitchen, a warm transitional space, or a classic Southern style, we’ll help bring it to life. Our team balances trend-forward design with durable materials and lasting craftsmanship—because a great kitchen should not only look amazing but also perform beautifully for years to come.

We proudly serve homeowners in:

  • East Cobb, GA
  • Roswell, GA
  • Sandy Springs, GA

Let’s Get Started On Your Kitchen Design-Build Project!

If your kitchen no longer fits your needs or style, a custom design-build remodel may be the answer. GreatHouse Design-Build delivers kitchens that are tailored, timeless, and built to enhance everyday living.

We proudly serve homeowners in East Cobb, Roswell, and Sandy Springs.

4 Upgrades for Your Covered Patio

The covered patio sits outside your daylight basement. It doesn’t have its own roof – it has a first-floor addition, or a porch, above it. So, lots of shade, lots of posts (holding up the addition). Depending upon the orientation of your house and side yard, you might get a great breeze through here. In a rainstorm, it will be dry and cozy. In the heat of summer, it will be cool.

So, what’s possible here?

1. Dress Those Posts

Whether the support posts are steel or treated timbers (4×4, 4×6, or 6×6), giving them a finish dress will both add character and visually link your patio to the house. A simple paint job can suffice, to match the house trim. But consider bolstering the columns themselves – adding trim boards to a 4×4 to give it a 6×6 girth. While the structural support is the same, the posts will look and feel more massive, reassuring, and cozy for the space underneath. A larger post, in turn, will better facilitate trim and molding accents, and creates a larger surface area for paint or stain, which increases their impact. Posts can also be clad with wraparound vinyl sections, for a weatherproof solid color.

Another route is to add stacked stone piers beneath the posts. This works well when the patio itself is stone; with a poured concrete patio, it may be a jarring contrast. Stone piers give powerful visual grounding to the posts, but their dimensions should be in proportion to the post size – a 12” pier for a 4×4 can actually make the post look spindly. Low piers are good for a view down a sloping back yard. Higher piers create strong harmony with the house if they align with the foundation height or basement window sills.

Black steel hardware (or strapping) add a rustic look – the bigger the better, if you have columns – and visually tie the posts to the addition. You can find great examples on gazebos and pergolas; look for the contrast between the rich wood color and the flat black metal.

2. Treat the Ceiling

While an addition above your patio will likely have an enclosed and insulated ceiling, decks are typically open joists. This makes it easy to run additional wiring (see #4), but since rain, snow, and accidents will drip through the decking, a below-deck roof system may be ideal.

Even if your addition does have an enclosed underside, give it a high end finish by installing a beaded board or tongue and groove planks, painted to match or complement the house paint.

Add an arch to the span between posts. This will work particularly well if the posts are finished out as columns, since the arch will add a thicker top lintel – again, 4x4s can look weak with a heavy crossbeam across the top.

3. Not Wide Open

Adding a screen to the side of your patio adds privacy, a noise barrier, and a bit of coziness. While the simplest way to go is with lattice, it is also the flimsiest and least attractive, whether it’s made of vinyl or pressure-treated slats. It also warps easily, and its 45-degree lines rarely complement the other lines of your house.

Horizontal planks, with a half-inch gap, will allow some air circulation, and, like clothing, creates a sense of width, stability, and strength. This screen layout reinforces your house’s strong horizontals (such as in the siding or bricks). Vertical planks, in turn, create a thinner, more elegant, and lighter feel, and will add some visual cleanliness to a house faced with irregularly-set stone or cedar shakes (remember those?).

A living evergreen screen, with shrubs or dwarf trees, is excellent for both air circulation and noise reduction (and sound), and has a soft visual profile to contrast with the edges and lines of your house. However, it installs small and takes time to grow into an actual screen, so requires patience unless you can afford to start off with large plantings. Managing drainage becomes crucial, to make sure the screen is well-fed during hot Atlanta summers.

4. Creature Comforts

A covered patio’s shelter from direct sun and weather make it well-suited to other functionality, and longer-lasting components.

Running electrical through the patio ceiling facilitates lots of basic comforts – ceiling fans, lighting, receptacles for projectors, wall-mounted TVs, and speakers.  The higher the ceiling, the better, since anything hanging down adds visual clutter, detracting from the view.

Eat! This can be as simple as a table and chairs, or high bar and stools, plus your grill and a staging area with fridge, utensil drawers, dishware, and prep sink. Put the grill near the patio edge, so its fumes slip up and out rather than permeating the patio and your basement. Or, go for a full outdoor fireplace and cooking island, only five steps away from the patio. And there’s probably room, somewhere, for a built-in snowcone machine, popsicle freezer, and cake-pop cooler!

Drink! How about an outdoor bar? Maybe it’s just at the end of your cooking area, sharing the countertop, but with its own fridge, beer cooler, and icemaker.

Merriment! Flatscreens? Foosball? Table tennis? Darts? Hottub? A firepit (out from under the roof, of course) for late night friendly debate and conversation? Slip and slide from the patio edge down the back lawn? Boardgaming table with strong task lights? Your patio is just another room of your house!

Patios are great! Give yours some love and accessories! What do you need after a long week at work, or a long day with children, or a long time cooped up indoors? In quiet or merriment, in solitude or with company, with simplicity or a full complement of furnishings and features, your patio has awesome potential!

Let’s Talk About Your Remodeling Project!