A roof changes how much you use the backyard.
Marine is small-town Madison County at its best - village lots in the core and wide-open acreage past the edge of town, all a short drive from our Edwardsville shop. A pergola or covered patio roughly doubles the evenings a Marine backyard actually gets used - shade in July, cover in a pop-up storm, and a defined room that makes furniture, lighting and a fan possible.
We build across all of Marine - village-core homes, properties along Route 4, and farmsteads and acreage running east toward Alhambra. Every structure is engineered to match the house: roof pitch and shingles carried over on covered patios, cedar sized generously on pergolas, posts on concrete footings poured below the Madison County frost line - never deck blocks.
The most requested Marine build we quote is a gable-roof covered patio with a ceiling fan and lighting, tied visually into the home’s roofline.