Design Detail 5: Custom Built-In Seating

>> Sorry. >> The final design detail here that's my favorite is this custom couch that we built. Custom cushions. Catherine's right there. She'll yell at me if I don't say. She sewed the cushion covers totally custom. So, we got the foam, made the cushion covers. Uh, it's all Sumbrella material. We built the entire uh structure of the couch out of pro and decorators. So, my favorite thing about this is it's built exactly for this space. So, we can maximize every square inch of function here and provide seating for way more people. If we were to just have this deck space and then try to find a couch that fits, we'd get kind of close, but you're not going to get that maximum functionality that we've got here by building it to the exact specifications. So, it turned out amazing. It's super comfortable. We've got a nice low seat. It's very deep, so you can kind of sit back and lounge in it. We've got a slight recline on the back, so it's built like a couch. A lot of times I see people build benches into decks that aren't built like furniture. They're not comfortable. If you're going to build something like this, make sure that you reference a couch that's in your house that you find really comfortable and mimic those dimensions. So, that's what we did here. And it provides seating for at least eight people. Super comfortable, built in. It's not going to slide around. Uh, and especially with the custom cushions, they span the whole thing. So you're not going to have that problem of the cushions sliding off, the back rest moving all over. It just really anchors this whole space and it provides the centerpiece for the whole backyard. People are going to sit here, watch a movie, watch a sports game, sit here. We've got the bar right behind it and it's just a perfect outdoor living room and I think it's the final touch that this space needed to get maximum function out of it and look amazing. So that's about it for this project. Uh, it was one that I'm really proud of. Uh, I love the design that we came up with.