Custom Patio Covers + Extensions
Custom patio covers and covered outdoor living spaces designed around your home, your property, and how you want to use the space.
Patio Cover Overview
Most uncovered patios sit empty through the hottest and wettest parts of the year. A well-designed cover changes the math — turning square footage you already own into space that works every day.
Structure Types
Roof + Ceiling Design
Two covers with the same footprint can feel completely different. Roof style, ceiling treatment, beam work and column proportion decide whether the finished space feels architectural — or like an afterthought. The right answer depends on the architecture and engineering of your existing home, which is why we design to the house rather than selling a single system.
Vaulted ceiling, exposed beams
Finished ceiling, integrated screen housing
Existing Home Integration
A patio cover isn't simply attached wherever there is room. Before we draw anything, we study the conditions that determine whether a new structure will look and perform like it was part of the original home.
Patio Extensions
Many projects start with a patio that's simply too small — a builder-grade slab that can't hold the way you want to live. Extensions enlarge the footprint and rework the layout so the old and new read as one intentional space.
Integrated Features
Planning these features before construction allows electrical, gas, structure, drainage, openings and finishes to work together — instead of being added later at a premium, with compromises.
Designed as one environment.
Screens + Climate Comfort
An open patio gives you a few good weeks. A covered space with the right comfort features works through Texas summers and cool Hill Country evenings — which is the entire point of building it.
Where screens make sense, we integrate MagnaTrack retractable screens during design — so housings, columns and openings are planned together, not retrofitted.
Motorized screens that retract out of sight when you want the space fully open, with tracks and housings planned into the structure during design.
Custom fixed-screen patio enclosures designed to create comfortable, protected outdoor living spaces.
Fixed Screen Enclosures
Fixed screen enclosures are a different approach from MagnaTrack retractable screens. Instead of screens that disappear into the structure, the openings are permanently framed and screened — creating a protected room you can furnish and use without insects, with the framing, ceiling and floor finished as part of the build.
Poolside Patio Covers
A poolside structure lives or dies on placement. We plan around how people actually move between the water, the shade, the grill and the house.
Design + Engineering + Permitting
Depending on the project, we coordinate the technical and administrative work that makes a covered structure possible — so you’re managing one conversation, not nine.
Patio Cover Project Gallery
Real TWT projects across Greater Austin & surrounding areas — attached covers, freestanding pavilions, kitchens, fireplaces, screens and finished ceilings. Explore more of our work.
Real Project Spotlight
A custom covered-living project designed around the pool — a vaulted covered structure with an outdoor kitchen, a comfortable gathering area and integrated screens, planned so the space stays usable through the seasons rather than sitting unused half the year.
Covered living structure
Outdoor kitchen
MagnaTrack retractable screens
Common Patio Cover Questions
Specific answers about structures, attachments, features and process. Anything else — call us at (512) 878-3892.
In many cases, yes. Whether and how a structure attaches depends on your roofline, fascia and soffit conditions, structural requirements and your goals — which is exactly what we evaluate during the first visit.
Yes, when site conditions and structural requirements allow. We design the extension to integrate with both the existing cover and the architecture of the home so old and new read as one.
We study roof pitch, height, exterior materials, proportions and sightlines before designing. The goal is a structure that looks like it was drawn with the original home, not attached to it.
Often, yes — if the existing slab is in suitable condition and structurally appropriate for the new structure. We evaluate that on-site before recommending an approach.
Yes. Expanding the slab, adding decorative concrete finishes and connecting old and new surfaces are common parts of patio extension projects.
Yes. Kitchens are one of the most common integrated features. Planning them before construction lets gas, electrical, drainage and ventilation work with the structure instead of against it.
Yes, where the design and engineering support it. Fireplaces and fire features are planned as part of the structure — including clearances, structure and finishes.
Yes. Where appropriate, we integrate MagnaTrack retractable screens during design so housings, columns and openings are planned together cleanly.
Yes. Pool relationships, circulation, sightlines and wet/dry transitions are considered during design so the structure works with the way you use the pool and yard.
Requirements vary by project, municipality and neighborhood. As part of qualifying design-build projects, we determine what applies to your project and coordinate the permitting process.
Yes. Where structural engineering is required, we coordinate it as part of the project — along with CAD drawings and the documentation permitting and HOA review may require.
Yes. Where a neighborhood requires architectural review, we prepare and coordinate the drawings and information needed for submission.
Yes. Design is the first phase of our process, and for appropriate projects we develop 3D visualizations so you can see the space before committing to construction.
Field-tested judgment on structure, drainage, permitting and the details that age well.
Design, engineering, permitting and construction coordinated by one team.
Owners involved in the work, building where we live.
Know what’s happening, what’s next, and who is responsible — without having to ask.
Tell us what you want the space to do. We’ll help you think through the structure, layout and features that make sense for your home.
