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Extending Your Outdoor Living Space

Smart ways to turn a small patio or deck into a true second living room.

You don't always need to build out to gain living space. Sometimes you just need to make the space you have work harder. A retractable awning is one of the simplest ways to do exactly that.

More hours in the day

Without shade, a patio is only comfortable early and late. An awning opens up the hot middle of the day, so the space is usable from breakfast to sunset.

More of the year

In Florida, the issue is rarely cold, it's sun and sudden rain. An awning handles both, extending your outdoor season across more of the calendar.

A natural extension of the indoors

Position an awning off a back door or sliding glass wall and the patio becomes a continuation of your living room or kitchen. The line between inside and outside blurs, and the whole home feels bigger.

Far less than an addition

A room addition is a major project. A retractable awning gives you much of the same gain, usable, comfortable square footage, for a small fraction of the cost and disruption.

Built to fit your space

Every Sunbird awning is custom-sized to your patio, so it extends your space cleanly with no awkward gaps. We measure, you choose the fabric and operation, and we install.

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