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A measured plan belongs on floor plan. This page needs the terrace you already have.
Design Style
On grade or platform
Terrace Pieces
Threshold, shade, and the edge
Shade
Seats
Edge
Additional Information (Optional)
What the terrace must keep
Keep the threshold
The first step out of the house stays clear
Keep the outer edge
The step, wall, or rim stays where it is
Keep the level change
The step down or up stays readable
Shade
On grade
A terrace sits on grade or on a platform, not on a railed slab hung off an upper floor. The threshold at the house door stays. The outer edge stays. Shade is what makes it a room at noon. The level change, a step down to the yard or up onto the platform, stays a step.
Door, shade, then the step where the terrace ends.
The threshold, the edge, the shade, the table, the platform, the room that is not a balcony, and a second finish each need a picture. Drop a file into the matching slot and the block fills.
Furniture starts after the threshold, not on the sill.
The lawn is not drawn flush. The level change stays visible.
A roof, a pergola, or the tree already there covers the sitting place.
The table sits in shade and stops before the outer step.
The step up remains readable. This is not an upper balcony.
Depth here is a room at the door, not one chair against an upper rail.
Try other chairs without covering the threshold or hiding the step.
Threshold
The terrace begins at a threshold: a sill, a French door, or a single step out of the kitchen or living room. Furniture does not sit on that step. People have to cross it with their hands full. A balcony door onto a shallow rail is a different page.
Edge and level
The edge is a step down to the yard, a low wall, or the rim of the platform. It is not a railing over a street the way an upper balcony is. If the terrace is raised, the level change stays visible. Do not draw the lawn up flush to hide it.
Shade
An outdoor room without shade is a slab. Name the cover that already exists, or the one you are willing to add: a roof off the house, a pergola, or the tree in the photograph. Seats go in that shade, not in the open middle with nowhere to move at midday.
The terrace meets the ground or sits as a platform. It is not an upper-floor balcony.
The door and the first step out of the house stay clear of tables and chairs.
The outer limit stays a step, a low wall, or the platform rim, not a guard rail over a drop.
A roof, a pergola, or an existing tree is named. Seating is placed in that shade.
A step down to the yard or up onto the platform remains a step people can see.
Depth here is a room, not one chair against a rail. Pots may join the seats; they are not the whole brief.
Include the threshold, the terrace floor, the outer edge, and any step down to the yard.
Say whether cover is a roof, a pergola, or a tree, and whether the terrace is on grade or a platform.
If a chair sits on the threshold, or the step to the yard disappears, the terrace was ignored.
A balcony is a railed upper slab. A deck is a board structure. The yard starts where this terrace steps down.
At the threshold
A terrace is an outdoor room attached to the house, at the level of the door or one step down. Furniture, shade, and the floor finish can change. The threshold, the edge, and any level change stay. It is not a balcony in the air, and it is not a deck with a rail and a stair calculated to the door height. Those have their own pages.
Count the people who sit here and the hour of sun. Shade is a structure or a tree you already have, not a roof drawn over the whole garden. Leave the path back into the house clearer than the path to the best view.
If the question is the planting beyond the paving, open the garden. If the question is the slope of the whole rear yard, open the backyard. The terrace stops at its edge.
You should be able to step out without a stair you do not have. The door height is the datum.
Name where the terrace ends: a step, a bed, a low wall. Do not let furniture drift into the lawn.
Noon sun decides the seat. A styled pergola that misses the table is scenery.
Seats you cannot pull out are not seats, outdoors or in.
The links below are the neighboring jobs. Each one keeps a promise this page does not make.
A threshold, an outer edge, and shade that makes the ground an outdoor room.
No. A balcony is a shallow railed slab off an upper floor, planned on the balcony page. A terrace is on grade or a platform, with a threshold and an edge you step off.
Not on the threshold. Leave the sill and the first step clear. Seats begin after that crossing.
Keep the level change you have. A guard at a real drop can stay, but the room is still a platform on the ground side of the house, not an upper-floor balcony.
Name one: a roof off the house, a pergola, or a tree you are willing to keep. Without shade, do not pretend the open slab is a room at noon.
No. The level change stays readable. People need to see the step down to the yard or up onto the platform.
Use the patio page for a broad outdoor floor that is not asked to be a room at the door. Use the deck page when the boards and the structure are the subject. This page is the outdoor room at the threshold.
Yes. The photograph supplies the door, the outer edge, and the level change. The plan does not turn that ground into an upper-floor balcony.
One view from the threshold to the level change is enough. Name the shade before you name the chairs.