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By Radu Oprea, CEO of Wolf Spirit Deck. Your outdoor area is not just a place where you walk in summer time to be outdoor. Nowadays people transform it in ways like never before. It becomes an extension of your home. New add-ons like motorized louvered roofs, motorized solar shades, heaters, fans, LED lights, acrylic covers, and more stuff like that made it possible to make your outdoor area into a room that can be used to enjoy all four seasons of the year. As a deck builder with over 10 years of experience in the Naperville, IL area, I’ve seen different types of designs and ideas on how homeowners here like to arrange their […]

By Radu Oprea, CEO at Wolf Spirit Deck As the founder of Wolf Spirit Deck building company in Naperville, IL who has spent over 10 years building decks in Naperville, IL area, I had plenty of opportunities to see how the humid climate can affect our outdoor spaces. Summers are hot and sticky, and winters are cold and snowy, all these seasons have a big impact in the way we build decks here, and on the overall lifespan of all our outdoor living spaces that we work on. In this post I did my best to describe the challenges we have with the humid climate and how we were able to adapt to it and […]

By Radu Oprea, Founder of Wolf Spirit Deck With over a century of collective experience building decks throughout Naperville and the Chicago suburbs, we’ve heard one question more than any other. Homeowners look out at their yard and wonder: ‘Do we screen it in, or keep it open?’ The truth is, both options are excellent—but for entirely different reasons. This decision isn’t about following the latest design trends; it’s about how you specifically use your outdoor space in the Chicagoland climate. Let’s look at the practical realities of both, based on what we see every day in the field. Open Decks: The Classic Favorite Why Open Decks Are Popular Open decks remain the most commonly […]