Custom I-Beam Gable Porch Roof and Planter Box in Tarrytown

Curb appeal is one of those things that's hard to fake. Either the front of your home has a cohesive, intentional look - or it doesn't. This Tarrytown home needed something that could pull the whole facade together, and a standard off-the-shelf solution wasn't going to cut it.

We built a custom I-beam gable porch roof from the ground up. Steel I-beams give this kind of structure real backbone - not just visually, but structurally. The gable pitch ties directly into the roofline of the house, so it reads as part of the home rather than something tacked on after the fact. That's the detail that separates a good install from a great one.

The matching steel planter box was the finishing move. Running the length of the front window, it grounds the whole front elevation and gives the landscaping a clean container to work within. Same material, same finish, same intention. Everything speaks to each other.

That's really what custom metal work comes down to - coherence. When the porch structure and the planter box share the same design language, the whole front of the house levels up. It's not about one flashy element. It's about every piece fitting together like it was always supposed to be there.

We love this kind of work because it sits at the intersection of function and craft. The steel is built to last, the fabrication is tight, and the result is something the homeowner sees every single time they pull into the driveway.