Atlanta Motorized Screens is an authorized MagnaTrack™ dealer installing motorized retractable patio screens and porch screens across Decatur, from the bungalows of Oakhurst, Winnona Park, and the MAK Historic District to Glennwood Estates, Great Lakes, Ponce de Leon Heights, Druid Hills, Avondale Estates, and the townhomes around Decatur Square and East Decatur Station. Decatur is a front porch town under one of the oldest tree canopies in Georgia, which is exactly why people move here, and exactly why the porch is empty most evenings:
A motorized retractable screen fixes all five, and when the evening is perfect, it disappears into its housing at the touch of a button. Every project starts with a free in-home consultation and is quoted line by line.
Which Decatur porches do they work on? All of them. Here is what each one calls for.
The 1920s to 1950s bungalows, Craftsman cottages, and Tudors in Oakhurst, Winnona Park, the MAK Historic District, Ponce de Leon Heights, Ponce de Leon Court, College Heights, Chelsea Heights, and the streets around Agnes Scott were built around the front porch and a deep back porch. Most are original, and so are the pollen and the mosquitoes. Screening them is a retrofit job, and it has to respect the trim.
Glennwood Estates, Clairemont and Great Lakes, Decatur Heights, Westchester Hills, Druid Hills, Emory Parc, and the homes along Clairemont Avenue, Ponce de Leon, and Lullwater sit on bigger wooded lots with serious covered outdoor rooms: outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, pool decks, and furniture that costs more than most porches.
The townhomes, condos, and new builds around Decatur Square, East Decatur Station, Avondale Estates, the Avondale MARTA district, Sycamore Street, East Lake, Kirkwood, and the Oakhurst business district put you a walk from the restaurants and twelve feet from a neighbor. Patios, balconies, and rooftop terraces here are smaller, closer, and often face west into the evening sun.
Any covered opening up to 30 feet wide and 20 feet tall, on the house or off it.
The classic Decatur bungalow porch, screened for pollen and mosquitoes and open again the moment the weather turns nice.
Solar mesh over the grill and dining area for glare control and shade, without walling off the yard.
Privacy mesh on the lot-line side, insect mesh toward the water. The pool house becomes a second living room.
Motorized pergola screens turn an open frame into a usable room. Tracks mount to the posts; the housing tucks under the beam.
Door up, screen down. Airflow without an audience.
Decatur Square, Oakhurst, and Avondale Estates patios that stay open through mosquito season and the first cold snap.
Under the Decatur canopy, screens down through March and April keep most of the yellow film off the furniture. Hose the mesh, not the cushions.
Insect mesh for the bugs, solar mesh for the sun. Either way, dinner on the porch in August without the spray and without the glare.
Press a button and the screens retract completely. Nothing between you and October, or the Decatur Book Festival weekend.
Once the leaves are down and the sun comes through, clear vinyl seals the space and holds the heat from a patio heater or fireplace. The porch stays in service through January.
Photos are MagnaTrack dealer-network installations, shown to illustrate the system. We'll add Decatur projects here as they're completed.
Serving every Decatur neighborhood, including Oakhurst, Winnona Park, the MAK Historic District, Glennwood Estates, Clairemont and Great Lakes, Ponce de Leon Heights, Ponce de Leon Court, College Heights, Chelsea Heights, Decatur Heights, Dearborn Heights, Westchester Hills, Lenox Place, Adair Park, Midway Woods, Parkwood, Ridgeland Park, Sycamore Street, Emory Parc, Druid Hills, Avondale Estates, East Lake, Kirkwood, Lake Claire, Candler Park, North Decatur, Medlock Park, Scottdale, Belvedere Park, and Decatur Square.
Yes. MagnaTrack's magnetic track is designed to flex under a gust and pull itself back into place instead of tearing out, which is the usual failure on zipper-track screens. The manufacturer recommends raising standard screens above 60 mph; the Defender series is rated for 24/7 deployment in Category 5 winds. Solar mesh blocks up to 85% of wind and rain when extended. More on the MagnaTrack system page.
We can't speak for any individual association, but the system is built for architectural review: housings and tracks are powder-coated in any RAL color to match your trim, the profile is slim, and the screens disappear completely when retracted. For homes in a Decatur local historic district, exterior changes visible from the street go through the city's Historic Preservation Commission; rear porches often fall outside that review, but check first. We provide product drawings and color specs you can submit with your application.
Both. Most of Decatur's housing stock is established, and face-mount tracks retrofit onto nearly any existing covered porch, patio, or pergola. On older homes we face-mount to the existing columns and beam so original trim stays untouched. On a new build or a major renovation, the housing and tracks can be recessed into the ceiling and columns so nothing is visible when the screens are up. Worth raising with your builder early.
Every project is custom fabricated to your openings, so pricing depends on the number of openings, their size, the mesh you choose, and the controls. We measure in person, walk through the options with samples, and leave an itemized quote that includes materials and installation. The consultation is free, with no deposit and no obligation.
About six weeks from order to shipment, since each screen is built to your exact measurements. Most projects install in a single day once the screens arrive. We give you a real date when we quote.
Schedule your free in-home consultation anywhere in Decatur, and across Atlanta and the metro area, all the way to Lake Oconee.
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