Atlanta Motorized Screens is an authorized MagnaTrack™ dealer installing motorized retractable porch screens and patio screens across Grant Park, from the Victorians along Cherokee Avenue, Grant Street, and Boulevard to the bungalows of East and West Grant Park, Ormewood Park, Summerhill, and the townhomes along Memorial Drive and the Beacon. Grant Park grew up around Atlanta's oldest park and Oakland Cemetery in the 1880s, and it is still a front porch neighborhood where the porch is the best room in the house. The problem is how few evenings a year it actually gets used:
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 Grant Park porches do they work on? All of them. Here is what each one calls for.
The Queen Annes, Victorian cottages, and Folk Victorians along Cherokee Avenue, Grant Street, Boulevard, Ormond, Atlanta Avenue, and Georgia Avenue facing the park were built in the 1880s and 1890s with wraparound porches, turned balusters, and gingerbread trim, and they sit inside a City of Atlanta historic district. Screening one is a retrofit job, and it has to disappear into the house.
The Craftsman bungalows and cottages in East Grant Park, West Grant Park, Ormewood Park, Woodland Hills, Glenwood Park, Summerhill, and the blocks between Memorial Drive and Ormewood Avenue came a generation later, with deep front porches close to the sidewalk and back porches that have been rebuilt into outdoor rooms.
The townhomes, lofts, and new builds along Memorial Drive, the Beacon, Glenwood Park, the Southside Trail, Summerhill's Georgia Avenue corridor, and the blocks around Oakland Cemetery and the Masonic Temple put you a walk from the zoo and the farmers market 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 Grant Park Victorian porch, screened for pollen, mosquitoes, and the sidewalk, 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.
The Memorial Drive, Beacon, and Cherokee Avenue patios that stay open through mosquito season and the first cold snap.
Under the Grant Park 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 Sunday farmers market at the Beacon.
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, and through the Oakland Cemetery Candlelight Tour.
Photos are MagnaTrack dealer-network installations, shown to illustrate the system. We'll add Grant Park projects here as they're completed.
Serving all of Grant Park and the surrounding intown neighborhoods, including Cherokee Avenue, Boulevard, Grant Street, East Grant Park, West Grant Park, North Grant Park, Ormewood Park, Woodland Hills, Glenwood Park, Summerhill, Cabbagetown, Reynoldstown, East Atlanta, Oakland Cemetery, Zoo Atlanta, Memorial Drive, the Beacon, the Masonic Temple, Georgia Avenue, and the BeltLine Southside Trail.
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 review board, 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. Grant Park is a City of Atlanta local historic district, so changes visible from the street go through the Urban Design Commission; rear and side 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 Grant Park'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 millwork 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 Grant Park, and across Atlanta and the metro area, all the way to Lake Oconee.
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