Atlanta Motorized Screens is an authorized MagnaTrack™ dealer installing motorized retractable porch screens and patio screens across Morningside-Lenox Park, from the 1920s Tudors and Colonials along Morningside Drive, East Rock Springs, and Lenox Road to Johnson Estates, Noble Park, University Park, Hylan Park, and the streets between Piedmont and North Highland. Morningside was laid out in the 1920s with wide lots, deep setbacks, and a porch or terrace on nearly every house, under a canopy that has had a hundred years to fill in. The problem is how few evenings a year those porches actually get 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 Morningside porches do they work on? All of them. Here is what each one calls for.
The Tudor Revivals, Colonials, and brick cottages along Morningside Drive, Lenox Road, Plymouth Road, Wessyngton, Cumberland Road, Lanier Boulevard, and the Lenox Park blocks were built by Ivey and Crook and their contemporaries with slate roofs, arched porches, and side terraces that were meant to be lived on. Most still have the original brick, stone, and trim, and the screens have to disappear into them.
Johnson Estates, Noble Park, University Park, Hylan Park, and the streets off East Rock Springs, University Drive, and North Highland are where the 1930s cottages have been expanded into some of the largest renovations intown: new back porches, outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, pool decks, and screened porches that were drawn to be the main room of the house. Those are the porches that should get used every night, and the pollen, the bugs, and the evening sun are why they do not.
The townhomes, condos, and new builds along Piedmont Avenue, Monroe Drive, around Morningside Village and Ansley Mall, and the blocks backing up to the BeltLine Eastside Trail and Piedmont Park put you a walk from everything 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 Morningside arched 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 Morningside Village, Ansley Mall, and North Highland patios that stay open through mosquito season and the first cold snap.
Under the Morningside 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 Morningside Farmers Market on a Saturday morning.
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 Morningside projects here as they're completed.
Serving all of Morningside-Lenox Park and the surrounding intown neighborhoods, including Morningside, Lenox Park, Johnson Estates, Noble Park, University Park, Hylan Park, Morningside Village, Morningside Drive, East Rock Springs, Lanier Boulevard, Wessyngton, Plymouth Road, Sidney Marcus Park, Ansley Park, Ansley Mall, Piedmont Heights, Lindridge-Martin Manor, Sherwood Forest, Virginia-Highland, Druid Hills, Piedmont Park, and the BeltLine Eastside 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.
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. Most of Morningside-Lenox Park has no HOA and no local historic overlay, so the decision is usually the homeowner's; townhome and condo buildings along Piedmont and Monroe have their own associations, and we provide drawings and specs for those applications.
Both. Most of Morningside'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, brick, 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 Morningside-Lenox Park, and across Atlanta and the metro area, all the way to Lake Oconee.
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