Atlanta Motorized Screens is an authorized MagnaTrack™ dealer installing motorized retractable porch screens and patio screens across Virginia-Highland, from the 1920s bungalows along Virginia Avenue, North Highland, and St. Charles to Atkins Park, Highland Park, Orme Park, and the streets between Ponce and Amsterdam. VaHi is a front porch neighborhood built before air conditioning, and the porches are still the best room in the house. The problem is how few evenings a year they 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 VaHi porches do they work on? All of them. Here is what each one calls for.
The Craftsman bungalows, English cottages, and Foursquares built between 1909 and 1926 along Virginia Avenue, North Highland, St. Charles, Adair, Barnett, Kentucky, Hudson, Greenwood, and Rosedale are the reason people move to VaHi. Nearly every one has a deep front porch with tapered columns and a beadboard ceiling, and most still have the original trim. Screening one is a retrofit job, and it has to respect the house.
Atkins Park sits on the National Register with a historic overlay, and the Virginia-Highland Historic District covers most of the rest of the neighborhood. The homes along St. Charles, Ponce de Leon Place, Rupley, Todd, and the Highland Park blocks on either side of Ponce were built to be looked at from the street, so nothing added to them can look added on.
The townhomes, condos, and new construction around Amsterdam Walk, Monroe Drive, Ponce de Leon Place, the Adair Mansion condos, and the blocks backing up to the BeltLine Eastside Trail put you a walk from Piedmont Park 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 VaHi bungalow 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.
One continuous screen line around the corner, no posts in the view.
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 Virginia and Highland, Atkins Park, and Amsterdam patios that stay open through mosquito season and the first cold snap.
Under the VaHi oaks, 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 Summerfest weekend on the porch.
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 Virginia-Highland projects here as they're completed.
Serving all of Virginia-Highland and the surrounding intown neighborhoods, including VaHi, Atkins Park, Highland Park, St. Charles-Greenwood, Orme Park, Amsterdam Walk, Morningside, Lenox Park, Poncey-Highland, Druid Hills, Midtown, Piedmont Heights, Ansley Park, Inman Park, Old Fourth Ward, Candler Park, Lake Claire, 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.
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. Homes inside the Atkins Park overlay go through the City of Atlanta's Urban Design Commission for street-facing changes; 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 Virginia-Highland'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 Virginia-Highland, and across Atlanta and the metro area, all the way to Lake Oconee.
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