Northern Outdoor Living is based in Hastings, Minnesota, where owner and designer Dan Pettit builds one-of-a-kind outdoor living spaces engineered to last generations. From this home base, our team designs and constructs custom decks, multi-zone outdoor rooms, screened porches, pergolas, outdoor kitchens, fire features, and the signature light-art feature walls that have earned national recognition. We treat every project as living art — a permanent extension of your home rather than a maintenance item you’ll someday replace.
Hastings is also home to some of our signature work, including our Light Art Mural Fiber Wall project, where an aging poolside deck became a glowing outdoor living room wrapped in an 18-foot fiber-optic privacy wall. As a member of Owens Corning’s selective Pro Build Team, we build every project by default with WearDeck — a fully synthetic, non-organic composite backed by a warranty far beyond any wood deck. That’s access most builders don’t have, and it’s what lets Dan create the sculptural, competition-winning designs that define our work.
Whether you’re replacing a failing deck and never want to do it again, or dreaming of a themed, meaningful outdoor space built around something you love, our guided design process leads you from an initial site visit through custom 3D renderings to a finished space you’ll enjoy for a lifetime.