Terrace House Backyard Design
12 Ideas for the Roof, Wet Kitchen & Utility Yard

Terrace house backyard design gallery: 12 concepts

Each design below is an illustrative concept render of one idea for the yard behind a terrace kitchen. They are grouped into the roof cover, the outdoor wet kitchen, and the drain, wall and security side. Tap any image to enlarge it. Every card links to the ClickBina guide that covers the work behind that idea.

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12 designs shown

These are illustrative concept designs created to show terrace house back yard options. They are not completed ClickBina projects. We build awnings, wet kitchens and grilles as part of our renovation work, and your yard is assessed and quoted to its own size, walls, drain and neighbours.

More galleries: browse all design ideas by area of the house, from cabinets and kitchens to porches and grilles.

What a terrace back yard is for

Behind the kitchen of most terrace houses is a hard-floored yard, closed in by the two party walls and ending at a rear wall, a drain or the back lane. It is too small and too busy to be a garden; the terrace garden gallery covers planting. This page is about the yard as a working room.

• Shelter. A roof cover keeps laundry, the washing machine and the outdoor sink dry. It is the first decision, because the frame decides what can hang from it and where rain goes.
• Cooking and washing. Many families fry, steam and wash big pots here, so the smell and smoke stay out of the house. That is the outdoor wet kitchen, or dapur basah luar.
• Drying. Clothes dry by moving air as much as by sun, so the roof and the walls must let air through.
• Utility and security. The gas cylinder, the bins, the back drain and the back gate all live here, and the back gate is often the weakest door in the house.

Choosing the roof cover

Most back-yard roofs are an awning-type cover on a steel or aluminium frame, fixed to the house wall. The sheet on top decides how the yard feels underneath: bright or shaded, cool or hot, quiet or loud in a storm. The awning design gallery shows the general types; the table below compares them for a back yard in particular.

Whatever the sheet, the roof should fall away from the house, carry its water to a gutter and a downpipe, and meet the house wall with proper flashing. Rain noise is a common complaint with metal sheets; the noisy metal roof guide explains the fixes.

Planning an outdoor wet kitchen under the roof

An outdoor wet kitchen is usually one straight counter along a party wall or the rear wall: a place to wash, chop and cook with a wok or a big pot. Plan it in the order you cook, keep the back door clear, and give the cooking end a way to lose smoke and heat, such as a roof that is open above the stove or a tall, airy roof line.

Counters for an outdoor kitchen need materials that do not swell or rot: tiled concrete, stainless steel or aluminium. The outdoor kitchen guide compares them. A low washing bay with a tap near the floor is handy for big pots and pails that do not fit a sink.

The services behind it are separate trades. The gas point and hose, the water supply, the sink and floor-trap connection to the drain, and any power point for a fan or a light each need to be planned with the counter. WhatsApp us your job details for a quote on those parts, and see the gas piping guide for what a safe gas run involves.

Drying, drains and the back gate

A covered yard dries clothes when air can move through it and some light comes in. A translucent roof over the drying side, open or grilled sides rather than solid walls, and a gap at the top of the back wall all help. If you still want direct sun, stop the roof short of the back wall and leave a strip open to the sky. The laundry area gallery shows racks and cabinets for the covered side.

An open drain along the back wall can be covered with a flush, liftable grating so it becomes usable floor. The back gate and the gap above the rear wall are the usual way in for intruders and monkeys, so many owners close them with a grille panel and a lockable grille door; a folding trellis grille at the kitchen back door lets you leave the door open for air. The grille cost guide compares grille materials.

Quick pick: start from your problem

Rules and limits to check first

• Approval. Ask the council what a back-yard roof cover needs before ordering. Turning the yard into a closed room is an extension and needs approval; the roof cover or extension guide explains the difference.
• Where your lot ends. A back lane or a council drain behind the yard is not yours to build on, and building over a drain reserve is a common reason an extension cannot be regularised later.
• Party walls and neighbours. Fixing a beam into a shared wall, or running a roof that meets the neighbours' roofs and gutters, should be agreed with them before work starts.
• Rain water. Every roof must drain to a gutter and downpipe that reaches the drain, not onto a neighbour's roof or yard.
• A way out. If you grille the yard, keep one openable, lockable exit.

What these back-yard ideas cost

ClickBina's back-yard roof guide puts a polycarbonate back-yard awning of 3 m × 5 m at RM2,000 – RM4,000, while a basic rear room (an extension rather than a cover) is listed at RM18,000 – RM50,000 (indicative Klang Valley ranges for 2026). By the metre run, the awning design guide puts polycarbonate at RM350 – RM700, corrugated zinc or metal at RM250 – RM500 and aluminium louvre at RM800 – RM1,800; where there is no wall to lean on, standalone posts add RM500 – RM2,000 each.

For the kitchen side, the outdoor kitchen guide lists stainless steel cabinets at RM650 – RM1,000 and aluminium cabinets at RM400 – RM700 per ft run, and the rear extension guide lists metal-deck roofing at RM12 – RM20 per sq ft and notes that a wet kitchen adds RM10,000 – RM30,000 to an extension. For the utility side, the laundry area guide lists a ceiling track and pole system at RM600 – RM1,500, the grille guide puts a powder-coated mild steel window grille at RM80 – RM130 per sq ft installed, and the boundary wall guide puts brick walling with plaster and paint at RM55 – RM80 per sq ft of wall area. Sandwich-panel and ACP roofs, washing bays and gas work are quoted per job.

How ClickBina can help

We design and build back-yard roof covers, outdoor wet kitchens, grilles and the tiling and masonry around them as part of our renovation work. WhatsApp us your job details for a quote: how big the yard is, whether it ends at a wall, a drain or the back lane, what you use it for today and the ideas from this page you like. ClickBina is an experienced KL & Selangor contractor, and we reply within the hour with next steps. The price we agree is a flat price with no hidden charges.

Sources & methodology

• ClickBina back-yard roof cover vs extension guide — back-yard awning and basic rear room ranges.
• ClickBina awning design guide — per-metre-run rates by roof material and standalone post cost.
• ClickBina rear kitchen extension guide — metal-deck roofing rate and wet kitchen add-on.
• ClickBina outdoor kitchen guide — stainless steel and aluminium cabinet rates.
• ClickBina laundry area, grille, trellis grille, drain and boundary wall guides — rack, grille, drain and walling rates.

About the images: every image on this page is an illustrative concept design generated to show a terrace back yard option. Captions describe what each render shows. RM figures are quoted unchanged from the ClickBina guides named above, indicative Klang Valley ranges for 2026.