As most of you already know, CJ and I (along with help from the kids!) have taken on the project of building a deck this summer. We started it on Father's Day and finally finished it this week on Monday night!! Wow!! I know it seems like it took us a long time, but it really didn't... we were only able to dedicate 3-4 full days of working on it , along with a few hours here and there each week. Most nights were impossible to work on it because of the kids' ball games, or because of our work schedules! Anyway, the project is now complete and we consider ourselves very proud to have built something all by ourselves!!!
The previous deck
that was already on the house was only 4' X 20' and ran along the length of the house towards the back yard. It was rotting and falling apart and I never liked it because it was too small to do anything on and it also had no way of getting to the back yard. If you walked onto it, you had to turn around (or back up since it was so narrow!) and go back to the front of the house and around the other side just to get to the backyard. I told CJ that if we ever put another one up, I wanted it bigger and I wanted steps going down to the back yard. Well, with this deck, I got both things I wanted! The new deck is 8' X 20' and we put some steps going down the back! Since this deck is sitting over a "hill" that run
s down to a retaining wall, we had to build a level platform of some sort for the steps. This is where our wonderful friends, Tom and Sara helped us out! Tom was in the landscaping business for 10+ years, so he was a real lifesaver here because we didn't have the first clue on how to go about doing this!
that was already on the house was only 4' X 20' and ran along the length of the house towards the back yard. It was rotting and falling apart and I never liked it because it was too small to do anything on and it also had no way of getting to the back yard. If you walked onto it, you had to turn around (or back up since it was so narrow!) and go back to the front of the house and around the other side just to get to the backyard. I told CJ that if we ever put another one up, I wanted it bigger and I wanted steps going down to the back yard. Well, with this deck, I got both things I wanted! The new deck is 8' X 20' and we put some steps going down the back! Since this deck is sitting over a "hill" that run
s down to a retaining wall, we had to build a level platform of some sort for the steps. This is where our wonderful friends, Tom and Sara helped us out! Tom was in the landscaping business for 10+ years, so he was a real lifesaver here because we didn't have the first clue on how to go about doing this! As you can see from the pictures, Tom did a really great job of creating a landing for our steps... and CJ, the kids and I did a great job of building this deck, if I do say so myself!! Check it out!!
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