Deck Preview

Happy New Week.

Hope you all had a great Easter.  

So different for all of us. 

Let's hope that the shelter in place will begin to bring the spread of this virus down and we can all return to our regular routines again.

Terry and I decided to take advantage of the shelter in place Easter weekend and start to work on the new deck.

Our backyard has been a mess since the build of the garage and it needs lots of TLC.

We want to create more living space for this tiny house.  We decided on building a deck area to give us an outside dining and entertaining area.

We had this 12 x 12 cement patio for the beginning of the deck area.

It is hard to see but we wanted to go out past the side of the garage where you can see the small cement step from the garage behind that chair. 

You can see all the mud in the center of the picture from where they had to trench up the grass to bring the electrical from the garage to the house when they built the garage. 

This space will give us a 16 x 24 foot deck area.  

This was taken at night right after a thunderstorm with hail.  

Sorry about this pic too.  

I took it through the screen door lol!  You can see the beginning of the framing for the new deck.

After the framing and getting everything square and lined up we began to lay down the Trex composite decking panels.  

We chose the composite decking because it is maintenance free.  No staining each year after our harsh winters. 

Our little contractor Buddy was surveying the area to make sure we were doing it correctly.

Here is some of the finished deck.  

We put up this deck railing and gate to keep the little contractor in the yard!

The gate is at the end of the deck to allow us access to the back deck from the drive and garage.

We still have trim pieces to finish to frame out the deck and keep little critters from going under the deck.  

We just ran out of weekend so hopefully if the weather allows next weekend we can complete this deck.

The she shed still needs some paint at the top and the flower beds and grass are the next project for this backyard makeover.

We will now have a dining space and entertainment space for the summer and fall months of nice weather.  

We are looking at building a pergola or gazebo on this deck.

As you can see in this picture the stair still needs to be trimmed out.

I am on the hunt for a large dining table and chairs and I ordered a fire pit table and can use my comfy chairs with cushions to go around that.

Been looking at a few outdoor chairs and loveseat combo's too.

I cannot wait to get my flowers going and planting new flowering bushes in this backyard.

My she shed all dolled up and done soon.

The weather has been so crazy.  70's for a few days and now we are below normal in the 40's with the possibility of some snow today and tomorrow.

I am glad we got a jump on the deck this weekend.  

One less project to take up a weekend as the weather begins to get nice.

I cannot wait to fix up this backyard with lots of flowers and lots of space for us to enjoy the outdoors.

Have a wonderful week.