Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Hitting The Deck

Spring is here and summer is on deck. Since we moved to the new house I have been like a chained-up dog on every nice day we get, because I love eating outside and we have no deck. It pains me to eat locked up inside on a nice warm breezy evening. Hurts me. Hurts me bad.

So we're going to do something about it. We now have a bad case of deck fever to add to spring fever. Two fevers. One cure.

Since we're doing this from scratch, we get to plan the deck out to fit our lifestyle. We love to entertain, so it needs to have lots of room, and extra seating in the form of built-in benches. Other wants: lighting, sound, big flower pots, a place to grow herbs, and a big hot greasy grill! And we'd really like to use Trex so we won't ever have to dance with deck sealer again.

This is a sketch I did of one possible design. It will probably evolve, but it's just something for us to kick around.


 

4 comments:

ingrid said...

Your deck-to-be sounds a lot like our deck! We have the benches, the flower pots, the grill, lots of room. No sound, lights or Trex, though. I can't wait to see yours!

Brian said...

may not want the grill next to a window or near the house at all. get one of those deck designing programs and check out your city codes/regulations sooner rather than later...

Dave said...

Bri - I already thoughgt of that and moved the grill. Went over all city ordinances and codes and everything else is good.

wildmary said...

I've got built in seating and tables and flower boxes on my deck, too. My front porch is Trex and it's awesome! Come see it!