Finished Deck Project

Wrapping up our deck project isn't really wrapping it up. It's one of those projects that never really finish, there's always more to do with the landscaping, or building the next patio. But now we have enough finished to show off a walk through and put a button on this series of posts. It's time to get back to building boats!

For the inside of the door, I ran molding around on the wall and put a relief inside of the jamb. We custom cut a threshold as well, then ran baseboard and quarter round. I actually replaced all of the baseboard for the entire room. Since that picture was taken, I have gotten a coat of paint on the walls and the first coat of paint on the molding. It still needs some caulk to fill in some gaps and another coat of trim paint. I wish I had sanded more as well. But it's up and the floor has been repaired and the wife is pretty happy with it.

Just outside of the door we see the ledger board for how the roof attaches to the house. There was a part where the gutter was removed and the roofline juts out. I had to adjust the height of the ledger board and overall length of the roof to accomodate this discrepancy. To the left of that white part the board only attaches to the exterior wall of the house, but the part to the right attaches to the soffitt where the gutter was attached. It was an interesting wrinkle to the roof design.

Sky chair from amazon

couch from Pier 1

stole a chair from the table set

Level 2 got the table set (gift) and the grill (Lowe's)

Of course I went for an App State grill cover

Side of the roof & screened porch

Level 3, love seats and fire pit from Lowe's

Side view of the entire system

from deeper in the backyard

View from the other side

We added a deck box to store the cushions

Other side of Level 3

Concrete tiki guy and planters

So there is still some work to go. We need to add skirting around the bottom of level 1 and 2. I still think we need to add soffitt around the roof edges, but that might not happen. Hardscape is still going into the landscape - I've got the bricks down and that is going to lead into a pea gravel path. The side with the deck box is going to get a stone patio of some kind. There's going to be lots of plantings all around. We're expanding the grass area of the backyard significantly so when the time of year is right, there's lots of seed to spread and beds to define. Until then it's all this:

Happy kids making s'mores

Youngest loves the hammock chair