Or at least phase one is complete. Phase one was designed to put a deck on two side of our home, to cover the front door and living room, dining room doors. This would allow folks to use our front door more easily, as well as simply walk down toward the large open deck adjoining the end of the house. Phase two is a project for the future, where we extend the deck to the other side of the house, over-hanging the garage. Phase two is totally unnecessary and we may never actually build it.
Completing this project allowed us to open the exterior door to the dining room; something we had not been able to do since the drop-off was quite high. Now, we have the BBQ set up on the deck, some nice entry mats, and it’s all set. We received our final inpection last week, passing with no further work necessary. Sweet.
Due to the design of our deck, I was unable to use the last 44 inches of many boards; I needed at least 48 inches in most cases. This left me with quite a few small leftovers. What to do? Build a patio table of course. After reviewing different designs, I settled on a home-brew plan for an octagon table. At just under two feet for the flat sides, I was able to get two outside “sides” from each leftover board, then work my way in. A total of five rings make up the table, with approximately an eigth-inch between each ring, I have a table almost five feet across at the points, and just around four feet nine inches across the flat sides. Oh and man is it heavy! Our deck is made of Nexwood, and so it the patio table. No worries about it decaying much. This makes me very happy. Now I just need to make some chairs to go with the table.
The deck was my major summer project this year, 2005. I’m glad it’s done, and just in time too; we had snow this last weekend. Now, my projects move indoors. Perhaps this winter, I’ll get some new walls tipped up in our basement. I’d really like to get our root cellar done soon.
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