I haven’t shown you much of our deck or back yard. Because it’s a little embarrassing.
The deck and yard were two of our favorite things about this house before purchasing it. The deck is pretty large. In fact, at 600 square feet, it’s larger than my first apartment was. As a friend said, we “bought a deck with a house attached.”
Once we moved in and the snow melted, the deck had to be re-painted.
I painted every single one of those spindles. With a brush. It took forever. But it looked so pretty!
This was in early spring, and by that summer, it was all peeling up…badly. As you can imagine, I had no desire to do all that again (especially if it was only going to last a few months), so it’s been peeling up ever since. But as it turns out, the deck boards are at the end of their life expectancy anyway and they’re all beginning to rot.
Here’s what it looks like today.
Nasty, huh? This is why you haven’t seen it.
So, I bet you can guess what we’re doing this weekend! Or beginning to do this weekend anyway…it will probably take longer than that to rebuild the whole deck. Of course, I will keep you updated on our newest project.
So I’m curious, what are you going to rebuild the deck out of? I love wooden decks, but my parents’ deck is built out of the newer composites and it looks amazing and requires almost no maintenance. I’m looking forward to the updates!
It’s going to be wood again (just delivered, yay!). The no-maintenance thought sure was tempting, but I would just miss the feel and sound of natural wood too much. It’s good to know that they are improving though…our front porch isn’t far behind the deck, so I’ll consider it for there after hearing your review! 🙂
Your deck is aboslutely amazing. I feel like having dinner al fresco just seeing your pictures. It’s going to be a lot of work, but it’ll be worth it!
Argh! So much work and so little time to enjoy it.
I like how it’s angled 45 degrees of the house walls, that’s interesting. Will you angle the new deck too?
Yes! I’m sure that once it’s finished, we will be using it a lot more than we did before. 🙂
We decided not to keep the angle because it takes A LOT more wood (a lot more waste from the angled cuts), and we didn’t mind that putting them in straight would be a lot less time and work either. 😉
Looks fabulous, did you consider clear view railings? Wouldn’t obscure your view (as much)
Thanks Katharine! The clear railings are quite tempting, and if we had more modern house, we would go for it. This is the one time it bums me out to stick to the history of our Victorian. 🙂
It’ll look beautiful, I’m very jealous. 😀
Thank you Katharine! 😀