In early May, I visited my friend NR. He and his wife (also a friend) just bought their first house. The house is very cool (e.g., old but recently renovated, one block from a lake, cool location, and more) but the deck was too small. As you can see in the first picture below, it was more of a platform/landing that was the space you would walk between the back door entrance and the stairs.

While the platform is nice, it’s no deck. And the backyard has more than enough space for a deck so we decided to extend it significantly (probably almost triple it’s previous size). In one long weekend, we did so and here are the after pictures.