Deck expansion

Once we made the decision to stick around in this house for a while and not move somewhere else, we decided to make a few changes. The first of which was to make our deck a little bigger. We love sitting outside in the summer, BBQ'ing, watching the sunset and just watching the kids play outside. However, once you add a BBQ, a table and chairs, a kid-size table, a few flower pots and anything else that the kids decide they need on a 10x10 space, things were getting a little tight!

So, Kevin asked his nephew, Ryan, to come out for the day and together they ripped off the old stairs, framed in a deck addition and a new set of stairs and, voila!, we have some more space. Kevin was quite excited to strap on his old tool belt and do some building!





Kendra and Owen tried to get in on the building as well, designing and building their own benches. They might need a bit of work yet!

There is obviously some more work that needs to be done yet but the main structure is done! I'll post more pictures when it is all finished!