I’ve been planning on building a deck on the back of our house for about a year or so now, and things just keep coming up so we can’t afford it. Basically, the back part of our house just past the back door is always muddy. It’s un-even, and I think there’s a well under there. We’ll never get grass to grow there, so it looks terrible.
So we decided to cover it up with a deck, so we’d have a nice pretty area to hang out in the summer months and maybe we can keep the snow off it during the winter months. We have also looked at gazebos, one of which would look great on the corner of the deck as well, but that’s just dreaming at this point.
I’ve done a bit of yard work the last couple weeks, but there’s oh so much more to do. We’re not the messiest house on the street, but we’re not far off. We could honestly do with tearing out practically all the ratty-ass trees and replacing them, but that takes money and tools I don’t have. 