Decking 101

The first thing you should know about redoing your deck is that it's hard. Hard and time consuming. Especially when you are really redoing it. We are so, so grateful to our neighbors who helped us tear the awful, original deck down, and so, SO grateful for Scott and Karen who came down to help us rebuild.

Go figure I didn't get any great "before" shots, nor any really great "during" shots, since Yale and I were out of town for the major deck weekend for another special event. So, enjoy the pictures I do have. And if you saw the deck before, then you really know what we were dealing with.

I found this before picture online. 

Not too easy to see what a mess it was, but you can see how big it was.

Enjoying our new deck!

It's so nice to sit out there and not be afraid you're going to fall through.

Sneak Peek

I know you have all been so curious. Without further ado...

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

I've spent a lot of time these past few days cleaning so I had to take pictures afterward. 

Proof that this place was clean once upon a time:

And now just some cuteness: