Projects
The Mattson Project

Here's a designer deck built with solid-plastic PrimoPlank decking. 

This project takes a useless, shaded, dank corner of a mid-$-range L-shaped split-level house and turns it into a very up-scale, outdoor extension of the well-appointed interior.

Even the contractor who did the interior renovation of the house remarked that the craftsmanship possible with plastic was comparable to that usually reserved for indoors! In fact, those plastic doors on the built-in cabinet (which have hidden European hinges) were actually fabricated for us by a journey-level cabinet maker.

Deck features:

• cascading trapezoidal planter boxes
• a built-in cabinet with a pair of flush-mount double doors
• a sunken level with a below-deck hot-tub
• a figure-6 wrap-around seating arrangement
• a lean-out railing with integrated seating
• wide transition steps bordered on both sides with integrated planters
• a long cantilevered frontal overhang
• a tall designer privacy-screen all along the neighboring property side.

There is low-voltage lighting with hidden wiring:

• along the sides of the trapezoidal planters and built-in cabinet
• beneath each bend in the seating and midway in the long seat-segment
• on the stair posts
• in the wide-stair risers.

Notice the different shades of cedar-colored planking. Such variation gives the appearance of actual wood. This planking is the highest priced selection of PrimoPlank. It demonstrates that you only get what you pay for -- and here it really shows!

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