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IT DOESN'T GET MUCH
BETTER THAN THIS !
Here is a multi-level deck with a sunken spa surrounded by
a unique spa screen, planter boxes of many shapes and sizes,
two different rainbow-arched stairs. wide flared steps and an
assortment of seats.
The deck is just too vast and complex to be shown in its entirety by a
few photos. So, many oriented arrows have been placed on the blueprint at
the points from where the photo's vantage is located.
Clicking on any of these will give you a full-screen
perspective from that vantage point.
This is the very first deck, after 15 years, that incorporates cascading
seats on the stairs as was done in the
Bredt project.
But there are many new added features here:
The wide stairs are flared
-- each step is 6 inches
wider on each end than
the one above it. So the cascading seats are offset by that measure too.
Not only that, but the wide stairs are angular and segregated by a central
run of cascading seats that are pentagonal.
The seating around the recessed spa rests on the very edge
of the main deck cut-out and cantilevers over the spa deck two steps
below.
The design places planter boxes at seven different locations
with their sites dictating their various sizes and shapes.
There are also bay-nooks off the
decks at various points along the perimeter with flowering bushes.
All the seating is under-lit by hidden 12-volt 20 watt halogen
recessed lamps, 40 in all. And with the 3-bulb candelabra carriage-lantern
atop the post on the main deck, the night-time setting provides just the
right ambient atmosphere for safely entertaining large gatherings.
This setting is on a ridge in Holiday
Lake Estates overlooking the entire unobstructed valley of Morgan Hill,
California, below. To keep this vista wide-open from the vantage of the main deck, the
ridge property line was fenced with parallel horizontal 1/8-inch stranded
stainless steel cables at 3-inch spacing, threaded through stand-alone
4x6 vertical posts at 6-foot spacing, painted a dark green and having no
connecting cap board. The result is an
impenetrable 5-foot high barrier that is quite transparent!
This is one of our most striking decks yet, due mainly to taking full
advantage of a unique setting that offers a vast panorama with an eagle's
vista!
This is the last redwood
deck we built and the last deck Mr. Deck will ever plank with wood, having
now a lot of very positive results with our solid-plastic
PrimoPlank.
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