from a notion into reality

it's fair to say that i love to build things and one of the ways that i work out the details prior to commencing a project is to sketch it out. for our deck plan i must have come up with a billion or so doodles--often the same thing over and over--so i figured it'd be fun to post some of them up along with some photos of how the whole thing turned out.

original concept sketch:


working out the ideas:


still planning:


some final numbers:


the end result:




* i had a tonne of help from friends and family over the course of this whole thing (from the designing, to building, to beer drinking) and i plan on putting up some pics from the various stages of this very long project now that it's actually done. thanx to everyone who was part of this.