Box stairs deck

Building a single box step http://lessonsfromthegarden-jen.blogspot.com/2012/06/building-box-step-for-deck.html?m=1

How to install single box steps, and double box steps, the easiest types of steps to construct for low decks. They are a simple and stable solution.

Box stair framing Our DIY staffers love it when we find one of our more... "creative" awardees stepping outside of their beloved comfort zones to pick up a few extra cents from the nice people at eHow.com. Today's is once such occasion, a day in which a repeat DotD with advanced degrees in "creative writing" and "math education" tries her hand at a carpentry primers. Please welcome to the nomination stand Stephanie Ellen (also known as S. Deviant), whom we found attempting to explain "How to…

Boxes Instead of Stringers - Fine Homebuilding

It is so easy to build deck stairs! Check out how we did this DIY project...

These outdoor planter steps are easy to make and could also work as outdoor benches. Free plans by ANA-WHITE.com

Box steps with lights

Dream Deck Plans

Welcome back to our latest Pro-Follow update. Steve Wartman and his crew are three days into building a brand new composite deck. Our first installment in this series covered pouring deck footers and installing the ledger board. Our second installment focused on setting the posts, running support beams, and installing the joists. Today's article covers adding the band board, blocking between joists, and building the stairs. We'll be publishing two more articles in this series before we cap…

We built this nice deck in Northeast Portland. It is decked with Timbertech Pacific teak decking and has lights under each stair tread. It was a replacement for a small unusable deck with railing that had been built by the builder and was rotting away do to the wrong wood type being used. This deck […]

The main reason we moved to Michigan was to be closer to family. Which of course means more projects get added to the “to do” list. We love to build but even more we love to help out family, so when my brother-in-law asked me to help out on a deck build I jumped right in! We designed this deck to be a freestanding deck, we did this because in the county he lives in a deck attached to the building becomes taxable. To avoid this we decided a floating deck would be the best option. We wanted to…

Decks and construction--you're wondering how exactly this falls into the category of gardening. Well, it does and it doesn't. You see, for years, we've had a deck surrounded by a flower bed. It has always been pretty. In the spring, we have tulips. In the summer, daylillies and black-eyed susans, and in the fall, shasta daisies. However, over the years, the flower bed has become overgrown and the built-in deck benches were ripped out. This left a wide open space, and a much too large step…