Aluminium Garden FurnitureGarden Furniture Design

Although outdoor furnishings can be put on any kind of patio, or even in the middle of the garden itself, decking makes a lovely addition to most patios, bringing out the best in your garden furnitue. For this reason, I have decided to provide some important pointers for those people considering making their own decking. The best of people – those who do it themselves!

For starters, make sure the frame is perfect – it is the integral part of the decking! Before you build it, figure out which way the boards are going to run so that you can build the main joints of the frame in the opposite direction, for added support and strength. Although frames can be easily built directly onto the patio, many people like to put bricks beneath the decking to add height – probably so they can feel like they are Lords over people without decking…

If you are going to use bricks to boost you decking and self esteem, remember to use enough to support the whole deck – not just the corners! If you want a guideline for how many to use, I’d go with “as many as you possibly can”. A spring in your step is about the last thing you want when carrying cocktails across your new decking!

As a final point – make certain to screw the frame together. I know nails are infinitely manlier, but screws work a lot better and will hold the timber together for years. Did I mention you should be using timber for the decking? No? That’s because it should be obvious.

That’s all for now my dears.