well that didn't work. let try this.

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Wow ... it's beautiful! Cute model, too!

Great job!

Nicely done. Elegantly simple, looks well done and compliments the house well.

It appears to have a finish on it. If so what did you use ?

Thanks for the compliments.

@kahuna - TWP Dark Oak #103. The Mrs. and I liked the dark brown color better than the reddish brown of the more widely used Rustic Oak #116.

Nice work. That project will hold the youngen when He brings home the first Babey.

I have been using the dark oak or a mixture for a while now. Thanks Weedster!!! J.

Darn fine job you did there!

Gorgeous!! and you went 'above and beyond' with staining the support posts, which looks wonderful. is it just PT or did you wrap the PT with ipe?

You did good...real good
Glad to have helped.

steve

@funyellow - The support posts are 6x6 PT, just couldn't stand the site of them under the beautiful Ipe so I stained them to help them blend in. The railing posts are 4x4 Ipe.

Very nice! I'd love to see a photo of how you framed your stairs, if you've got one. I contemplated doing some corner stairs but chickened out.

Your photos also make me resolve to stain my PT posts, which are still glaringly yellow.

@weedy - Here's the pic. I treated it with coppper green, thus the color. It took me longer to frame up the stairs then it did to frame the rest of the deck. I used Simpson LSCZ connectors for all of the risers.

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Yo Daver, where did you get the copper green? I understand rustolium is making it now. J.

@hyatt - Only thing I could find locally was Black Flag Termin8 Copper Green at a Home Cheapot. It came in a pump spray bottle. See the link below. I'm sure spraying it on doesn't protect as well as soaking, but it was easy to apply so I sprayed on a couple coats.

Here is a link that might be useful: Black Flag Termin-8 Copper Green

Looks amazing! Question about staining the PT posts - what kind of prep (if any) did you do on the PT wood?

I'm thinking about doing the same thing with TWP on PT. Unfortunately, my PT is of the west coast incissor mark variety so they will be fugly even with a good coat of stain.

@godillos - I didn't prep the PT posts at all other than brushing the dirt off. I plan to put some shrubs in around that side of the deck, so I didn't care if it was a perfect stain job or not.