In the summer of 2001, Dean and I were taking a break from installing the ten foot wide bow window that is pictured above. We were having one of our usual but not so typical contractor like discussions with some esoteric references to Nietzsche and such, when unbeknownst to us, our next customer, who was also the next-door neighbor, started to prune her bushes, on the other side of the fence, and listen.

Later that same day, after Dean and I had left, and with her curiosity aroused, the good neighbor came over to find out what we had been up to. Our workmanship must have been better than our conversational skills, because soon afterwards she and her husband hired us to build them a deck.

They wanted a deck off their eat-in kitchen, but they didn’t want the deck to block their view of the beautifully manicured golf course and the tree line down below. Solution ... install a door where a window had been ... a window where a door had been ... and then build a three level deck so that the main deck surface is below the sight line to the golf course and the trees.