| Sometimes, you will want to be able to walk on part | | | | to build yourself: normal decking is just a grate-style |
| of your garden without walking on the grass, | | | | frame with beams every metre or so, and then |
| essentially creating a floored area at one end of the | | | | planks of wood fixed to the top. If you're unsure |
| garden and perhaps also a path through it. The most | | | | then you can buy the parts from a garden centre, |
| common way of doing this used to be concrete | | | | but if you have built things out of wood before then |
| patios, but they are fast falling out of fashion. Today, | | | | decking is really a surprisingly easy project. It is best |
| more and more people are instead opting for | | | | to leave the decking unpainted and natural, both for |
| wooden decking. | | | | maintenance reasons and because it tends to look |
| Decking can be built either straight over the top of | | | | better. |
| grass, or on top of an existing patio. It is not difficult | | | | |