How to Design a deck is a step-by-step guide to planning the perfect deck, quickly and easily. The book will show you simple techniques that will enable you to design a deck that enhances your home, looks great all year and suits your lifestyle needs.

You’ll learn really simple techniques to make sure your new deck looks great with the rest of your garden, whether your garden is established or a completely blank canvas. These low cost solutions are highly effective and will help give your garden the ‘WOW’ factor. 



This new version (1.1) includes a video tutorial on how to design your garden – see the bonus section at the back of the book to access it.

The book is perfect for complete beginners and covers how to:

• avoid the most common deck design mistakes

• choose the best location for your deck

• plot your deck and garden onto paper

• properly plan your deck to get the right size, shape, and style of deck to suit your home.
• make the deck area look and feel longer or wider

• design a deck that works with the whole garden

• effectively tackle changes in level

• design a beautiful garden on a budget
• 
make the most of the available space using cunning design tricks

• successfully incorporate built in planters, seating and lighting
• 
choose the right building materials from sustainable sources

• double check you’ve got everything right before your deck is built
• 
choose the right professional to construct your deck



A little bit of time spent planning your deck is a very valuable investment. It takes as much time and money to build a poorly or non-planned deck as it does a well designed deck. The visual difference, though, is enormous. The book’s main focus is on design and how to make your whole garden look great. It does include some basic construction information but this is not meant to be a DIY guide on deck building.



You don’t need to be a great artist to design a great looking garden. The design tricks and techniques you’ll learn in this book are simple yet highly effective.



About the Author



Rachel Mathews has been a garden designer for 20 years. She has designed hundreds of beautiful gardens in the UK. She has also designed gardens in the USA and Spain. As well as designing, Rachel now teaches garden design and has written a series of ‘how to’ garden design books and online courses. She teaches a very simple method that enables anyone to create a stunning garden.

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