No. 46 Decks · Mid-Century Modern
Tiered Timber Deck with Outdoor Dining
This tiered, multi-level timber deck features an outdoor dining set, built-in benches, flagstone paving, and potted agaves alongside a flat roof home accented with a breeze block wall.
Design notes
Mid-century modern design lines everything up with the house. Look for flat roofs and post-and-beam overhangs, walls of glass, breeze-block screens, terrazzo or large concrete pads with gravel joints, and a rectangular pool set square to the architecture. Planting is sculptural and sparse — agave, yucca, olive, citrus, a Mediterranean fan palm — and colour comes from a single accent: an orange door, turquoise water, a yellow umbrella.
What to look for
- Board direction and how it changes the apparent size
- Edges: built-in benches and planters instead of rail where allowed
- Stairs wide enough to double as seating





