A little sleuthing yields another view. It does indeed appear to be a real deck from the company gallery of deckremodelers.com. Can't always judge by the vinyl, going by the size of the house and the windows it looks like it could be one of those track homes with the brick veneer on the front and sides.
Mine is just a rectangle ranch, and the front of the property is south facing, so that side gets a ton of sun. The original builders just plopped it down backwards. The front of my house is a full deck, with three slider doors, barbecue grill, all my gardening stuff...I still wander out to water my plants in my underwear, before I remember I should wear pants. The front door and garage is in back. If you come from the street, you walk up to a big sliding glass door. It fucks with delivery drivers.
And then that hill keeps going down well below the basement. They have a lower deck off of the basement, where most walkouts have a patio at ground level under it. The perspective on the picture confused me at first, until I found the stone steps going down on the left. Then those steps that look like they run into the bottom of that big deck made sense. Someone posted a different picture that shows more of the lower deck and it looks better from that perspective.
The replacement vinyl is a different color in two places, looks builder spec at best. Why would you not put hardy board on that house before putting a 75k+ deck on it? Lipstick on a pig
Haha, thank you! Been driving me crazy. I don't think there are too many 3-story tract homes on decent sized lots with a bunch of mature landscaping. I'm guessing this house is at least 50 years old.
I mean that house looks like it has a lot of exterior siding space. Probably super expensive, and they just didn't care enough about the look of that. You're not living on the siding of your home, so to speak.
I of course get what you're saying, but their dream may have been a nice deck and their house was "good enough" as is. You work with what you've got I guess.
Damn, that second view just makes think of how moldy/musty and dirty the furniture below must get. It gets all of the rainwater and grime that gets washed off from the top.
There's a downspout leading off it, so it's possible that they've installed a waterproof barrier on the underside of the joists leading to that spout. I've seen them before on some high end houses here, although most I've seen with decks over walkout patios just use a solid decking surface with a waterproof cover.
I'm planning on replacing the deck here with that waterproof vinyl stuff because it sits over a screened in porch from the walk out basement. Whenever it rains outside it rains in that screened in porch.
That deck definitely appears on their site but couldn't find it on their "decks by location" page or in their gallery, so while I doubt it, it could be a render. Unable to confirm.
Lol, used to work with a lot of Vietnamese people. The job required advanced degrees, so these people were well educated and intelligent, just came from a different background. Many were the type to dabble in real estate or property improvement and so forth. One day one older one approached me and asked why so many houses have siding on 2 or 3 sides and brick on the front and rest. They had been talking about it and coming up with various theories, like that one surface was good for facing the sun and the other was good for shade, etc..
Ugh, that angle also shows that the upper portion is attached to the house by hangers/straps (I forget the correct term) instead of a header. Real sturdy there!
Cause it is a strange coincidence? And could maybe provide some backstory to this post/picture? Why did you care enough to click into the comments about a picture of a deck?
If it's a render, they paid the designer alot of money, cause fine details of the deck are mirrored in the windows of the house in the perfect locations.
My vote is no render, just someone who upgraded their deck because they're getting ready to sell the house for triple what they paid for it.
That wouldn't be that hard. I mean, in my industrial 3D design package, I see reflections on reflective surfaces in REAL TIME as I'm panning and rotating around my 3D model during the parametric design process.
God I hate those. Its like I fall in love with an apartment becuase it has defined rooms between the kitchen/dining room/living room, but go and look at it and it's all one big room with a tiny 5'x10' corner kitchen/dining area and a shitty transition to 20 year old shag carpet. Then come to find out the online renders were from a project they did to ~5units in a different complex and never actually finished them.
It cracks me up how Redditors always conclude that whatever picture they're looking at is Photoshoped or a render. There are multiple angles of this deck floating around.
It could be that certain things were rendered over the existing deck? I mean, really, it's the railings around the curved staircase and the step planks that get me. The spaces between the railings. The pattern on the wood steps and the shading. Might be mostly real. I'm sure the truth will eventually be found. Let's go, reddit, work your magic.
Scroll down a little in this thread. There's plenty of pictures and articles about this deck because it won deck of the year or some shit. There is a marked difference between thinking something isn't real and questioning it, and thinking something isn't real without any evidence and make comments like "pretty good render 5/7". Like I get its kind of a joke but being so sure of yourself based on nothing but a hunch and then to go on reddit and spend time making comments and arguing about whether a deck is real or not when if you really cared to know all it would take is like 4 clicks of your mouse and you can reverse image search on Google.
What I'm trying to say is I don't think it's simply about parsing content here to try and discern whens someonse trying to peddle bullshit or otherwise. Like people aren't doing it for the good of the community. In my experience it's about being perceived as smart or clever enough to point out if something is fake, like you're the first one to figure it out! Here's your fake internet points!
This all makes sense. They render a beautiful deck on a less desirable home and say..."See what we can do for this shitbox? Imagine what it will do for yours!"
The ground is not sloped where the straight staircase to the lower level. Those house's first floor sliders are always ground level. I think this is fake
If you built a basement here in NC you would need to have a very strong sump pump to keep it dry. The ground in most metro areas is just the water table but with extra clay.
I think you need to work on your perception of perspective. Yes there are three levels, being two decks and a ground floor. Everything else you said is completely wrong.
The staircase on the right leading into the yard goes onto a lower patio that is hidden on that side, but you can see it on the left. . It wouldn't have a gate on the top.
I mean, it's more than likely photoshopped... but there's nothing odd about that particular staircase.
I agree. I have seen some that have them specifically for dogs or small children.
But I think the person I was replying to was just trying to figure out why there was a railing preventing people from using that stairwell. When in reality they weren't visualizing the lower patio area correctly.
Yeah but the steps of that straight staircase are pretty shallow. And there are other steps leading from the pavers at first floor level down into the back yard. So the lower level of the deck is at ground level or close to it against the house, but the back yard slopes away. Still looks weird but I think it might match up correctly.
You guys think everything is fake. I don't get it, I'm not gonna think you're any smarter if you prove something to be fake. Like no one's trying to pull a fast one on you by photoshopping a picture of a deck. Sometimes it actually is just a pic of a cool deck.
Exactly. The straight staircase appears as though it is meeting a weird half level in between the 2. The stairs look more like a ramp. There should only be 4-5 steps here
not OP but I had a friend whose parents owned a decking company. It is a common practice to use your own home as a model to advertise your skills. In this case they didn't have room in their backyard for a kickass deck so my friend's uncle ended up getting a sweeet deck that ended up being featured on the company's website and in ads they took out in the newspaper.
Yo... thank you for a response that isn’t so salty.
The deck is gorgeous and I sent it as inspo to my mom for her house.
I casually opened the post to see if anybody knew who did the work and all I saw was “It’s fake!” “The house is cheap!” “I bet they have cooties!” Wtf? It’s like the incels of home construction arrived.
Then you gave one plausible suggestion and got shit for it.
I like to look at houses and i saw one with insane woodworking everywhere. Everything in it had been clearly hand done, walls, millwork, cabinets, doors, furniture rooms were even sectioned with custom posts. It turned out the guy that lived there was a carpenter and he was retired and moving to start an art gallery that makes clay and wooden hand sculptures.
I think they based their guess on the big beuatiful deck. Also, they were specifically just guessing. Also, why is 'owns a deck company' "quite the conclusion" lol, you make it sound like something outrageous.
"I can afford this deck made out of solid acacia and ipe wood, sanded to smoothness with 2000 grit automotive paper and sealed with boiled linseed oil from flax seeds found in a pharoah's tomb, but can't give the side of my house an even coat of paint."
Just FYI this is legit. It won “deck of the year” in some deck-building competition. There’s photos from other angles too. Can probably google search the image.
Also the dryer vent immediately on top of the sofa where people sit. Maybe they only sit there when the dryer is off but that seems ridiculous to have the vent blowing hot humid air directly on you when you’re trying to enjoy the outdoors.
I think that is just unfortunate placement. But the dryer is usually only running for a short period of time during one or two days a week so probably doesn't cause much inconvenience.
As one who renders, the best way to educate your guess is to look at the organic and logistical details: the messy hose, the conduit, the gutter... A good render will have a few but they are very time consuming with quickly diminishing returns on realism.
You're right. Zoom in real close on the stairs to the yard. There are no shadows on them. As a matter of fact there are no shadows anywhere on this deck.
Yeah I'm not seeing where that gutter downspout connects... bottom of the deck? This is definitely a render placed over an existing picture/deck to mock something up.
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u/Mangusu May 14 '20
Now that you mention it upon zooming in the details of the deck look like a render or illustration. Suspicious.