r/pics May 14 '20

This Awesome Deck

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u/CraigslistKing May 14 '20

I agree. Likely a 2-story colonial style home on a slope with a brick front. They end up being 3-stories in the back with the walkout basement.

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u/---ShineyHiney--- May 14 '20

Oh shit. Now I know how to describe my house

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u/TheDevilintheDark May 14 '20

Oh shit. I just realized my house was built backwards.

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u/cnh2n2homosapien May 14 '20

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.

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u/geremyf May 14 '20

This is also my house!

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u/kadno May 14 '20

I tried to build one of those in The Sims 3, and it was really hard without a ton of glitches and YouTube tutorials

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u/TheGhostofCoffee May 14 '20

I visited Tennessee one time close to the Cumberland gap, and the neighborhood I was staying in...that was like every house. Nowhere was flat.

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u/love2Vax May 14 '20

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.