SAT,
Here are a couple of pics of my deck, or should I say my kid's deck. They built about 60-70 % of it with me watching and doing some of the finish angle cuts and connection.
The beach chair is only 4' 3" wide. Its narrow. At 6', it becomes the walkway.
The pic with the angle deck and the tall glass window is a house I flipped up my street with all kinds of hill side foundation issues. We had to put in a new foundation on the entire side of the home. The "walkway" is 5' wide. Notice the old deck boards. I built the angle section so a table and a bit of outdoor living can be had for my new homers to enjoy the view. That section is about 12' in width going out from the house. There's an other section like it on the end of the house.
A couple more pic of the underside and the unfinished hand railing. Raw Ipe, needs lots of oil. My deck goes out from the house 14'.
