Trees grow. Rocks don't. Keep this in mind when building your deck around them. Say you've selected an appropriate site for your backyard retreat but there are mature trees or monolithic stones in the way. Turn what might first seem like obstacles into assets by incorporating them into the deck design for a unique connection to your surroundings. Chopping down the towering trees here would have been a crime, so the owners of this California deck built around them.
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