Memories of our Second Summer - Building up the Roof Deck!

We spent our 2nd summer here building up the roof deck. What was once around 80 square foot of deck on the roof was expanded to a little over 300 square feet that summer. We built an expansion of decking, 5 cedar planters and cedar lattice screens to help ease the wind blasts on the roof.

This is the original part of the rooftop deck. We added the lattice screen, cedar planters, bench and chimenia this summer.











This is the part of the deck that we added on, it's over 30 feet long along our 4th floor penthouse room.





We planted some flowering red dogwood, hardy hydrangea and curly willow in the planters along the east wall. The willow was actually taken from fresh cuttings which were rooted in water over a period of a few weeks.

The planters along the north wall were planted up with coreopsis, babies breath, cosmos, morning glory, sweet peas, regular (eating) peas, eggplant, regular and cherry tomatoes, onions and even a grape vine. The northwest section of the rooftop deck is what we refered to as the "vegetable garden" since that's where we concentrated all the veggies for maximum sun exposure.

We built 2 cedar Adirondack chairs for the roof deck. (Unfortunately a few crazy hail storms over the past 2 years have left their mark on the chairs in the form of hundreds of tiny round dents). Once we move and have time we plan to sand the chairs back down to the wood and refinish them.