05/09/2026
🏆 NADRA’s National+ Deck Competition 2025
Pool Deck
🥈 Second Place Winner
Majestic Outdoors
Partner: TimberTech
This may be the most interesting, stressful and fun project that created new ideas. Original design for this poolscape was a patio, with planning, and permitting approvals we discovered it would exceed the impervious allowance. Now let’s make it a deck and it’s challenge as the grade was changing to avoid adding railings, and the underside would have limited accessibility. Drainage and ventilation will be important but we need a more sustainable material for the framing. What framing material is going to give a long lasting performance, is the questions. Aluminum framing was the idea and after some head scratching we said let’s go for it. With limited use on alternative framing we embarked on the build of a lifetime to create a curved deck out of aluminum framing, even the manufacturer was unsure how to do it. Through the teams determination of the main build it now came down to the how to curve the perimeter. We ended up using sheets of thick gauge aluminum to weld and make perfect curves we could template and build forms for on our deck board curves. Ideas, Determination, Dedication, Talent equals Success, now we have a one in a million build!
