Ben's
Deck.
Hardwood deck set into existing planting — joinery-grade timber, isolated footings, countersunk fixings.
Ben's Deck started as a small commission and ended up work the team is proud of. The brief was simple — extend the home into the garden — but the constraints were not. The platform had to thread through mature root structure without disturbing it, and survive monsoon rot indefinitely.
Modern Lao Homes specified hardwood at the joinery stage rather than the finish stage, and the difference shows. The frame sits on isolated footings, boards are spaced for thermal movement, every fixing is countersunk. The finished surface reads as one continuous plane.
From the house, the deck reads as part of the architecture. From the garden, as a quiet horizontal line. Both readings were intentional.
