Well, we framed the deck with interlocking brick. One year after the carpenter installed this composite deck we were tasked with building a stone patio to clean up the space. It's functional, appealing and that colour combination is hard to beat! Our client requested that the planter around the tree be round and that's a little difficult to do given the size of the material used and the tight radius. In the end we were able to come up with a solution that's really neat and the space turned out great.