The first picture is of the deck that came with the house when we purchased it. A couple of months later we found out that the deck was built improperly and did not meet county codes. We decided to rebuild it all together instead of fixing the old one. Our title insurance paid for the cost to rebuild the old one and we put in some money to make it twice as big and go with the maintenance free ProCell Decking material. It looks so much cleaner and nicer than regular wood.