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title: "Design Ideas"
url: https://ipedeckingsource.com/IpeDeckingDesign
description: "Applications recorded for Ipe lumber and decking: pergolas, docks and slips, porch flooring, stair details, curved handrails, gates, siding, benches and borders."
published: 2026-08-17
updated: 2026-08-17
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# Design Ideas

Published 2026-08-17

Applications recorded for the material, beyond a flat rectangular deck.

- Pergola built over a pool deck in Ipe lumber.
- Ipe boards run vertically to enclose a staircase and create storage beneath it.
- Boat docks and marine work, where the density and moisture resistance are the point.
- Tongue and groove porch flooring inside a screened porch.
- Stair detail built from decking drops rather than from new stock.
- A single piece of 1x6 decking bent to form the radius on a handrail.
- Swing gates framed and clad in Ipe.
- Covered wrap around porch in decking rather than flooring.
- Hand made bench built from half ripped 5/4x6 decking.
- Black Ipe laid as a border accent against the standard grade.
- Ship lap style siding in 1x6 decking, where a lap profile is not needed.
- Boat slips and marina walkways.
- 4x4 posts dadoed to receive the sub-rails.

Several of these use the same stock in different sizes: the bench and the stair detail come out of drops, the curved handrail is a single deck board, and the siding is the same 1x6 board laid vertically.