What’s more important for a beach house than outdoor space? The decks and patios at Drew and Jonathan’s houses are in need of some serious creativity and aren’t about to make their jobs easy as they near the end of the competition. 

The brothers asked their friends Karen E. Laine and Mina Starsiak, hosts of HGTV’s Good Bones, to use their mother-daughter bond and flipping expertise judge the decks and patios challenge.

With $20,000 budgeted for his outdoor spaces, Jonathan has an ambitious plan to greatly expand the square footage of the upper deck and give it a modern feel to coincide with the rest of the home. 

This is quite literally not the same deck. Jonathan replaced all of the old decking with composite boards, which look just as nice as wood but happen to be more durable.