Recently a client asked me to replace the floor on her small back porch. At 3 feet wide, it was pretty useless for anything other than collecting stuff, so she wanted to increase the width by more than a foot, plus add a wavy outer edge that would meander around a large Rose O’Sharon shrub and mimic the winding curves of her cottage garden.The customer chose 5/4 x 6 mahogany for the decking, which would provide some extra beef where the boards hung out past the band. But in order to get the cantilever, I would have to run the...