So we saw these Platta decking tiles at Ikea
and said "what the heck." Just laying them out on the ground didn't feel all that satisfactory. A frame of some sort was called for. I picked up a bunch of pressure treated 1x2 strips and cut to size. Then came the drudgery, cutting notches in each strip so they can all fit together and make a flat, square frame. With a new mortising bit in the router and a jig I built previously things went about as fast as could be expected. The jig:
The frame being glued up:
And one more in a real life setting:
