gsibert

I'm just a weekend warrior, but if you own a plastic house, then synthetic it is. The visceral effect will be the same. Funky! Why would you want to break up that beautiful experience with wood. LOL.

If you own or build a cedar clapboard home, have wood muttins dividing the lites in the windows, have a cedar shake roof, all cedar trim on the house, you don't then use synthetic for the decking. I've been to homes in CT that are 90% clear cedar and then you walk on a deck or entry porch, or touch the railing, and it's plastic! Blows the whole experience.

I used mahogany and it looks great. Yes you need to maintain it, but its beautiful.