Ok, I laid out a piece of cardboard as a template for how I'd like the step to look, for placement.
Then I made the frame with the blood soaked 2x4s from the previous post.
Decked.
You may notice that I used a three six inch wide boards and one skinny one. At the start of this process when we were deciding what we wanted the deck to *look* like, I got some four inch wide deck boards and some six inch wide deck boards. We went with the six inch stock. I used one of the leftover four inchers to fill the frame nicely.
Here's the end result.
A happy step.