 Now, if you want wood and you can afford it, cedar is a great choice since it's naturally weather and insect resistant, and it weathers to a nice kind of mellow gray tone. Composite decking, that generally does require little or no upkeep, but it's considerably more expensive than most wood decking, and you're not likely to recoup that in terms of sort of value added from a sales point of view. But from a convenience point of view, it's fantastic, and it looks great.