April 24, 2010

Beautiful Pergola

Our pergola has been something we have wanted since we moved into our house 3.5 years ago and this past weekend, it was finally built!!



Matt built it with the help from my Dad. I do need to mention that my Mom, Sister and I also played a huge part in it by staining every piece of wood before it was put up. However, we don't have any funky tan lines/burns like Matt, who basically fried while putting the top on the pergola. He is in a lot of pain in this photo.

Here is what it looked like when we started

Staining every single piece of wood. There was a LOT!!

6x6 posts are installed and the 2x8's are going up (lumber talk)


The 1x6's are installed on the top

Then the 2x2's were installed on top. This process took the longest... about 2 full days. This is where Matt got burnt by sitting on the top for 8 hrs.
The finished project
My design I drew which was then transferred to the boards and cut out
Who wants to come over for a BBQ?!!

2 comments:

Sarah said...

It's so pretty! You guys are so handy! It makes me uber jealous! I wanna come BBQ!! :)

J said...

I do I do I do!!!!! Looks amazing!