Gazebo do it yourself: 7 tips for proper design

The country gazebo provides a comfortable stay, a pleasant pastime with friends and close on the homeland. Numerous online shopping store offers from buying ready-made garden gazebos, but, unfortunately, not all offered options are able to satisfy personal wishes and preferences.

Exit in this situation: create a gazebo with your own hands. Knowing some secrets and subtleties of garden construction constructs will help spend work quickly and efficiently.

How to construct a garden gazebo scheme

We make a placement scheme. Before deciding on the installation site of the garden gazebo, you need to carefully view the site plan. Having studied where the house, nozpostroy (baths, garage) are located, and trees are growing and garden tracks are laid, it is not difficult to decide what kind of place the garden gazebo will look best.

Important: The distance from the arbor to the house should not be less than five meters, and if a fireplace or a branded fireplace in the gazebo, then at least eight meters.

Also, experienced builders are recommended to build a gazebo in the depths of the garden, leaving the perennial plants around it. In the future, the trees will provide a shadow and a beautiful view around the construction.

Determine the size and functional purpose . The gazebo is necessary, first of all, for a comfortable stay, because its size should be such that people (five to six people) are fluent in it, as well as garden furniture (tables, shops, armchairs). Standard dimensions of such a gazeb are 3.0 * 4.0 m.

ATTENTION: If the fireplace is planned in the gazebo, then 0.75 * 1.2 m is additionally taken into account.

We define the form. Garden gazebos are different in shape. The easiest option is a rectangular arbor.

ATTENTION: When transferring the parameters of the circuit to the site, it is necessary to ensure that the angles are exactly 90, the diagonal of the rectangle was equal.

Secrets of constructing multifaceted designs of garden gazebo. It is enough to remember a few lessons from the school year of geometry, that the hexagon consists of six equilateral triangles or two equal trapeziums and the problem of building a multifaceted arbor drawing will disappear by itself.
Blackcaps of an octagonal arbor. Make a drawing complicated in the form of a gazebo with eight angles, if you use some secrets. First, the base of the design is declined to simple shapes. For this, two perpendicularly intersecting lines (corresponding to the width and length of the construction), which builds a rectangle. The second rectangle is built on the same principle, which is placed perpendicular to the first. Corners of rectangles are connected. As a result, the abuse of the foundation of the future gazebo is obtained.
Create a drawing of the foundation. Most often for garden gazebo uses a columnar or tape type of foundation. In addition to the width parameters and the length of the foundation, the types of construction materials, the diagram displays additionally the location of the doors, windows, large functional elements (for example, mangal, chimney, fireplace).
P Roster roof. The scheme describes the methods for fastening all the elements of the roof, nodes are drawn.