This garden arbor swing makes a great weekend project. It’s made from pressure treated posts set in the ground, and features an open beam roof and trellis on each side.

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You know those kinds of projects that maybe I think about it all week long and then you head down to the home center on Friday and pick up all the materials in Saturday. You’re all gang hoe and you get out and start working on the project and maybe finish up the loose ins on Sunday now or outside obviously. I'm about to look at a project they can provide and nice relaxing place to sit in your backyard and becomes quite a focal point. It’s a sun arbor just like the one you see behind me that I had built in my yard a couple years ago. Now this one took a little while because we have a lot of cuts that we wanted and the style of arbor that we were looking for and it took a little longer than a weekend to cost of the thing involved. We had to do a little bit of sanding, priming two coats of paint but if you use weather resistant wood and you want a more natural look, you can complete something like this in just one weekend. I built one of these on a much smaller scale for a friend of mine. It was primarily designed to support it garden swing so really it have to be that large but it did need to be sturdy. So we build each side with 4x4s and 2x6s before we stead them up in the holes where they would rest. The front and back pieces we’ve created from 2x12 with a little bevel cut on the end so add a little bit of character. Now, I like to put the basic structure together first and make sure everything is level and plumb then you can brace it to stay that way before adding concrete to the post holes. You know it saves a lot of hassle later by doing it this way. It also is very important when you’re building outside to use fasteners that are galvanized or coated so that they won’t rust overtime. On top, we’ll use 2x6s with the similar up swept cut but truthfully we didn’t plan too well because to nail and then in this tight space was pane. We might have been better for about some long screws. We’ve also cut down from one by material to create a ladder trail on either side of the arbor. Finally, we added the swing then we planted a few vines to climb up the trailer on each side, again, a nice piece of work for a weekend project.