What could be cozier warm family circle, when after work all dine at the same table or drink tea in the day, and even in the fresh air? What could be carefree friendly party with wine a skewer in the depths of the garden, under the thick canopy of trees? Where you can be alone with yourself solitude to relax and enjoy the silence? Nothing will create so many scripts for relaxation, a garden gazebo, in the name of which is based on the most happy moments of your life — talk — communication with family and friends, communing with nature. Especially nice to be spending time in the gazebo, lovingly built with his own hands.
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General principles of self-construction
A gazebo with their hands — very affordable task for those who know how little tinkering and ready to be creative and imagination. Initially, select a good place to build the gazebo and prepare the site for development. After a few painstaking stage of laying the Foundation, consider the design of the frame, based on their ideas of the arrangement of the arbor and the material selected for its implementation. Erect the walls of the gazebo, if you want it more closed, or build a low fencing if you want to achieve the airiness of the design.
The final phase of construction — the formation of the roof of the gazebo, you can use a wide range of materials, from shingles and polycarbonate, to thatch and wooden shingles. And last — the interior of the gazebo should be stylistically consistent with its architectural design, which is better to use materials of natural origin, present in the decoration of the walls. So, where do you start a self build?
Step #1 — choose location
Depending on the purposes for which built roofed for privacy or for a noisy feast, family tea parties or candlelit dinners, this building is being built or in close proximity to the main house, or «hiding» in a remote corner of the garden.
It is very important that this small architectural form organically fit into the landscape of a garden plot and supported the decision style of the main house. This is especially essential if selected for the gazebo place in the open area, close enough to the main structure. The gazebo, lost in the depths of the garden, can exist outside the bindings to the house — here it is important only that it blends seamlessly with the natural surroundings — trees, shrubs, ponds and lawn.
And, of course, make sure from the gazebo was a nice looking form — it could be a pond, flowerbed, group of trees, a view deep into the forest or meadows adjacent to your site.
A gazebo made of stone with thatched roof as if they had stood on this spot, organically merged with the pine forest
Picturesque gazebo in the form of a pergola of vines and roots perfectly with a little neglected garden, located in the middle of a green lawn
If the gazebo located in the midst of the garden, which naturally protects from sun, rain and wind, then another version of it posted in the open infield, requires a more thoughtful approach. Here you need to worry about that on the leeward side was a fence, a house wall or landing in a Bush, was laid paths leading to the gazebo and the entrance to it was oriented so that one did not have to work around the building before you get there.
Step #2 — build the Foundation and framework
Despite the abundance of original solutions for decorating the gazebo in the country or the land adjacent to a private home, the construction of the Foundation-the Foundation under a building is the most important point.
Pier Foundation is the best base for the gazebo that does not require land levelling and time-consuming excavation
For such small buildings, like gazebos, are simplified types of foundations, easily erected their own — tape, columnar, pile, less — monolithic.
The simplest design of a framework of timber
The frame for the gazebo can be made of wooden beams, metal profiles or reinforcement. The main condition of the configuration of the gazebo — its openness and airiness, combined with the natural environment, that is, the walls should not be completely blind, lined with brick or stone. Unless you are going to make it a BBQ then this option would be better.
Step #3 — installation of roofs and roofing works
The easiest way to cover the gazebo with shingles, as shown in this video example:
Extraordinary design ideas for garden gazebos
Option #1 — an arbor out of plastic bottles
You may be interested in how to build a gazebo with their hands out of very simple materials, literally lying under their feet. Look to the usual plastic bottles that go nowhere, would not seem to apply, but a pity to throw away all the time it seems that somewhere they come in handy. You can easily use a bottle made of plastic as building material for country pavilions, and easily build it yourself.
Here, of course, can not do without the mandatory stages of construction of Foundation, frame and roof, which will require both financial and labor costs. Walls this gazebo with their hands, made from plastic bottles that not only is cost free, and will serve as a good protection against the sun and rain.
Contrasting combination of transparent and brown plastic bottles emphasizes the uniqueness of the picturesque gazebo in country style
Will simplify the task of building the gazebo Foundation of ready-made metal screw piles that can be their own into the ground, making the ground under the gazebo just in one day. Frame the easiest way is to make a profile of a metal corner, square or pipes, having welded with the welding unit subassemblies.
Plastic bottles are strung on metal rods, which are then placed between the lower and the upper frame of the framework. An important condition for the formation of a harmonious structure is the selection of bottles of the same shape and size, color can be varied — this will give the gazebo a unique flavor.
Option #2 — a gazebo made of glass bottles
In addition to plastic bottles, another non-traditional material for the construction of a gazebo with your own hands can be a glass container, which can be almost nothing to buy at the collecting depots.
Garden gazebo in art Nouveau style with flowing shapes and abundance of glass, now echoes with the famous gardens of gaudí
So, build a gazebo with their hands out glass bottles. The principle of construction of the buildings is the same as that of brick — bottles stacked in rows, which are fastened together with cement mortar.
Spilling out your imagination, combining different shape and color glass bottle, you can build a gazebo charm both outside and inside
Bottles are bottoms out, and necks — inside the gazebo. Given that the bottle is hard to connect the corners of the building, with their help you can put some fragments of the walls, giving the gazebo an unusual sound — a shimmering glass surfaces will sparkle in the sun like a crystal.
Option #3 — a gazebo made of old trunks
Interesting and quite economical option of gazebos for the garden with your own hands can be a building using the trunks and boughs of old trees.
In the garden there is always outdated trees that have ceased to bear fruit and require cutting. The export of logs is often fraught with difficulties and unavoidable costs, but not in a hurry to get rid of fruit wood — it has the beautiful curves of the trunk and the texture that makes it an excellent building material for gazebo.
The trunk and branches can be cleaned from the bark, which in powdered form is also useful in the household in the winter it is possible to sprinkle the bushes of plants prone to winterkill.The tree trunk is going to create the pillars, the columns for the pergola, and large branches for fencing, railings and balusters. Most likely, one tree is not enough, you will need two, maybe three trunks for the formation of four columns with a height of 2.5 m.
The twisted trunks of old trees with knots and rough surface, used for the construction of the gazebo, giving it a forest hut
For the construction of this picturesque gazebos go in the course of not only the trunk of the tree, but the hemp used to create a pier Foundation
Wooden columns are fixed at the corner points of pier Foundation, held in place by upper and lower piping made of timber. The old wood should be treated with waterproof coatings and lacquering to achieve a desired color and protect from future cracks. A logical continuation of the style decision forest «the hut on chicken legs» will be a roof from plant materials — shingles or reed mats.
Option #4 — gazebo of cement mortar
Unusual for the garden may be the construction of a gazebo with your own hands with the help of usual cement mortar. The hardest part of this embodiment, the arrangement of the pavilions is the creation of a rigid frame of the armature, the mesh, netting or finished reinforcing structures, which required bending and welding. In the preparation phase of the framework, you can refer to specialists, and then to unleash the imagination.
Unusual tent gazebo with stone and cement mortar is reminiscent of a quaint piece of rock, which blended in with the forest landscape
Preparing a solution closer to dense, gradually, in small portions, throw it on the reinforcement design, and then drying to form bizarre shapes of the columns and walls of the gazebos. With a solution you can simulate the intertwined trunks of trees, lianas, fantastic plant forms, creating a look of exotic plants, as if invented by nature.
On hot summer days, a gazebo in the back garden and around the cascading waterfall will give a welcome coolness and privacy
This gazebo can make a fantastic and unearthly forms, resembling space ship, if you apply a metal part or fragmentarily to expose the reinforcement cage. The roof needs to be metal or plastic — suitable corrugated sheet or transparent polycarbonate.
Option #5 — the arbor of reed mats and vines
Wonderful decoration of the pond, lake or artificial marshes in your area will become a garden gazebo with your own hands from cane, reeds, vines.
The perfect solution for gazebo using natural materials such as cane and vine
Of these plant materials can be performed as the walls of the gazebo in the form of wickerwork and the roof, representing the plane of the finished folded reed or reed mats. Such building will naturally blend in with the natural environment, especially with water, because the reeds and cane — the traditional inhabitants of this environment.
Gazebo on the waterfront with thatched roof — a sample of the harmonious Union of landscape design with the environment
The use of such plants with hollow stems, for construction, is the key to a comfortable microclimate in the gazebo — balanced moisture, heat protection and effective ventilation.
Option #6 — «alive» gazebo for garden
A glance at your garden plot, you may ask yourself how to make a pergola with your own hands, without any other elements in the garden landscape, in addition to plant. The most affordable, but at the same time, the most time consuming solution would be to create a gazebo with plants, trees or shrubs.
A specially formed and trimmed trees create original roofs for garden gazebos
This gazebo does not require complex building structures in the form of Foundation, frame and roof, as it consists only from specially grown species of dwarf, dwarf or weeping tree plants. Various species of willow, Rowan, willow planted, often in a circle. Trunks and crowns of such plants are formed and forwarded, as you grow in the right direction — toward the center, creating a vegetable roof gazebos.
Openwork frames gazebos in combination with climbing plants give to a garden or landscape completeness and harmony
This gazebo will naturally fit into the landscape area and will be a shady place to relax on a Sunny open lawn in front of the house. Only the creation of such herbal composition will require a lot of patience and time. A more simple option «live» arbors can serve as planting climbing plants of grapes, ivy, roses on the outer perimeter of its frame formed of wooden beams, metal profiles or farms. In this case, it is important to achieve complete cover-up designs in the Bush, to create the impression of its absence.
A bright accent to embellish a garden gazebo in the solemn day, can become «bunches» balloons, simulating grapes
Option #7 — garden furniture from wooden pallets
Innovative solutions for the gazebo is the use of Euro-pallets made of wood for decorating the walls. Such wooden pallets, painted in bright colours, will create not only a distinctive flavor, but would be a good solution for walls is environmentally friendly, promotes good air access into the interior of the gazebo.
If you buy ready — how to avoid mistakes?
Analysis of 10 popular mistakes when choosing ready-made gazebos can be viewed on this video:
