While the concrete sets, prepare your pressure-treated lumber. Measure and drill pilot holes to prevent the wood from splitting when attaching it to your cedar posts. Assemble the top frame by attaching the 2x4s onto the cedar posts using deck screws, ensuring everything is level and square. ...
Indeed, the lattice is the one "fixing" things – it provides privacy fencing for yards, serves as a blank canvas for clinging vines and ivy, helps climbing vegetables to reach new heights, keeps out unwanted critters, and functions as the main building material for decorative arbors, trellise...
The blocks are beveled so that they look like cut stone, and that was less expensive and stylish. I got the idea from George Washington's home at Mt. Vernon, the exterior looks like stone, but was actually wood. We spent a lot of time at salvage yards. That's where I found some t...