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Almost finished.

Somewhere on here I'd started a blog about our gazebo. I'll have to go back and find the other blog entries.

We started out with a 10×10 tent gazebo purchased from Rona, and after the wind destroyed the frame, it became a wooden framed gazebo with the tarps for walls and roof.
The weather has been rough on the tarps and we have had to start replacing the tarps with wood.

Other than the 2×4's, we have used scrap pieces of everything and anything we could find to make it work.

The west and north walls were the first to go up, each with three windows in each. The windows are from the porch of my great-grandfather's home.

The east wall, installed last weekend contains one window: a 4' round table top that Rick saved from the garbage at his work. Rick cut some grooves in a couple 2×4''s to create the frame and then cut some 2×6 pieces to fill in the corners. We then went through our scrap pile of plywood to fill in the wall.


The West wall (sorry no pictures)
Last weekend, after finishing wall #3, we had enough time to put 1/3rd of the final wall up, with two of the old windows stacked on top of each other.

This morning, just a couple hours before my family was to arrive for our bonfire breakfast, we made the opposite end of the final wall. We had one last old window from my great-grandfather's farmhouse, one oval window scavenged from Rick's work, and one smoked glass window from a table I was tossing out.

We were putting the final nails in the plywood when our company arrived.

We had a great time in our little outdoor retreat.



And here is a picture of our chefs. Oh wait - where are they??? Hmph. We found them sitting inside by the new fireplace!



(in the background are the remnants of tarps and other fixins we'd used at our last bonfire breakfast, trying to keep everyone warm. We left it up in case we didn't get the gazebo done in time. Now, I guess we can clean it all up. The gazebo was a success.)
 
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#2 ·
Looking great and the company kept warm. At least they wern't wearing blankets. A Great job Debbie, and Rick
 
#5 ·
we had a little heater going but with the roof partially open still and no door, it wasn't doing a lot of good. We figured body heat would help but I think we had too many layers of clothing on to let the body heat out! haha.

The plan it so to put a tiny wood stove in the centre of the space, put a tin roof on the top, and as for the door, it's at my brothers (from my great-grandfather's home).
 
#8 ·
Oh it's scavenged alright.. if you saw the outside walls, they are bits and pieces of plywood - some green, some not; some in triangles, some squares, and some rectangles…
 
#12 ·
The Transformation Continues

Dec. 7/08

Our gazebo continues to transform. Rick and I laugh when we sit inside our "cloth gazebo" that we purchased for a great price. What a deal we got. Yes, we used the cloth gazebo twice, before it's twisted fate. The resurrection went from an added wooden floor, to a wooden frame, to wood/glass walls, and now to a wood roof. Our cheap gazebo has transformed in appearance as well as cost! Sheesh.

Anyway, here is our latest version of our gazebo.


(and yes, I know that only half of the front roof has lights on it…. another expense waiting for us. Just one more string of lights)

Next step will be to add shingles (or something) to the roof and barnboards to the outside walls.
 
#28 ·
It's getting closer

June 16/09

Yes, indeed, our revised "gazebo" is getting closer to being completed!

More than 4 years ago we began with something like this, as sold by Canadian Tire?


The year after the frame was destroyed (within a month of purchase, due to high winds) our journey began for a replacement gazebo. First step: we built a deck floor and built a wooden frame on which we hung the screens, walls, and roof.

The next year, the roof tore to shreds and we put up a tarp roof.

That hung on for a while but the winter winds wreaked havoc on the walls…
... and we had to replace them, one wall at a time, with wood. All the windows are found treasures - some were found in a ditch and a couple are old glass table tops.

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It was at this point that my son named the structure "a shanty"

The following year, we got tired of having to fix the tarps for every rain, wind, or snow storm and so that was replaced with a wooden roof, again covered with tarps.


This spring we added a metal roof-yippee-no more tarps!

And now… here we are at one step closer to being finished.

For the past three days, Rick spent much of his time putting old barnboards on the outside. These boards are from my great-grandfather's barn, which makes it very special.

We still have to paint the 2×4's and the underside of the roof that overhangs the edges.






And now, my son says that it is no longer a shanty and it can't be called a shack or a gazebo either. He has declared that it is now "The Club House" :)
 
#29 ·
It is turning into really unique looking gazebo.

A one of a kind piece of building artwork.

The placement of the windows looks very interesting, especially the round one.
 
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