Pergola Wavertree.
The free pergola plans are intended to show beginners how to build a pergola – from getting ideas, finding tools and materials, and last, but not least, easy step by step construction, creating a low cost, beautiful, free-standing wooden garden feature to enjoy for many years to come.
Building one of these wonderful structures can be very satisfying, as well as great fun, and you definitely won’t need an engineering degree to understand them!
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Pergola Wavertree.
Most can be made by adapting the principles used in the free pergola plans. Some of us, however, need a little more help with building these more unusual designs.
Pergola Wavertree.
Adapting the Free Pergola Plans
The example design is just that, an example, with easy to change elements to suit your own unique style preferences and situation. Simple or elaborate, large or small, build it as you wish!
The free pergola plans will still work for any shape or size, even if the look is significantly different – using thicker wood, making rafter tails longer, changing the shape of the structure and the decorative rafter tail ends, having rafters running in only one direction and closer together, using a raised rafter style, or having rafters sitting fully on top of the supports. There are so many things you can do.
See Adapting The Plans for more ideas and details.
Here is one that has been adapted from the free pergola plans, with raised rafters, and purlins for extra shade…