Adventures in Remuddling

After putting in the first post,worked on second one, which went much quicker.

Gratuitous baby shot. Was aiming at the men, I swear! Tig’s strange headgear getup was after I reprimanded him for not wearing sunscreen.

The header pieces are still in the basement. They need to be cut in accordance to the design., then stained before attaching to the posts. So put in a 2 X 4 to hold it together for now. Here’s Tig trying to “level” the posts by hanging off one.

Finding relatively cheap white cedar in 2″x8″ sizes is nearly impossible. Our fence panels and posts are all made of white cedar, which is much less expensive than western red cedar. And unfortunately, the only 2×8 cedar I could find was western red cedar. I debated other materials, but decided to stick with cedar so everything would weather at the same rate.

So before I go and cut my expensive cedar for the arbor, I decided to buy a 2×8 pine board to use as a visual test. Just for comparison, the western red cedar cost almost 20 times more than the pine. The picture below has the pine board up as a temporary arbor.

Serena commented that it kind of looks like a Chinatown gate. Not exactly the homey look we were going for. But I assured her, that with the cross pieces, it will look better. So she approved, and off to work on the real cedar.

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