Hi all,
Trying my hand at posting a pic for the first time. Wanted to see how to do it. Be careful though, one of them is really big cause I didn’t know how small to make the pic. So one pic has been reduced and one has not. They are of the same pic.
Anyway, the pics below are of an arbor I designed and made for a local landscaper. He participates in a home and garden show and most years has my boss help out on the hardscaping stuff (the structures and buildings). Last year we made a 30 ft tall light house. Anyway, this year he asked for an arbor with some kind of a hipped roof line. He told me the idea was to put an outdoor bed underneath. That was the extent of my instruction.
I think it turned out pretty nice though I was not totally pleased with the bed. In fact, the hanging bed was an after thought at the last minute. They were panning just some ugly single bed frame on the ground which wasn’t really even nice enough to put at the local thrift shop. I had extra lumber so I suggested hanging the bed. They liked he idea as you can see. So I only had about an hour or so to make the bed cradle and I think the corner detail is not quite right (should have been on the hip angle and more rounded off at the top and bottom). I also instructed them to hang it with really PHAT rope but you can see they just used some thin stuff from HD.
Anyway, enjoy the pic. If you want to see other angles I have more pics too. I hope they post.
Rob Kress
Edit!!!!!
See next post for pics…. manage attachments doesn’t allow you to add more attachments only delete.
Edited 3/14/2004 9:07 am ET by RobKress
Edited 3/14/2004 9:08 am ET by RobKress
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Trying my hand at posting a pic for the first time.
Uh, Rob, nice try. I got the main idea before I got impatient with dial-up download time, not to mention scanning back and forth to see what it was. If you'd resize the pictures to something about a tenth that size it'd be a whole lot easier to view.
PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Ok, here are 4 sizes for those who care to look
Have you tried the Irfan program? It will easily reduce the file size, and also converts image types.
What did you make the arbor out of? 2x10 or similar? Are those legs on the corners of the bed? Looks like something you would see in a H&G show. And you're partially right, the rope is too small...they should have used a fatter rope.Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt
The craftsman formerly known as elCid
Ed,
I am using some version of Adobe Photoshop for size reduction. And because I can literally do anything I want (too many options), I just really had no idea what size to make the photos. Which one worked best for you?
The rafters are 2 x 6 I think (I can't really remember) and the hips then I'm sure are 2 x 8. I find that the scale of all members of an arbor to be probably the most important "feature" of a nice arbor. So I try very hard to select stock sizes that will be "appropriate". All was pressure treated stock. The rafter tails were cut from 2 x 8 or 2 x 10 stock and scabbed onto the ends of the rafters with biscuits, glue, and galvanized screws. I spent a lot of time deciding to do it that way instead of something more. But in the end, the client didn't want to pay for more..... of course. The pattern for the rafter tails was made in AutoCAD and printed full scale. Then I just traced it on some masonite stock and cut out a hard pattern.
The tails on the bed are not legs. That's what I mean when I say that they don't look quite right. They were intended to compliment the tails on the arbor but ended up too steep (they are set at the rafter angle). That's why I think if they had been set at the hip angle they would have looked better.
As for the rope..... the whole idea behind this arbor feature was a little bit of fairy tale type feel. And in that case, I think they probably could not have gotten a rope that was too fat.
Still, I think the client won a first place for their entire garden display.
Rob Kress
I'm sure you got significant attention for your client. Very ambitious for a booth. Do you know what its future is?
I ran your small photo through Photoshop to resize it. I downloaded Irfanview but have yet to figure out how to get a photo into it. Luka's the expert.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Which one worked best for you? The smallest possible file size works best, as long as the qualirty remains. I think irfan reduces the file size but leaves the physical size large.
If this was for a show, why did you use PT lumber?Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. T. Roosevelt
The craftsman formerly known as elCid
Ed,
I used PT because the goal is always to sell everything at the end of the show. So the arbor I made last year sold the first day. Don't know if this one sold. In any case, we make them with a sale in mind. And along that same line, both arbors that I built could be taken apart and put back together. Although, this one would not be an easy job for just any do it yourselfer. We built the entire top section on milk crates on the shop floor. Then we lifted the entire assembly up onto the posts and apron with a fork lift.
Rob Kress