Pergola and Privacy Wall

Purchased house April 2023. Built core pergola structure July 2024 (shout out brothers and dad for help with the heavy stuff). Added privacy wall, railing, and lights April 2025. Never been a particularly handy person, but got in my head that I could do this myself and went for it. Learned a lot along the way and definitely some things that I would change or do differently even down to the stuff added this month, but overall thrilled with how it came out. Now shopping for some new patio furniture to complete the transformation! Some notes: Used cedar tone wood and black metal brackets/post mounts for aesthetic purposes. Ledger board attached directly to house. Privacy wall added because my neighbor’s have an elevated deck so they could always look down on us and we could always look up on them. Dimensions are 13ft from house to end and 20ft wide. This is one of the things I would have done differently because I really should have had closer spacing between posts for structural integrity but it survived a wind storm/tornado that knocked down half of the trees in the neighborhood last year so all worked out. Newly added privacy wall definitely secured it more with 3 posts added to north side. *Got the patio caulked to prevent any further shifting in the concrete. Happy to answer any questions! submitted by /u/jackmicek [link] [comments]

May 1, 2025 - 03:12

Purchased house April 2023. Built core pergola structure July 2024 (shout out brothers and dad for help with the heavy stuff). Added privacy wall, railing, and lights April 2025.

Never been a particularly handy person, but got in my head that I could do this myself and went for it. Learned a lot along the way and definitely some things that I would change or do differently even down to the stuff added this month, but overall thrilled with how it came out. Now shopping for some new patio furniture to complete the transformation!

Some notes: *Used cedar tone wood and black metal brackets/post mounts for aesthetic purposes.
*Ledger board attached directly to house.
*Privacy wall added because my neighbor’s have an elevated deck so they could always look down on us and we could always look up on them.
*Dimensions are 13ft from house to end and 20ft wide. This is one of the things I would have done differently because I really should have had closer spacing between posts for structural integrity but it survived a wind storm/tornado that knocked down half of the trees in the neighborhood last year so all worked out. Newly added privacy wall definitely secured it more with 3 posts added to north side.
*Got the patio caulked to prevent any further shifting in the concrete.

Happy to answer any questions!

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