If you have a fuddy-duddy 1920s house in need of some trellising, outdoor furniture or an arbor take a look at Beautifying the Home Grounds by the Southern Pine Association, part of the always useful Building Technology Heritage Library on archive.org.
I’m using Beautifying the Home Grounds as a design resource to replace the horrible flipper fence I installed a few years ago and the aging entrance arbor that fence is connected to. I’m thinking of going with arbor number 13.
I’ve already done the rendering in Sketchup. Boring, yes. But sometimes boring is just what your house wants.
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Ha!’fuddy-duddy house’ Perfect description! And if the house doesn’t like what you are doing your 1/2 hour project will take 3 days or even 2 weeks and cost big buck that you never planned for. “Been there, done that!” My house now gets what it wants! (and it costs less!)