Two years ago, I purchased a building, but I wasn’t in love with the exterior. Not only did it lack curb appeal, it was poorly insulated and the single pane glass windows leaked air and water.
R: with the new front
We couldn’t center the new windows the way that I would have liked and I was limited on size due to structural supports. I thought a modern ladder trellis would be perfect to balance the negative space on each side of the windows.
Materials Needed:
- (4) 2x2x8 pressure treated boards
- (5) 1x2x8 pressure treated boards
- wood glue
- 2″ brad nails
Tools Needed:
- Saw
- Nail gun
- Spacers
Directions:
The trellis were super easy to make. It only took 20 minutes to make two of them.
I determined that they needed to be 7ft tall to fit the area where I wanted to place them. Then I cut my (4) 2x2s down to 7 ft and I decided to cut 18 cross pieces out of the 1x2s at a width 23.75″.
I wanted a more modern ladder look, so I decided to do three sections of three boards. I started by lining up my two uprights and putting spacer blocks between them to keep them square.
I then put the cross pieces over top of my uprights. I used a second set of spacer blocks to make sure they were evenly spaced.
I added wood glue and then nailed the pieces in place using my brad nailer.
Once all 9 cross pieces were attached, I let the glue dry and then stained it with Briarsmoke stain and sealed it with spar urethane.
I left a bigger space towards the bottom so that I could put a planter I front of the trellis.
This project was super easy, but really helped to balance the negative space on each side of the windows and I can’t wait to add some solar lights and to vines to them!
I hope you’ll try to make one too!