A Backyard Trellis -Portland, Oregon
This trellis was designed out of the need for a shaded back yard area, for seasonal family dinners and hosting parties. Its simple conception is based on idea that it could be made with smaller members one person could handle with ease and assemble in place with only the use of simple tools. The trellis is designed as a kit of parts that can be removed for maintenance purposes and in the future completely disassembled so the members could be recycled and used for other needs.

under construction

summer afternoon

beam / purlin

wood plugs

purlin saddles

purlin saddles

saddle detail


purlin in saddle

purlin detail

base detail