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Outdoors > Garden > How to Build a Wood Arbor for Garden or Yard

Learn how to construct a cedar garden arbor with built-in benches.

Tap a small nail into the wide face of the beam as close to each of these two reference marks as you can get without splitting the edge of the wood. Tap another nail at the exact center of the beam?s length about 4-inches upwards from the bottom edge. Drive these three nails in securely, but leave most of the nail protruding. Repeat this process to mark the top of the arch, but place the center nail at the top center of the canopy beam. Drop down about 4-inches from the top edge of the beam and drive the two outer nails aligned exactly with the outer nails on the bottom edge of the beam. Note: These measurements will differ if you are not using a two-by-ten beam.
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