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Outdoors > Patios > How to Build a Pergola

Learn how to build a free-standing pergola to add charm and shade to your garden.

Wrap string around the post and extended it as a side marker, parallel with the stake and at right angles to the two-by-two. Bring the string off the inside edge of the stake.
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