Summer lounge

[antonello]

I live in the countryside, in Sardinia the climate is mild throughout most of
year, my house has a garden around it, and I was missing a covered but open area to spend the summer and to enjoy the green space around.

So I decided to build what you Britons call a Summer lounge, if I remember well (sorry, my English is not at all good...).

Some photos:

Hard work.....

inside, finished:

outside :

Some more photos, but with comments in.....Italian, can be found here in a pdf document:

http://www.2shared.com/document/3c5S-0T ... _pubb.html

And this the table for ditto (3,45 x 0,90 x 0,75 h):

Cheers for now

Antonello

 

[monkeybiter]

Wow! That's a huge and impressive construction. It must have taken some muscle lifting it all into place. It looks great. Nice rich coloured finish.

 

[Steve Maskery]

Hi Antonello
That is very nice indeed. Very impressive, I'm not sure that I would feel up to the challenge.
Ciao
Steve

 

[mailee]

That is a wonderful piece of work there. Looks magnificent! How on earth did you lift those huge pieces into place? :shock:

 

[Orcamesh]

Belissimo Antonello!!! 8)

That is one **** of a project, there seems to be some cranes missing from the photos!

 

[antonello]

Yessssss.....

I had to hire a crane to place the trusses on top of the pillars.....

Otherwise, the construction was quite straightforward.

But I have to confess: I'm a Civil Engineer, with a specialization in design of wooden structures.....generally I just design them, in this case I also build it......