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Outdoor DIY Wood Pergola

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With more time at home (like all the time in the world right now) and gearing up for warm summer weather, Justin and I have shifted our focus on home improvements in our free time. We've already worked on organizing our home, and it feels so good to have a place for everything. Our DIY wood pergola project was prompted by a nasty storm that destroyed our pergola cover, ripping it to shreds and throwing it all over our backyard. This is a project we have been wanting to do for a long time but it just wasn't high on the priority list until this storm knocked our other one out of commission! I figured I'd share our DIY project in case anyone else has been wanting to do an upgrade like this in their backyard. PS it's totally doable with just two people and honestly my husband pretty much did most of the work on his own. I just helped him ... Read more...

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