By the time I installed the basketball goal, winter was approaching, and I decided to hold off until spring to take the next step—installing the electrical, lights, fan, and speakers. First up is installing the rigid conduit required outside in Illinois to each of the 6 posts and the areas I wanted outdoor outlets. Then…
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Backyard Patio Structure: Basketball Goal
In the design phase of the patio, I actually increased the patio by a few feet outwards, specifically so I could fit a basketball goal, including enough room for college three point shots. Our driveway has a fairly significant incline, so it isn’t a good place for basketball at all, so if this Hoosier was…
Backyard Patio Structure: Roof
Once the framing was complete, next step was putting a roof on it! I used tongue and groove boards because I wanted that look on the inside. After debating several different ways of running boards, I decided while framing on a pattern that resembled a pattern in nature—a leaf. This made the angles a little…
Backyard Patio Structure: Fireplace
Once we had all the preparation complete with the water line, electrical, and speaker conduit, it was time for our fireplace! We talked about what we want, and our mason laid out the elevation in conjunction with our patio paver, who wanted to have a specific pitch from the house. Initial layout was an exciting…
Backyard Patio Structure: Preparation
After settling on a design for the patio structure, we had to seek folks to put in the patio pavers, and most importantly build the fireplace and stone columns. We reached out to several folks, with varying degrees of response, and widely different estimates. Suffice to say, part of what we were doing was somewhat…
Backyard Patio Structure: Modeling
As I was thinking about what kind of patio structure to build, we had used an Ez-Up canopy the summer before to think about the shade patterns to determine where and what shape to create. I knew that I had to keep the size under a certain limit to comply with our towns regulations, so…
Our Patio Structure
A few years ago, we created a new patio with a fireplace, pavers, and a covered structure. Designing and working to bring it all together was a fun and challenging endeavor. Figuring out how to build the hybrid “gazebo” combined with a peak roof required starting with many iterations in drawings, a 1/12 scale model,…
Jeff Staley 