Here's what it looked like when we moved in:
There was nothing wrong with it. Quaint, rather large, and pretty enjoyable. But you know us Harrises. We don't do well with "nothing wrong." We quickly realized that the stairs were small and that we couldn't enjoy it in the rain. Plus, there's a certain brown man who doesn't like being wet, but didn't have anywhere to hide. That just won't do. We realized pretty quickly we were going to have to cover it.
It took about 4 weeks (and Chad and Spencer) to get it here:
After that it was an exercise in tedium. Lots of screws... especially to shore it up with the brick-patterned cross-beams:
At this point, Otis was really loving it. He had shade when it was hot, and a shield from the rain.
See? Happy, dry puppy.
We left it this way for a while. Then we moved and rebuilt the stairs and stripped and stained the whole thing so it would be the same color. But you'll have to take our word for it, because we can't find those pictures. Oops. But I promise it was awesome.
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