Arbor of bricks: beautiful designs

Arbor on the plot solve several problems at once: it is a comfortable resting place and decoration of landscape design. You can build a wooden structure, it has an attractive appearance and is inexpensive. But only a brick structure will last a hundred years, without requiring special care.

The brick arbor is a permanent fixed structure. Even if it consists of columns and a roof alone, it needs a lightweight (columnar) foundation. The brick structure is reliable, durable and thorough, it has only one drawback, its cost is slightly higher than that of wood. But if you consider all the positive features, then brick arbor will be more advantageous compared to other materials:

• It has a beautiful, presentable appearance.
• Durable, can serve several generations.
• Is reliable. The structure of the closed type will protect from weather influences and from external penetrations.

• In such a room is always cozy, warm and dry.
• The brick does not rot, does not rust, it is not corroded by fungus and mold, which makes it possible to save on anti-corrosion and antifungal impregnation.
• It is easy to look after such arbor, it does not demand paint and varnish coverings.

• The brick belongs to fire-resistant materials, the arbor erected from it can be safely equipped with a stove and a brazier.
• The capital structure of a closed type may well replace the summer kitchen, if you bring water supply and equip the stove with a hob. As heating, you can use heaters.
• The brick is well combined with any construction materials, with its participation they build beautiful combined buildings.

Despite the large variety of arbors, they can be divided into three main types: closed, open and half-open. Buildings of this type also differ in size, shape, internal configuration, they are combined in combination with stone, wood or iron.

• Pergolas open type contain colons and roof, can be supplemented with wild stone or forging. They need a light foundation, since all the buildings of brick are capital. Living walls of climbing plants will help to overcome the summer heat. The open buildings are elegant and light, they are beautifully integrated into the landscape design. But they can occupy a large area, in the center of which they build a stove, install a brazier and equip a dining area.

• Pergolas closed type - massive buildings with strip foundations or concrete slabs, walls on all sides, windows and a door. In such buildings can be water, electricity, even a bathroom. To bring all the communications to the gazebo, you need to build it near the house. Here you can arrange a stove, smokehouse, grill, barbecue, if properly perform the chimney and ventilation system.This room can be used throughout the year.
• The most popular tradeoffs are arbors - half open Such a structure has several walls and a roof. The walls can protect from heat, wind and slanting rain, but they are often used as a cooking zone by installing a brazier and barbecue.

Pergolas are of different sizes and configurations, clear geometric shapes and free shape:

• Square designs can be of any of the listed types. If they are small, they are equipped with a table, chairs or benches, they build a stove next to the gazebo, install a brazier.
• Rectangular arbors of any type are able to accommodate on their territory a dining area and a cooking area.

• Round buildings are often equipped with benches along the walls and a table in the center of the room, sometimes in the center they arrange a grill.
• Many-sided designs are completed as round arbors.
• Free-form structures are easy to zone, but their project is better to entrust the designer, any mistake in the sketch will give the building a strange look.

It is not so easy to choose the one that suits the taste, size, budget and becomes quite functional from a large number of gazebos. Before construction, when drafting a project, one should decide in many ways.

First you need to decide for what purposes the arbor will be used. If you need it as a decoration of landscape design, you can choose a small open structure, elegant forms, combined with any building materials. Using a light foundation and a small brickwork, you can build an inexpensive and fairly beautiful structure.

The octagonal half-open gazebo is suitable for a large company, it has immaculate shapes, you can place benches near its walls, and place a table or a grill in the center.

Before drawing up a project, you need to choose the type of gazebo, the foundation of the foundation depends on it.

Then you must select a suitable place to build.If the building is small, light, open, it is suitable for a picturesque corner in the garden, it is better on a hill. Arbor should be combined with the general organization of the site.

For buildings of a closed or semi-open type, if communications are required, the best place will be the area around the house, but not very close, given the fire regulations.

At the construction site there should be no trees with branched rhizome. Sometimes recreation areas are broken at wells or ponds. It should be remembered that the construction requires a flat platform.

As for the design, it is impossible to build an oversized arbor in a small courtyard, visually it will make it even smaller, and a small structure in a large garden can be overlooked.

Having decided on the type of gazebo and the place where it should be built, you should think about the shape, size and design of the building. It can be a closed building with windows and a door or an octahedral glazed construction with barbecue and barbecue. Pergolas are equipped with stoves, smokehouses, ovens and cooking surfaces, which are brought in from the outside or are lined up with the room.

At the next stage a drawing is drawn up, accurate calculations of the dimensions of the building are made. Arbor should be marked on the general plan of the site.

Building materials are selected for the foundation, walls, roofing and facing works. The type of foundation is determined. An estimate of costs. Capital construction with communications may need to be coordinated with the relevant organizations.

Having thought and calculated everything, you can start building. Plot level, remove the top layer of soil and make the markup.

For gazebos use different types of foundations, it all depends on the massiveness of the structure. Light construction is sufficiently columnar base, and a heavier building require solid, tape or slab basement.

A small open gazebo keeps a light roof on four brick pillars. For such a construction is suitable column foundation.The pillars are located in each corner of the building and go deep into the ground from 50 to 100 cm, depending on the condition of the ground. For the base, use a pipe or frame made of reinforcement, filled with concrete.

In order to build a strip foundation, they dig a trench to the depth of soil freezing, install timber formwork into it, place the reinforcement and fill it with concrete.

For a solid reinforced base, a foundation pit is pulled out, formwork is installed, covered with rubble and poured with cement.

If the slab foundation is laid, the floor can be neglected. Solid, tape and slab bases are suitable for heavy closed and half-open arbors.

It is difficult to build on loose or marshy soils, on the surface with ravines and hills. In such cases, you can use the pile foundation, it will do without costly alignment of the site.

The base should protrude above the ground by no less than 20 cm, in which case the facing material will be preserved from damage upon contact with the soil.

The finished foundation is laid waterproofing, treated with mastic and proceed to the construction of walls. During the work periodical reconciliation with the construction level is required:

• Erecting an open gazebo, it is enough to lay out the pillars of brick to the roof.
• A semi-open construction involves building one or two walls.
• The building of the closed type is built completely, if the stove was planned, it is being built simultaneously with the walls.

Do not forget about communications and wiring. The plan should indicate the location of the door and windows with an accurate calculation of their size, during the construction of the walls should be constantly checked with the project.

According to the last circle of bricks, the timber is laid and fastened with the help of anchors, the roof system is built on it. Under the roofing material they make a crate, slate, metal tile, professional sheet and other hard materials are attached to it. Under soft coverings, for example, ondulin, enclose moisture resistant plywood.

At the last stage of construction windows and doors are installed, glazing is carried out.

At the stage of the project, making an estimate, it is necessary to identify the cost of decoration and design ideas. No matter where the gazebo is located, in the country house or on a plot with expensive landscape design, it must be beautiful and delight with its appearance.

The laying itself is beautiful, especially with the use of finishing bricks, but there are more complex approaches to exterior decoration:

• Apply figured masonry with offset brick, or in the plane of the wall injected pattern, resorting to materials of a different color. Carved bricks are also used.
• To improve the exterior use the combined methods of decoration. Elegantly forged with brick art forging.
• Elements of the wild stone from the basement side can be beaten with the same lining of the stove or fireplace inside the arbor.
• The restrained and at the same time spectacular woodcarving adorning the brick gazebo looks amazing.

• Stucco can be styled with white laying.
• The building is sometimes decorated with street lamps or plaster figures.
• The exterior decoration includes not only the arbor itself, but also the paths laid for it, a platform around the building.

Decorating indoors touches the walls, floor, ceiling, fireplace or barbecue. Interior decoration should match the exterior style of the building, as well as other objects on the site.

Walls lay tiles, glue waterproof wallpaper. The floor is lined with tiles, wooden plates, made of concrete or stone. Around the furnace, the finish should be of refractory tile or stone. In the decoration of lamps, floor, barbecue, logs can participate wrought elements.

Arbor can replace a picnic in nature, it has the same features, but reinforced comfort. In order for a building to serve as a place of proper rest, it is necessary to organize it correctly. Maybe, a few tips on building and arranging will help to do this:

• While working on the foundation, it is necessary to strengthen the location of the stove or fireplace.
• Entrance to the structure must be done on the leeward side. Arbor with a stove is built so that the smoke does not fall into the premises of the house.
• Working with masonry, you can stretch the tape for the perfect construction of the wall.
• In the winter building should be running water, and if possible, and sewage.

• If you can not organize a water supply system, it is better to build a gazebo near the well or well.
• The rest area with barbecue and barbecue for fire safety equipment is arranged five meters from the house, but it should be located at the side of the kitchen or at the entrance to the house so that it is easier to carry dishes and food.
• For convenient use, it is possible to arrange a toilet for comfortable use not far from the brazier; they can be equally styled.
• If the cooking zone is outside the building, it is better to arrange a canopy.

Not only the gazebo should look beautiful, but also the surrounding area, it should be planted with flowering plants, organize paths and benches, turned into a real paradise. In such a place the rest will be full and unforgettable.

It’s easy to choose a gazebo for your plot, you only need to decide on its size and function, consider many beautiful examples and choose the one that will become a place of rest for many years.

• A variant of an octahedral arbor decorated with wooden elements and stone.
• The structure of the closed type with active glazing.
• The interior of the closed building with kitchen and leisure areas. The brickwork of light brick walls is complemented by a multi-faceted ceiling of a similar color.

• Half-open gazebo of brick with wood elements. Built as a kitchen area with a stove and worktop.
• Semi-open construction of complex shape with brickwork in the open fire zone.

• Amazingly beautiful gazebo, combining the simplicity and impeccability of the structure. The correct combination of brick, stone and tile flooring has become the apogee of design craftsmanship.
• Bright open pavilion with spectacular twisted columns.With the help of red brick and stone allocated kitchen area.

• Arbor, made in the form of a Chinese pagoda. Design emphasis is placed on the roof, under which you can see a simple but functional structure.
• The design of irregular shape in the Gothic style. The division of the arbor into two parts gives it the opportunity to treat the buildings of closed and open type at the same time.

Having a plot with a house, you should definitely think about the gazebo. This is a real opportunity, without leaving your comfort zone, to feel yourself in nature and to taste food cooked on an open fire.

About the project gazebos with barbecue, see the following video.