Got a new pup Susan? Looks like a real frisky one.

This one's pretty goofey too

Yep, I don't like using hangers (or any other exposed fasteners) either but we pretty much have to around here. We use the concealed flange type though and paint them (I didn't show them painted in my model), so they're not that bad looking. http://woodsshop.com/PROJECTS/Mill/Construction%20Mill/m21a.htm
http://woodsshop.com/pa7.htm

Those curved knee braces aren't decorative, they're structural, the only way around not needing those would be setting the posts into the ground.

EDIT: This Curved Patio Cover project never happened, but this nice one did!
http://woodsshop.com/Curved-Patio-Cover.htm

This is a curved patio cover design I worked up for a client who has a small house on a 25' wide lot in one of our San Diego area beach communities. Don't let the small size fool ya, the house is probably worth around $700,000! so we thought it should have a nice patio cover.

This would go on the front street side of the house.

hey Bob, have you ever done (or had done) any wood cutting with a water jet? If so I have some questions about cutting 1.5" thick, clear western red cedar.

I like doing screens like that only I us a simple square cut notch in the uprights.
http://woodsshop.com/bbrbqrgb.htm

I wonder how they cut those notches with that little shoulder left square at the top? Do any of you woodworkers have a guess? A bevel cut with the radial arm would get the top angle but how to cut that remaining square part?

Simon, first set up a Page or Scene so that the view doesn't change. Position your first leader with the text. Then, place your second leader arrow where you want it, and bring it up to the first text, click it, and then enter a space.

If you can't decipher anything pull up the corners of you eyes like you were Chinese.

Oh gawd, people can be so crazy!

http://gizmodo.com/372272/video-of-bigdog-beta-quadruped-robot-is-so-stupid-its-hilarious

I'm pretty excited about this one. Never done a Public Garden before, and it's a chance to do something extra special, where alot of people might appreciate it.

The roof style on the Main Gate is my own interpretation of the Irimoya style, or Dutch hip roof. On my Roofed Entry Gates, I call it a Azumaya Roof Style.
You can see more images of the same style roof here
http://woodsshop.com/Japanese_gate_plans.htm

This one will be 10' wide though, and at a much taller scale then I'm used to working with.

We'd pre-fab all three roofs, complete with shingles, and the four fence sections,
(make them Components, same as I do with SUp

then haul it 300 miles North up the to the foot of the Sierras and Yosemite, and install it.

It would be fabricated from vertical grain, old growth western red cedar, salvaged logs from Vancouver Island BC. You can see pics of us working the same stock, building a 5' wide Entry here http://woodsshop.com/How%20To/BuildAJapaneseGate.htm Such beautiful material.

the fencing would look similar to this project http://woodsshop.com/closeup/deck02_7.htm

This project is for the Miki Public Japanese Garden that the city of Visalia, California is going to begin construction on in May. They've contacted me to do the Entry Design, and hopefully the Build :-). This is being organized by many of the same people who designed and built the Shinzen Friendship garden in neighboring Fresno http://www.shinzenjapanesegarden.org/

There's a 10' wide Entry Gate, then 10' of fencing to either side, then two 10' sections on a 45.

Good luck he says and there are only 6 knee braces on this one.

Not luck, but know-how, and some nice tools!
http://woodsshop.com/Gazebo_Kits/Knee%20Braces/Knee-Braces.htm

Here's how we make them, with a bandsaw and trammel arm to swing them thru on n arc
http://woodsshop.com/PROJECTS/Mill/Construction%20Mill/CutKneeBraces.htm

So here you go, almost finished,

We're just waiting on the bamboo to arrive from China. My supplier stopped stocking it, and it takes 6 weeks to get it now.

Might do the spa surround too,
depending on the owner's wallet!

Here's a shot for Space Cow

You can see more of this nice project here
http://woodsshop.com/DESIGNS/Spa/Spa-Shade-Cover.htm

Here's a few I've picked up along the way.

rocks.skp

I thought a spa surround would really complete the project so I Sketched up one. Gives some nice seating and storage.

It would be built similar to how we built this surround
http://woodsshop.com/PRosen8.htm

Well, it will be possible, after Nate (my client) builds it, and if he sends me pics.

The railing and screening would be similar to this
http://woodsshop.com/PROJECTS/Mill/Finish/17.htm

The railing would have Open style for the outer edge, and Privacy style for the sides.

they said it would be nice having a lower deck, that would overhang the pond.

The spa surround adds alot of seating, and would be built similar to this one but with straight lines, not curved (Unless the Homeowner wants to tackle it
http://woodsshop.com/Rosenberg_Deck_Page.htm

check this out .. the Homeowner got the free version of SUp, played around with it for awhile, then sent me his .skp model (House, lot, pond and tree location, existing deck, all to scale) when he contacted me. Made my job a little easier!

Here's the Side View, from the neighbors house.

This is an Online Deck Design I'm doing for a client back on the East Coast, U.S.

They have a small deck now, and a nice water garden. There's also a tree about 8' from the pond that they'd like to keep.

They wanted to enlarge the deck space and add a spa area.

Yeah pretty incredible isn't it! Definitively looks alive in its movements!

Amazing how it's able to navigate that terrain.