How To Build Wood Window Awnings

Diy front door awning.

How to build wood window awnings.

How to make window awnings yourself step 1. Making your own window awnings at home doesn t need to be expensive and neither does it need to be particularly time consuming as this plan shows. Cedar is one of our favorite woods to work with and in this video you can see how these diyers use this fantastic type of wood to build an awning with a metal roof. How to build window awnings.

Choose the awning s location. Build the bracket mounts. We like a diy plan with a good backstory. A perfect way to keep the rain off your head and it looks great too.

Determine what shape awning you would like to purchase. Materials 2 1 x2 pine boards at least 6 long 2 x10 piece of corrugated metal roofing wood screws dark stain and clean rag to apply it 1 metal screws gloves 1 1 4 pine board 2 six foot long 1 2 boards. Take a photograph of each window on a sunny day so that you can see where the light reflection hits the surface. Purchase 1 inch wide by 6.

Cut the 1x6 s in half making 6 pieces of 4 feet length each. How to build window awnings. Determine how far your awning should reach. According to this blogger s estimate you can have the whole thing finished in no more than about three or four hours an ideal weekend diy project for those who.

Semicircular square or rectangular. Observe where the sun contacts your home the most throughout the day if you are looking.