My assignment: tear down and rebuild the lattice work surrounding the pool pump equipment beside a favorite suburban house in Virginia. (The labor was a birthday present.) The existing structure was rotting, caving in on itself, and had sustained fire damage at the hands if a tiki torch. The new materials were a pile of vinyl lattice, some clip-together molding, and a small pile of hardware.

Here is where we started:

So I drew up some quick plans:

And after an afternoon of work, some breaks, a lot of remeasuring and cutting, and help from several family members, we arrived at today’s creation: