Hello, people! I’ve got instructions to share with yas today so that you can recreate this starburst trellis for your garden, garage or side of your house! When I was designing our new patio space last spring, I knew I had to come up with a solution to push our v not cute white-vinyl-sided garage to the background. It was an eyesore of the most extreme kind, and I didn’t want it to be the backdrop of our soon-to-be idyllic backyard patio hang spot.

Whenever I dreamt of this space (which was basically every spring) I had always known that I wanted to run planter boxes along the base of the garage, and after mulling it over it occurred to me that adding a very large trellis might be the exact thing we needed to minimize that eye sore of a garage! I used the coffee table that I built for the patio (instructions also coming soon) as inspiration, and mimicked its starburst pattern in the design of the trellis.

I filled the planter boxes with overflowing purple petunias – they really were overflowing by the end of the summer. Towards the back of the planter boxes I planted hyacinth beans which are so pretty an amazing, they are my new favorite for sure. JoAnna Gaines had to go use Hyacinth seeds on one this season’s episode of FU (ha), and I was worried I wouldn’t be able to find any for this year’s crop. This spring I am sowing the bean plants inside under grow lights, because there just wasn’t enough time last year for them to become mature and grow all over that trellis. Plus they were competing for sun with those huge petunias. I am dedicated to having it be an amazing lush viney wonderland on that trell by the end of the summer 2018!

Once you get all your pieces cut for this project, the assembly is pretty straight forward. The video animation (in the beginning of the post) illustrates the basic construction for the project. I start with the outside of the frame first, and then construct the horizontal slats, the vertical slats, the slats from the center of the trellis, and lastly the 20 surrounding slats.

The horizontal slats should be centered every 16 ⅛” (measuring from the bottom outside corner of the frame.) The vertical slats will be placed in the middle of the frame at the 4′ mark.

After the horizontal and vertical pieces are roughly laid in place, tack them to the frame with your nail gun. Then gather all of your center pieces (reference the diagram above for dimensions), and roughly fit those into place.

*BTW, I love this nail gun, it’s cordless and powerful and I love it (I know I said ‘love’ twice) – I’d highly recco getting another battery pack right away so that you don’t get slowed down by waiting for the batt to re-charge.

Once your 8 center pieces are roughed in, nail them into place. Make sure to secure them to the vertical pieces, as well as the horizontal slats.

Use an extra long t-square to ensure that your pieces are square. You will now begin installing the 20 outer pieces. Place each piece 14 ⅞” apart on center.

Continue measuring and installing pieces until you’ve completely installed all 20 pieces. Your trellis should look just like this mine once you’re all finished up.

I stained mine with black ebony stain and then hung it from my garage with 6 corner braces.

Find instructions on how to build the planter box over here. I’ll be back in a few weeks with instructions on how to create an outdoor/indoor coffee table, this should keep you busy until then ;)