Follow along as Simpson Strong-Tie Senior Product Manager Lydia Poulsen shares her experience attending an Outdoor Accents® Sage System™ pergola build with DIY influencer Jen Woodhouse and country music artist John King. Set against the backdrop of north Georgia in the fall, the project highlights how the Sage System helps homeowners and DIYers build strong, customizable outdoor living spaces with ease.
Elizabeth Rajs is the product marketing manager for connectors at Simpson Strong-Tie and is often inspired to put her product knowledge to work at home building small outdoor projects with her husband to enhance their backyard. Take a look at some of her completed projects and find out how spring cleaning transformed into a new backyard wood holder project using leftover materials.
Over the last decade — in outlets reaching from construction industry journals to the Boston Globe and the Economist; from CNN and Fast Company to Popular Mechanics; to Nautilus and TED talks — we’ve been hearing increasingly about mass timber and related phenomena: “CLT,” big wood, tall wood, tall timber, timber towers, ply-rises, plyscrapers, ply in the sky, super-ply, Brobdingnagian boards, and all manner of engineered arboreal futures.
One of the ways many homeowners increase the enjoyment (and monetary) value of their property is by adding a well-designed deck, pergola or other outdoor structure to their backyard. Whether it’s for entertaining or just chilling with a good read and a bracing beverage, a beautiful outdoor living space makes any backyard activity more desirable. Perhaps that’s why, in a 2017 survey, 25% of National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) remodelers reported adding a deck as one of their most common projects, and the figure was nearly identical for new home construction.
