Japanese-style gazebo with your own hands + Photo- Drawings and dimensions + Video

Arbor in Japanese style: photos, drawings. More and more often, beautiful gazebos of the western direction can be found in the expanses of Mother Russia: now, even in small summer cottages, you can find gazebos in the Japanese style, and sometimes you can also see them in parks or a public garden.

The beauty of this style lies in its simplicity - such a gazebo is inexpensive and can be easily built with your own hands. But the coloring of such a building will transform any place, and bring peace and tranquility. Such a gazebo will be a great place for reklaks and rest after hard working days.

In this article, you will learn about all the features of Japanese-style gazebos, as well as how to build one with your own hands and how to decorate it.

Advantages of a Japanese gazebo

Traditions

Traditionally, a Japanese-style gazebo is built only from reeds or bamboo, and oiled rice paper and straw to create a Japanese-style gazebo roof. Unfortunately, the climate in central Russia is not conducive to using such fragile materials, and for this reason, wood or stone is often used to create an eastern building.

Please note that neither plastic nor other materials of synthetic origin can be used in the construction of a Japanese-style gazebo. The roof, walls and floor of such a pagoda must "breathe", so wood is ideal.

Features

Such gazebos have a number of features, since they differ from ordinary buildings by the following factors:

1. The building must be oriented to the cardinal points. For this reason, a blank wall is made from the south, and the entrance must be located from the east or west. Thanks to this construction, you will get a comfortable and constant coolness inside the gazebo, and you can always fully enjoy the beautiful sunrises and sunsets.
2. The stylistic aspect of the construction is not as important as the surrounding area around the pagoda. It is advisable to build a Japanese house on a small elevation so that it can be easily viewed from anywhere on the site.

   Plant dwarf trees, evergreen shrubs, plants with large and bright flowers (lilies, peonies, chrysanthemums) around. If you have the opportunity, follow the example of the Japanese and surround the house with traditional cherry blossom or fruit trees.

3. It will be great if there is an artificial or natural reservoir near the Japanese-style gazebo. This will give a good effect for relaxation - contemplation of water, plants, sunset. So you can feel like a real Japanese - calm and calm.

4. A distinctive feature of the Japanese-style gazebos is the multi-tiered roof, namely the pagoda. The building itself should be simple, but the roof should be spectacular, lush.The corners of the roof must be raised to create the effect of an airy, floating structure.
5. Very often, Japanese gazebos are erected on stilts to make it seem even weightless. To emphasize the elegance of the style, you can use a curved bridge with beautiful steps.

6. For decoration, you do not need to use colorful fabrics and flashy colors, it will be better if you purchase mats, plain textiles in pastel or neutral shades.

Please note, that you cannot overload the gazebo with complex structures and details, since this structure should be a priori light and simple.

Stages of manufacturing

It is not difficult to make a Japanese-style gazebo with your own hands, if you want to put a particle of your soul into this structure. First you need to decide on the place of construction, and then you can start creating the foundation. First of all, you need to clear the entire site, get rid of stones and debris.

After that, remove the fertile soil layer, and go deeper by about 0.3 meters in order to prevent further germination of various unnecessary vegetation, including weeds.

After that, you can start marking - draw the outlines of the gazebo on the ground, check the drawing of the gazebo in Japanese style. In the future corners of the building, you need to put milestones - pegs made of wood or metal, so that you have points for future supports.

Good advice! The traditional form of a Japanese gazebo is an octagon or hexagon.

But if this is your first experience in construction, then choose a design easier, for example, a circle or a square. If you design the pagoda correctly, it will not be worse than any other Japanese gazebo, and you can avoid many mistakes during the construction phase.

Since wood is a lightweight material, you can make a gazebo on a lightweight foundation, and even a pile-type base that you can raise slightly above ground level is suitable for this.

To lay piles, you need to make holes of the required size, usually square pits with a cross section of 0.4 * 0 are enough.

4 meters and a depth of 0.8-1 meters. In the finished pits, you need to fill up a layer of sand of 10 cm, tamp and add rubble. Now you can lay out pillars from brick or stone, and to adhere the material, use a slurry of cement, which you just need to water each row of the laid stone.

Please note that the piles must protrude above the ground level is not less than 20 cm, but they should not exceed 50 cm, as this will cause the structure to be weakened.

After the concrete has dried, the construction of the above-ground part can be started:

1. From a thick bar of 0.15 * 0. 15 m, make the lower strapping, and in advance close the foundation pillars with waterproofing material (dense polyethylene, roofing felt, bitumen).
2. Now you can start installing vertical supports, which need to be placed at each corner of the arbor and in the middle on the long sides. In the same way, select the borders of door and window openings.

3. When you have mastered the fixing of the vertical supports, you can start making the top strapping. It is made with a bar with a section of 8 * 8 cm or 10 * 4 cm.
4. Walls can be reinforced with struts or using horizontal crossbars that divide each wall in half. Do not forget about openings and leave them open.
5. And now let's move on to the most difficult part of building a Japanese-style gazebo with our own hands - creating a roof.

   Although it often seems to novice builders that this is not difficult, in fact, not everyone can cope with this task on their own. You can choose a simplified design and make 2 standard hipped roofs, which will be located one above the other. The corners of the roof should be bent upwards, and in each slope the middle should sag slightly.

6. When you are done with the rafter system, start stuffing boards or stacking sheets of material such as moisture resistant plywood.
7. It is best to cover the roof with flexible material such as metal profiles or bituminous tiles.

When everything is over, you can move on to the most pleasant thing - decoration.

How to decorate a Japanese gazebo

As already mentioned, there should not be a lot of decor for an oriental gazebo, since nothing should interfere and distract attention from enjoying the beauty of nature and your own thoughts. To get some inspiration, we made a selection of Japanese style gazebos.

This will make it easier to understand that you need to choose neutral shades for coloring wood, for example, black, white, brown, beige. But there are also many pagodas, the design of which is made solely in contrast - a combination of red and beige, white and black, brown and dark green.

But first you need to thoroughly treat the wood with an antiseptic, since this material is highly susceptible to the formation of mold and mildew. After that, you can cover the wood with varnish or stain - after all, the natural type of wood during construction becomes more popular every year.

If you nevertheless decide to paint a Japanese gazebo, then you should also choose a shade based on what landscape surrounds it, since the shade must be combined with the general background of the site. Acrylic paint is best suited, and it is convenient to apply it with a spray - thanks to this you get a thin and even layer.

Although usually the roof, walls and floor are not painted in the same shade, they do not have to be contrasting.

The combination of more than three shades is prohibited, as this will make the gazebo too colorful, catchy, and this is far from the minimalistic Japanese traditions.

The decoration inside the gazebo in the Japanese style should be simple, or even somewhat ascetic.A large number of textiles, lamps and pillows of complex design will not be appropriate here.

You can decorate the pagoda with the following items:

• Simple stone or wood furniture.
• Small table to hold the tea ceremony.

• Cookware in the appropriate style.
• Several Japanese lanterns, made of rice paper, which are excellent at diffusing light (usually placed under a dome).
• If you want to insulate your floor, use mats, and you can buy seating mats separately.
• Open walls and windows can be covered with light curtains, and not collected in lush bunches, but simply hung so that they flutter in the wind.

Please note, h bright and variegated fabrics are not suitable for decorating openings, since everything should be functional and simple.

This is, perhaps, all about the design. It is better to add accents after than to overdo it immediately.

Conclusion

A do-it-yourself Japanese-style gazebo will become a good place for privacy and relaxation for body and soul. The design is simple, and the design is quite simple, since the motto of the Japanese is minimalism in all its manifestations.