Outvita 7Ft Wooden Garden Arbor Arch, Wood Arbor Trellis, Pergola Archway for Wedding Ceremony Decoration Pergola Plant Climbing Rose Vines Lawn Courtyard Patio Dark Brown

Fairly easy for my husband and I to build. Took about 30 - 40 minutes outside on the grass. Strong enough to last for a year or two. I am going to add a more stronger stain but it was a nice brown color. It's fine for what I need it for to grow a single grapevine over. I am going to add concrete steps to set it on so it's flatter.

Simple instructions and easy to put together. Did so by myself until I added the arch pieces when I needed another pair of hands so had my husband hold them while I attached them. I predrilled every hole to prevent the wood from splitting and used wood glue with the screws as well. The brackets that attach the upper and lower portions were silver so I did a quick brown spray paint so they would blend in better. I also bought four metal stakes and screwed one to each leg (after painting them too), then hammered them into the ground for stability. Turned out beautiful!

I’ve bought several of these wooden arches- two from this company, two from a different company. The other two were “cedar” colored, which was actually orange, so I ended up painting them. This one is dark brown, which I was fine with. Every arch has had minor issues- chips, cracks, loose bits on the trellis part- it just seems to be inevitable. But usually fixable. There are a few parts where the screw holes are not pre drilled, you’ll have to measure for them and drill them yourself. With all of the arches I’ve bought, I attach large L brackets to the legs (one each, extending out to the sides of the arch), then I set a heavy paver on either side, on top of the extending leg of the L bracket, so it keeps the wood out of the soil and it doesn’t rot that way. The heavy pavers keep the arch from tipping over. The arch isn’t hard to put together, other than some holes not being pre drilled. You don’t get much extra hardware, so don’t drop anything!

Bought this item for over 6 months, and it went through several storms by now in the southeast areas. No damage or issues with it so far. But I did repaint the arch and connected it with metal bars at foot so that the wood would not touch the ground. It may help its durability.

I received it in a few days. It took us about 45 minutes from start to finish to assemble the arbor ( We used OUR Electric screw gun to make the process go faster instead of the allen wrench and screw driver that was provided with the kit). No missing parts! It looks good but we added more support by using stakes and rebar. If you look closely at the bottom of the arbor you can see we screwed brown wooden stakes to the front and rebar to the back that we sunk 18" into the ground and secured with tie wraps. Pros: Looks Great, good price, easy assembly. I Love it! The Cons: The 3rd picture shows the damage to the arbor straight out of the box. BUT because it is on the bottom And the Climbing roses will soon cover it, I am okay with that.

Not very sturdy….a bit cheaply made.

Very clear instructions and very easy to build! I am 77 years old and my daughter helped me because, yes, you do need two people. But it is quite lovely and my grapevine crawls all over it, which is just what I wanted!

It does look nice but the wood seems very soft and light. Might not last, will see