An outdoor space will never be complete without a swing. If you have plenty of free space in your backyard, building a swing can be a great idea and your whole family will be pleased. Children will have a place where they can pass the time in the summer and adults can have a nice and relaxing time enjoying the sunlight. An outdoor swing is not a cheap investment, but you can make it affordable by building it yourself. That’s why we chose to feature this next swing that can be made at home and for which you will find the plans in the image below. You can recreate the same swing as the one in the pictures by following the exact measurements from the image or make another one and change the dimensions according to your yard size and free space. Once your swing is ready, go out and buy a few comfy pillows and blankets so you can keep yourself warm on chilly summer nights.

Estimated Time Investment:
Day Project (6-9 Hours)

Swing with A frame stand

Although fire pits are something of a trend, there is something new catching up: fire pit swings! Making them perfect for a nice evening family gathering, the addition of swings to the classic fire pit brings more entertainment. It will cost around $600 and about a week of free-time work for the entire project. It lasts this long because you will need to make sure the swings can be properly used after installment.

Details and instructions: Ana White

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What’s better than sitting around a campfire in the summer evenings? A beautiful summer evening with a backyard fire pit is the perfect gathering spot for family and friends. How does it look this place ?

Materials:
6- Bags of Sacreete (or Quickcreete – whatever you call it) one for each upright.
6- 6x6x10’s (for the uprights)
6- 6x6x8’s for the top sections
6- 2x6x8’s for the stabilizers that go kitty corner on top of 6×6’s (for strength)
24- 3/8’s x 8″ lags for laggin the top horizontal pieces to the uprights (countersunk)
24- 4″ Deck screws for screwing the top pieces together horizontally before lagging them.
24 – 3″ Deck screws for screwing the top 2×6 stabilizers to the 6×6’s
10- 3/8×8″ eyebolts with nuts and washers for hanging the swings

” I din’t have any building instructions to go by, pretty much just winged it. I layed out the hexagon in the yard so that center for the uprights for each bay was 7′ apart because I knew I wanted to get 5′ swings. I had 14′ from each upright to the upright opposite of it. I’m not sure what the angles were, I just took two pieces of scrap and layed them up there and messed around cutting a few until I got the angle right. We got all the top pieces set up there before lagging them all in. Left one bay swingless so that I could carry firewood in.

I got 6x6x10’s for the uprights and they are sacreeted almost 3 feet in the ground. I guess its a little over 7 feet to the bottom of the 6x6x8’s on top. ” Chenango Dave (owner)

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