Adding privacy to your back deck!

My back deck is extremely large, anndd extremely in everyone's view. There is absolutely no privacy from the kids play ground, pool and BBQ area. So we needed a solution for this problem!


But we came across some problems.. It should have been as easy as screwing in the screen to the wood on the roof. Buutttt, we couldn't use screws.. well we could have but, we aint suppose ta. Plus, it was a metal gutters that we couldn't screw into. Also, our roof did not extend to the end of the patio. It stopped half way through. So a couple of obstacles that we eventually overcame!






We bought some screws and these perfect brackets, which was cheap and oh so easy.
We bought three boards and 2 brackets, some screws and zip ties!! Because we cant screw the boards to the deck.


We have an ikea drill... and we need to invest in a new one. But for small projects and $15 this drill works pretty dang awesome!

This is the boards all put together and standing up at the edge of the patio!
Next we secured the boards with zip ties!

We put them straight up, only to discover that the blinds did not cover the area we needed it to, and it just looked short and silly.
So we slanted the poles.










Then we used existing nails in the ceiling and some zip ties chained together to create a secure holding for the shade.

If you don't want to use zip ties you can just use the screw packet that comes with the shades.

This whole project cost about $35. and totally worth it to get people to stop staring into my living room!!



Plus when I get into decorating the back deck all cajun-afied, it will definitely look really cool.

Sometimes Evangeline anger cuddles me. She is not a happy cat..