I bought the octagon gazebo from Costco and love it. Does anyone know of a way to add either curtains or outdoor roll up shades?
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I purchased curtain rods without brackets and attached a rod to each section either to add curtains mini lights or outdoor shades by attaching an s hook
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I love it too! I plan on adding mosquito netting as well as interchangeable canvas curtains by putting strips of Velcro along the inside top of the gazebo and sewing the partner strip to the fabrics.
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We put a large eye ring in the bottom of the wood frame of our screen porch and then used a bungee cord that came with a tarp (it is a loop that has a ball on one end). Put the loop through the eye and the ball stops it from going all the way. Then we use small carabiners to attach the bungee to the tie down rings.
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That's a good one. I thought about this too but it hasn't been enough a burden to do anything. I considered paint but that may end up looking bad. You could fasten a decorative curtain across the interior roof or even black plastic or dark window screen. All come in large rolls. Good luck and post what you did!
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As stated by the other vendors, there is a pull chain inside of the shade. Hopefully that helps! Good luck and thank you! :)
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Try using a light clap with metal hood available at Home Depot. Or make your own using a socket, electrical cord and plug - wrap cord around top of stand and secure with a either large binder clips or claps again available at Home Depot. Not sure how you provide shade to the last option. Good luck.
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Yes, the roll up shades are available on both sides of the enclosure. Thanks!
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Look on Amazon, or on the website for Suncast, for accessories. I invented my own shelves, w/hooks & small boards. The hooks are really easy to install-& strong!
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You can tie them to anything. I have mine on a raised deck so one corner is on a gutter pipe on the house and I bought 2 Sun Shade Pole Kits at frugah.com for about $13 each. Or just google "Sun Shade Pool Kits" and they have other types. Mine aren't the most attractive and the nylon shades look nicer but I didn't want to invest a lot of $$ until I decided if I liked it. And I'm not sure yet because I live north of Boston and we had a couple of hot days so far but it's still pretty chilly!
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No, we had to go to Lowes and buy wire, u bolts, and eye bolts to tie to the posts and soffit of the house. We hung two one slightly about 6 or 8 inches above and the top one slightly off set to get more coverage. Be sure and know where the morning and afternoon suns rays will hit the area under the shades. We only get about 4 hours of shade that moves across the area under the shades.
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Did not see a screen kit made specifically for this gazebo but decided to adapt one. However, we just put the gazebo up this falland will wait until spring to do so therefore we can't tell you how we did it. Now that we have the gazebo up, we see lots of optionsthat we could use.
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I anchored my sun shades to metal poles, (grounded of course) drilled through the metal poles, installed an eye-bolt through the pole. Then tie your sun shades rope to a caribeneer and attach to your eye-bolt
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We have our gazebo on the rooftop deck in Chicago (think windy city), while it is vented very well, in high winds it did start to shake and move, so we ended up screwing it to the deck and filling the hollow columns with sand (about 1 80lbs bag per column), the combination of the sand and the screws makes it rock solid. In the winter we take the canvas down so not to get snow build-up. If your not in as windy a place, you might just try the sand trick.
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I got this for a friend in an assisted living facility. We hung it from her curtain rod and its beautiful. Maybe you could geta hook to hang it from. It is a little tricky to put together but once you get it assembled its a great idea and a great price. Good luck
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If you are talking about the bottom free edge of the shade when fully unrolled, then you could use bungees to some weights ( I use some exercise kettle bells). Otherwise, masonry drill to set anchor eye loops to the ground for fastening.)
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My son has the same screen room and he fixed a heavy wire across the whole sunny side of his screen room and he used a shower curtain with shower hooks to slide it open and closed. The shower curtains now look just like regular curtains and it really looks nice and it is weather proof too. I don't think a curtain rod would work as it would be a little too heavy. I used the roll up blinds in mine that are hung with little hooks.....Try either idea....
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Hi Nancy. The only thing I can think of is using weight bags that attach to the legs of the gazebo. I've attached a link to the ones I fould. I purchased this gazebo and bolted it to the patio and it is very secure. Holes are very small and could be filled very easly. Let me know what you decide to do.http://www.ezup.com/accessories/weightbag.shtmlAllan
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There is a company window film and more that sells (windowfilmandmore.com) that sell sheets of one way mirrors (the stuff that I guess is in the window feeder that costs a whole lot more), and other glass covers that may work. They sent me free small samples (three total) but I haven't used anything yet because it hasn't gotten warm yet :) ... but any of the three look like they will work. I'm planning on using it for the window bird feeder also. (which ever one I end up picking)