![]() If I were doing it again, I would’ve included a tape measure or yardstick in my original photo before photoshopping, that way we could use that for scale – but it worked out just fine without that reference point. ![]() We used some reference points in our photos to determine where we wanted our pattern to start on the wall and, through a little bit of trial & error, we figured out the precise measurements for each of our diamonds (ours are 25″ apart). I wouldn’t even call it hard, it just required some concentration and double checking. Transferring our digital mockup onto the physical wall was probably the most brain-intensive portion of this project. ![]() It also helped us plan how much material we would need. Thanks to this planning process, we were able to make sure it looked centered on the wall while also staying visually in line with other elements, like the door. Our final design ended up being a smaller version of the first one we attempted. We also considered “open” diamonds on the side, but we both agreed it looked too much like an argyle sweater and the “closed” diamond shapes looked better on the ends. We did this rendering first, and pretty quickly determined the scale felt too large for our liking (just two diamonds tall felt kinda piddly…). This is something you can also figure out on paper if you don’t have the right software (heck, you can print out a photo and sketch right onto it with pencil), but I highly recommend some sort of “planning” step like this before you start making holes. I snapped a picture of the space and dragged it into photoshop so we could play with the scale, size, and placement of the trellis. The very first step for us was to figure out what we wanted our vine trellis to look like. Like, a regular drill and drill bits should work just fine. If you have some other type of siding, you may not need some of these. *Reminder: these are items we needed because we were installing a trellis on brick. …and your vine! We went with clematis (I’ll talk more about that later).Stainless Steel Screw Eye Hooks (we used 22 total).1/16th Aluminum Ferrules (one pack worked for us).1/16th Galvanized Uncoated Steel Wire Rope (ours took three 50ft packs).You’ll also need a few basic tools (we added asterisks next to the ones that are required for brick in case you have the same setup that we do). They sell some kits for installing them (like this one and this one) but we decided to buy the pieces ourselves a la cart (that was dumb, just buy the $13 kit – or two if you need more wire). Here’s another more updated shot from a wider point of view for your viewing pleasure:Īnd here it is from the side so you can really see the diamond-shaped wire trellis that we created: I snapped these updated photos right before we moved to Florida (more on that here and here). But thanks to the magic of updated pictures, here’s what it looked like 6 months later. I know, I know, you have to squint to even see it in that photo above. You may have even seen a couple of spectacularly bad renderings of me drawing a diamond trellis on the big white wall on the right of this photo last year on my InstaStories.Īnd now that strong whole-body craving has been satisfied… because MOMMA HAS A DIAMOND TRELLIS. It’s just such a perfect blank canvas for some lush flowering vines. ![]() The Diamond Trellis Urge (let’s capitalize it because it has grown into a legitimate condition for me over the years) got even stronger after we painted our house white last fall. Which is how you end up posing in front of your own DIY diamond trellis like this. But that family still lives in that house, that diamond trellis continues to thrive, and I continue to gasp at it every time we walk by. I wish we had captured a picture of it for that post, but there was blotchy sunlight on it so it didn’t make the final cut. Actually the first time I thought “yeah, I want that” was back in 2009 when I saw one on the outside of this house that we crashed (yes, that’s 10 years ago! Even though 1999 sounds like 10 years ago in my head). We’ve wanted to try our hand at one for a while. Behold: our DIY wire vine diamond trellis. We snuck in a fun little project that I’ve been dying to try for, oh 10 years now. *This post has been updated with more recent photos, because plants take their merry old time growing, and it’s a lot more fun when there are updates* ![]()
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