Building a Sukkah, Part I

Josh has, for a long time, been talking about building a sukkah to cover the whole deck. Well, finally he's done it (part I)! Here is the sukkah, of his own design:

Step 1: Buy a bunch of wood. (8 [2x4], 20 [1x2], 1 [1x6], 1/4" dowels)



Notch 2 of the [2x4]s to fit the [1x6] 4 inches deep. Drill and add 2 dowels to the top of all 8 [2x4]s.

Slide the 1x6 into the notches, and the [1x2]s (on the taller axis) onto the dowels (having first cut them to size and having drilled holes into them, obviously).

By adding a few dowels along the short side of the sukkah, the extra 12 [1x2]s can be stood up to be a foundation for the schach.
Tada--(the structure of) a sukkah the size of the deck!
Next up: walls (tarps?) and schach (4 [4x8] bamboo mats).