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    Mahogany, bamboo, and the slight concavity of the rooflilne give the gazebo and Asian flare. Remodeler David est's team covered the ceiling with rolls of bamboo fencing. To hide the framing, which would be visible behind the bamboo, they first covered the are with blywood painted to match the bamboo color.

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    The bottom right of this photo shows anchor bolts in the rock and aircraft cable that keep the lower deck platform from sliding down the cliff. The team crafted the railings in the shop by beveling the top rail for water drainage and drilling holds in the top and bottom rails to hold the copper pipe balusters. The prevent water from collecting in the pipes and being trapped in the bottom rail, the crew poked a 1/8-inch drainage hole in the bottom rail under each pipe.

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    West's crew crafted 75 decorative mahogany brackets using a full-scale cardboard template of the architect's design.

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    The client liked the location of the original structures, but they were dilapidated and outdated.

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    The homeowner hired a landscape company to work on renovating the pool and grounds. That firm created a temporary road that helped West's crew transport materials. However, the road was too narrow for lumber trucks, so materials had to be transferred to a pickup truck or carried about 100 yards to the site.

The team at Meadowview Construction built this dramatic gazebo and deck overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. David West, owner of the Georgetown, Mass., company, says that the unique design of the $80,000 renovation and its cliff-side location required many of the construction details to be worked out on the jobsite.

Architect Rob Bramhall of Rob Bramhall Architects, in Andover, Mass., who designed both the gazebo and the adjoining open deck, specified mahogany, ipe, bamboo, and copper.

Crews framed new pressure-treated platforms for both structures and attached them to existing concrete posts with stainless steel anchors. “All metal fasteners had to be stainless steel because of the water exposure,” West says.

Though the platforms and posts are pressure-treated lumber, all the visible wood is mahogany, including the pre-made post sleeves. The ipe decking required a multistep installation process that included attaching the hidden fastening system and sealing the cut end of each board. “It’s a tricky product and difficult to work with,” West says.

The crew made the mahogany and copper railings in the shop. They installed copper shingles and carefully flashed around the skylight, a custom unit made of two sheets of tempered glass filled with argon. To create the aged patina the owners wanted on all the copper elements, the crew used a garden sprayer to apply a liquid accelerating agent.