Build any of four different garden structures in your backyard with these free downloadable plans and illustrated step-by-step instructions.

For more than 50 years, The Family Handyman Magazine has been providing readers with great home improvement projects with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, plans and photographs. Now, many of their best backyard structure building articles are available online, so you can learn how to build your own gazebo, pergola or arbor with these free downloadable plans.

Select the projects that you are interested in and then click on their titles to get to the "Editor's Picks" downloadable plan sets. These are multi-page, illustrated guides, so please be patient while the files download from The Family Handyman to your computer:

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