How to build inexpensive shade cover for our manufactured home?
We have a small 675 sq. ft. manufactured home that needs shade cover on the south end (14 ft.) and along it's west facing side (48 ft.). We were thinking of an attached wood structure the length of the structure and then a single awning on south facing window or individual awnings for each of the 3 west facing windows. These windows are are 48"x 60". Thank you!
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You could use old ship sails. Tether and groment and for little money you have a one of a kind.shade sail.
Here are some DIY for sun sail shades, canopies, etc.: https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=how%20to%20make%20a%20shade%20for%20patio&rs=typed&term_meta[]=how%20to%20make%20a%20shade%20for%20patio%7Ctyped
canvas painters tarps
This is what I did. They come in many sizes and aren't that expensive.
http://knotsewperfectdesign.blogspot.com/2014/06/need-shade-lets-get-some.html
Judging from some of the answers that I see you given to other comments,it seems like you would like something a little more like a pergola, but I don't know if you want to wait for a plant to help shade in the area, or if you have the expense to build a pergola that big. If you didn't want to build a whole pergola you could do the stud work of a Pergola and then add the sail to it or just frame in the upper beams and have the plants grow right from the studs up onto the beans similar to a Pergola without all the extra wood involved that might work. You could also instead of using the plants, with the beams you could use fabric and go over and under and over and under until you reach the other end and do that periodically all the way up to the top to give yourself the shade that you want right now and you can find fabric just about anywhere you know discounted or on sale. I would look for outdoor fabric that way you would get more longevity out of it