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A louvered pergola has an adjustable roof made of angled slats you can tilt open for sun, close for shade, or pitch flat to shed rain, so one structure covers every kind of afternoon. The louvered model we carry is...
Buy the wrong pergola and you end up with a wobbly frame, a footprint that swallows half your patio, and a weekend of swearing at mislabeled hardware. The best pergola kit overall is the Outdoor Living Today Urban Escape 10x10...
To hang string lights on a pergola, measure the full run your lights will travel, divide that length by your bulb spacing to size the strands, then mount removable hooks or clips every 1 to 3 feet and hang each...
Yes, you can attach a pergola to a house that has gutters, but never hang the structure from the gutter itself. The gutter is thin aluminum built to carry water, not the weight of beams and rafters. Instead, bolt a...
Pick the wrong one and you get a flimsy lattice panel where you wanted a shaded patio, or a heavy overhead structure where all you needed was something for roses to climb. A pergola is a large overhead structure you...
Yes, but with an honest caveat: a bare pergola gives you partial, dappled shade, not the full overhead cover of a roof. Those open slats are designed to filter sunlight, not block it. To get real, sit-all-afternoon shade, you add...
The fastest way to choose between a pergola and a gazebo is to ask one question: do you need real cover from rain and harsh sun, or just open-air dappled shade? A gazebo gives you a fully roofed outdoor room....
Most homeowners spend between $30 and $65 per square foot installed for a professionally built pergola, which works out to roughly $2,900 for a basic 8x8 and $8,000 to $10,000 for a 200 square foot structure. Elaborate custom designs run...
Pick the wrong wood and your pergola gray-rots at the post bases within a few seasons, no matter how clean the joinery is. For most backyards, western red cedar is the best wood for a pergola. It naturally resists rot,...
Skip the prep and your stain will peel within a season, no matter how expensive the can was. To stain a pergola the right way, clean and brighten the wood, sand it lightly with 80 to 120 grit, let it...
Buy the wrong pergola and you are left with a structure that bakes in the afternoon sun, overwhelms a small patio, or rots out in five years. Choosing well comes down to six decisions: material, size, freestanding or attached, roof...
You cannot reliably anchor a pergola into loose pavers alone, because a single brick floating on sand has almost no holding power against wind. The durable methods reach past the pavers to the compacted base or a poured footing below....
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