People who have found that resting and having fun in their backyards is fun are often thinking about what else they can add to make their outdoor space even better. People who love their backyards want to keep making changes because each one adds beauty, visual appeal, and a chance to have fun.
Adding to your landscape can help give your home a mood or personality, and it can also show how nice and welcoming your family is. You might want to add a gazebo to your yard as your next landscaping project. This is why:
1.Pergolas (further) Extend Your Living Space
If you have a deck or patio, you probably put it there to make your living area bigger than the space inside your house. Maybe you love your outdoor living space but find it less useful when it’s really hot outside, or maybe you wish you had some shade when the weather is bad. In this case, an outdoor pergola might be just what you need.
A pergola makes your living area bigger and lets you spend more time outside. If you plan and place your pergola correctly on your property, it can provide enough light shade to make even a hot afternoon fun. If you still need more protection, you can add a retractable shade cover.
Some shade covers will even keep you dry in light rain, which is great for summer storms that can happen at any time.
2.Design Options Abound with Pergolas
“Custom or kit?” is the first thing you’ll need to answer when you decide to add a gazebo to your yard. An experienced landscaper in your area can help you create a pergola from scratch and build it in your backyard, or you can buy a kit from one of the many well-known U.S. manufacturers.
You won’t have as much freedom with the design—rectangles and fixed sizes are usually the only options—but all the parts will be brought to your house so that your landscaper can put them together and place them.
The next choice you make will be about materials. There are different kinds of products to choose from, and each has pros and cons:
Pressure-treated wood: A pergola made of pressure-treated wood is usually the least expensive choice. Pressure-treated wood will last a long time, but it can bend, crack, and check over time. Most of the time, painting or staining this kind of trellis makes it look its best.
Cedar wood: Western Red Cedar is a common type of cedar used for pergolas. It naturally keeps bugs away and looks great right from the sawmill. If you don’t do anything to it, it will turn a soft silver gray. If you paint and seal it, the color will stay. A pressure-treated pergola is less expensive than a cedar pergola, but the cedar pergola will usually last longer.
Vinyl: If you want a gazebo that doesn’t need much upkeep, vinyl is a great option. Vinyl pergolas aren’t easy to paint, though, so you can only choose from a few colors.
Fiberglass: Most of the time, fiberglass pergolas are the most expensive option, but they have a lot of good points. Glass fiber is very strong, so you can span much farther without posts (up to 20 feet in some cases), which makes it look better.
What color you want to paint fiberglass? It will last longer than paint on wood. Last but not least, aluminum pergolas are great for adding to a deck or an already-built patio. Because fiberglass pergolas are so light, they don’t need as deep footers as pergolas made of other materials.
3.Pergolas Are an Entertainer’s Dream
A lot of the time, the real magic of a pergola happens when the builders are done and the structure starts to shape and serve your outdoor living space. You can hang chandeliers, ceiling fans (but please check with your landscape artist first!), small speakers, strings of lights, even fabric from a pergola. Your mind is the only thing that can stop you.
You can add more room to your outdoor area with a pergola. They come in many styles and can be made to fit any budget. For those who want to make their outdoor space a place of peace or energy (or both), a pergola could be the right addition to their deck or patio.