Pergola Designs for Your Garden

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If you have a patio or deck, a rooflike structure will extend the amount of time you spend outdoors entertaining guests or relaxing. With the growing popularity of outdoor living spaces, it can increase a home's value. Before jumping into a pergola project, consider the following:

• Orientation: North, south, east, or west-facing.
• Materials: These can include hardwood to plywood, metals, prefabricated materials, fabric, and glass.
• Budget: The two biggest expenses will be labor and materials. If your budget is limited (and that's most of us), this is where resourcefulness, smart planning, DIY skills, and creativity come into play.
• Contractor vs. DIY: Who is going to build it? Will it be a do-it-yourself project or will you hire a contractor? A prefab pergola kit is an alternative.
• Building codes: Also, who is going to design it? Most outdoor structures require the approval of a building inspector or planning commissioner. Your local government office should have guidelines on setback and height restrictions.
• Zoning laws: Do you need to obtain city, county, or regional zoning laws and approvals? Depending on where you live, this process can take a long time, so stay on top of it if you want the project done within the next few months or even year. Committees sometimes meet sporadically and applications can fall through the cracks. 

1.Cedar and Reclaimed Barn Wood

After completing the interior renovations of this charming, 1920s-era home in Chicago’s northern suburbs, the Sweet Peas Design team added a limestone patio sheltered by a natural cedar pergola trimmed with reclaimed barn wood. The pergola anchors and defines a curvaceous patio and rear entry while providing architectural interest, texture, and heft. The natural cedar, which will turn gray over time, is a rustic complement to the vintage bricks of this nearly 100-year-old home, while the barn wood is echoed in the shutters on the carriage house.

2.Southwestern Patio

Connecting to three exterior walls of this Chandler, Arizona-based home, the rugged-beamed pergola shelters this area into a courtyard-style patio. Not only does it unify the area, but the roof also helps to cool down rooms inside, helping to cut down on air conditioning use. The home was designed and built by Forte Homes.

3.Cleveland Contemporary

While the architectural style of this house in the Cleveland, Ohio suburb of Pepper Pike is considered traditional, its backyard and pergola are contemporary or even modern. Designed by ​9th Avenue Designs, the pool is rectangular, the landscaping echoes or frames the pool and patio, and the pergola is flat and simple. A sleek, modern outdoor sectional, rectangular fire pit and slat tables make this a clean, inviting space.   

4.Outdoor Dining

Built between two outside walls, this pergola takes on an arbor-like role in that it supports vines and a New Zealand tree fern (which resembles a feathered palm). Constructed by Bay Area Construction Homes, the home is located in Atherton, California.

5.Midcentury Ranch Pergola

Space between the new addition of this Detroit-area house and the garage became a deck. Homeowner Elin Walters of Exactly Designs added a partition wall to block her family's view of their next-door neighbors and serve as a window treatment for the sliding door. The pergola ceiling is made of plumbing pipe, while the house, partition, and garage are faced in cement board. 

6.Light-Filtering Pergola

Designed by Emeritus ​in Nantucket, Massachusetts, this pergola helps define the south-facing outdoor space, which is located directly off the interior living areas and filters the strong southern light. The pergola also serves to animate the space as the sun moves from east to west throughout the day.

7.Pergola in Paradise

On the southwestern shores of Maui, this Makena Beach home designed and built by Architectural Design & Construction, Inc. features seamless transitions from indoors to outdoors. Not surprisingly, from any angle, the view is breathtaking—whether it's the turquoise sea, lush tropical trees, or carefully selected native plants throughout the landscape. Supported by stone-covered posts, the wood beams and rafters are flat, simple, horizontal, and do not block that view. The architect was Nishikawa Architects, Inc. and interior designer was Ahura Designs.

8.Hot Tub Hideaway

While this pergola doesn't project too far from the back of the house, it does serve an important purpose: It provides shelter and privacy for the homeowners' hot tub. Designed and built by Paradise Restored, the Portland, Oregon yard was completely redesigned to incorporate separate areas of activity that blend effortlessly.

9.Greenwich Pergola

While an overhead is practical, it also creates a dynamic architectural element to a landscape. Luminosus Designs' simple wooden pergola makes the outdoor dining area more intimate while providing shelter.

10.Indoor/Outdoor Transition

Walk a straight line from the backyard through the dining room/den to the terrace/veranda and you won't be interrupted by any doors. The terrace is clearly an extension of the open interior, protected by a pergola. Furnishings were designed by the internationally recognized firm Meredith Baer Home.

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