Patio Ideas
The gauze-like scrim above abstracts the tree canopy here, while the thin columns appears as tree trunks. Note that although the architect used simple rectangular elements, the look doesn’t suffer. These simple shapes are overlapped — the pool edge, the overhead scrim and the terrace seating — to make the design visually complex and dynamic. Even the transition zones overlap from the covered porch to the shaded seating area.
The gauze-like scrim above abstracts the tree canopy here, while the thin columns appears as tree trunks. Note that although the architect used simple rectangular elements, the look doesn’t suffer. These simple shapes are overlapped — the pool edge, the overhead scrim and the terrace seating — to make the design visually complex and dynamic. Even the transition zones overlap from the covered porch to the shaded seating area.
Pergola structure: 3½- by 3½-inch steel tube posts with 4- by 10-inch steel beams around the perimeter. All the steel has been painted black. Patio cover: 2- by 6-inch western redcedar slats rest on a 2- by 2-inch angled steel piece welded inside of the perimeter beams. Blocks between the slats help with stability and continue the solid-wood look around the frame’s perimeter. The slats are stained with a semitransparent, oil-based stain to match the wood siding of the house. Pergola dimensions: 10 feet deep, 20 feet wide and 9 feet tall (to the bottom of the beams) Attached or detached? Detached. The pergola is 30 inches away from the pool house, and the posts are aligned with the pool house edges and garage door openings, and centered in the other direction on the grill.
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