I have a question for all you pros or hand doityourselfers out there. I purchased a beautiful metal freestanding pergola from Sears earlier this spring. It is still in the box, but it comes in pieces ready to assemble. Here is a link (it's really long, so I hope it works!): http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/product.do?cat=Patio+Furniture&pid=07180610000&vertical=LAWN&subcat=Patio+Furniture&BV_SessionID=@@@@0759546696.1180025482@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccfgaddkmldmmelcefecemldffidfni.0

Anyway, my patio is actually longer than this pergola, so I thought that I would try to reconfigure it to meet my needs by attaching it directly to my house on otwo sides. It is made to be freestanding with 4 pillars for support. But, if I attach it under the eaves somehow, then that would give me two unused pillars to use to extend the thing further if I could order some more beams from the manufacturer or get some metal beams and paint them to match. I would not use the fabric cover that comes with it, because in my Texas wind, I know that it would just give me problems anyway.

I know that this is most likely a project that is beyond my limited expertise. But, do you think that I could hire someone to figure out how to make this work for me? Any advice would be really appreciated! My patio is roughly 11x20, and is situated so that 2 sides of it border a wall of the house (outside house walls make an "L", and patio fills in the space plus extends out beyond a bit). Any thoughts? Thanks!