Tips for your garden pergola design
A pergola is an outdoor garden feature that is generally designed as a shaded walkway, passageway, or seating area. A pergola tends to be a wide-open structure with four support beams, no walls, and a decorative roof design, such as a lattice. However, as we will suggest below, there are plenty of ways to use a pergola as a starting design that you add to for different purposes and areas of your garden. Pergolas are great for shade or even a touch of shelter from the elements, to help with this screens can be added to the roof or walls. Pergolas are the perfect garden structures on which to grow climbers and woody vines!
Take a look at our 8 tips/suggestions for pergola design in your garden:
✓ Include a solid roof in the design to make your pergola area rainproof
✓ Opt for a different look with modern slatting
✓ A solid wall on one or two sides to create privacy or to shelter from a windy spot
✓ Keep it simple and go large for the perfect outdoor dining spot
✓ Grow plants over them for colour and shade
✓ Use over a gate to add height and interest
✓ Add over a walkway to create shelter
✓ Add a balustrade to give interest and make the space feel enclosed and cosy
