Pergolas in West Chester, OH

West Chester (ZIP 45069) decks are large and properly furnished. There is a table, a lounger or two, and a planter at the corner. The structure that suits it is not a rectangle set in the middle of the boards. It is a shape drawn around the places people actually sit.

A pergola gives this household shade in the late afternoon, which is the hour the deck is in use. It also gives a wide open surface an edge overhead, so one end reads as a seating area and not as more floor. What you get is somewhere to eat outside at five that is not hot.

The middle of a deck is the part nobody uses. A table usually sits at the end nearest the door. A lounger sits at the far corner, where the afternoon sun reaches it. A structure centered between those two shades the walking space and leaves both seats in full sun.

So the furniture goes on the drawing first, in the positions it really occupies. We draw the outline around that, then push it a few feet toward the sun. Shade falls away from a frame late in the day. What comes out is often off center, sometimes an L, sometimes two smaller frames. We set the corners out on the deck with you before a post is cut.