Over the past couple months, Jason has been busy planning, purchasing materials, and constructing our pergola... He completed it on Sunday morning! We knew that we wouldn't be taking any major vacations this year (first time in 9 years) due to the priority of starting our family. So, we decided to take that money and put it into a pergola in our backyard. About year after we moved in, we added the pool which has been a lot of fun! But, our backyard gets 100% sun during the day so it also gets quite warm. We had an umbrella for our table and were putting up a pop-up tent thing each time we had pool parties for shade, but I think this will be so much better! The other good thing is that this is right off of our kitchen/dining room - both get really warm in the summer so this will hopefully help keep those rooms a little cooler!
You might be wondering why the posts and top are different colors -- we actually had planned for the whole thing to be white since our fence is white. We quickly learned that you cannot paint treated wood until it completely dries - about three months. The posts were already purchased at that point so we decided to leave it like this for now. I know the boards will change color over time so it won't be as much of a contrast. We'll see how it looks over time.
What do you think? I was quite impressed with Jason's skills!!!
You might be wondering why the posts and top are different colors -- we actually had planned for the whole thing to be white since our fence is white. We quickly learned that you cannot paint treated wood until it completely dries - about three months. The posts were already purchased at that point so we decided to leave it like this for now. I know the boards will change color over time so it won't be as much of a contrast. We'll see how it looks over time.
10 comments:
i love the new pergola!! he did a great job!
It is by far the best Pergola I have ever seen. The craftsmenship looks outstanding. I think the builder deserves a nice steak dinner for his efforts. The triplets are gonna love it under there. I know I enjoy laying under it already.
Kahlua Dogg Patterson
The pergola looks great - and the house is absolutely beautiful.
I think it looks amazing! Job well done. A pool and a fancy new pergoal, your backyard is almost like being on vacation.
you have a great handy man in Jason. Great job!!!
Looks awesome, can't wait to hang out by the pool in the shade!!!
I agree with KDogg Jason might need a steak dinner!!!
Good job Jason. Looks great!
Wow, I'm impressed! Would Jason want to come and build one in our backyard, too??! :)
i think it looks great! jason did an awesome job!
K Dogg - couldn't agree with you more! Jonathan is going to be jealous of this and will want one for our house!! Jason did a fabulous job, it completely changes up your back yard!! Can't wait to see it and sip a nice adult beverage under it!!!!
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