As per definition, a pergola is an outdoor structure consisting of parallel rows of evenly spaced columns, supporting an open roof of girders and cross rafters.
To put it more simply, a pergola is a wall-less structure that can be used as a free-standing design element in your exteriors.
Gone are the days when we lived in tandem with our neighbours, as one single large family. Now-a-days all of us want our privacy and are not ready to compromise it for anything in the world.
That brings us to the importance of good fencing or boundary wall design and the famous poem by Robert Frost that said “Good fences make good neighbours”.
I need someone older and wiser telling me what to do.
Remember the young Liesl von Trapp from the 1965 musical, The Sound of Music, spending a cosy evening with her boyfriend in the park? Suddenly thunder strikes and the two seek shelter in a closed wooden structure where they spend the rest of the evening dancing and singing. Well, it‘s hard for movie buffs to forget the scene and the song and the closed wooden structure; which incidentally is the topic of our discussion today! The gazebo, that is! 🙂
“Good fences make good neighbors” – Robert Frost.
Remember the good old childhood days when you just had to jump over the fence to visit your dear friend next door; your grandmother sharing her secret recipes or tiny bits of local news to her neighbor over a cup of coffee at the fence.
When it comes to landscaping all we can think of is “Green”. In fact, when gardeners take up a landscaping project, more often than not, plants are their only point of concern. Amidst the puzzling choice of apt flowers and grass, we often dismiss off elements like landscaping stones. To most of us, landscaping stones and paving stones are a relatively unimportant element. However, without these landscaping stones, your garden would be nothing but a boring green space.
First impressions always carry the best impressions. Months of painstaking planning and construction should entail that your residence is a stand-out for all the right reasons. Looks do matter and it is the exteriors of a house that captures the eye first, more than anything else. Though ‘beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder’, some important pointers to help you in deciding the exteriors in house construction:
