No. 43 Patios · Mid-Century Modern
Breeze Block Patio with Dining Pergola
A mid-century modern courtyard features a flat roof, post-and-beam timber pergola, concrete pavers, a wooden dining table with benches, and a decorative breeze block screen beside an orange door.
Design notes
Mid-century modern design lines everything up with the house. Look for flat roofs and post-and-beam overhangs, walls of glass, breeze-block screens, terrazzo or large concrete pads with gravel joints, and a rectangular pool set square to the architecture. Planting is sculptural and sparse — agave, yucca, olive, citrus, a Mediterranean fan palm — and colour comes from a single accent: an orange door, turquoise water, a yellow umbrella.
What to look for
- The paving material and how its joints are handled
- Whether the furniture footprint fits with room to move
- Shade at 4 pm, not just at noon






