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No. 93 Pergolas · Mid-Century Modern

Timber Dining Pergola with Hanging Lanterns

At night, string lights and hanging lanterns provide lighting across a timber dining pergola, concrete paver walkway, and breeze block wall fronting a mid-century modern post-and-beam house.

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

  • Clearance under the beams — 8 to 10 feet feels right
  • Slat spacing and orientation against the afternoon sun
  • Posts placed outside the furniture, never through it
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