Outdoor living
The best backyards in South Florida are not a pergola plus a grill plus a television. They are one structure that was designed to hold all of it — where the lighting is in the ceiling, the wiring is inside the frame, and the kitchen and the roof were drawn at the same time.
Most backyards get built in layers, years apart. The pool goes in, then the deck, then someone adds a grill, then a shade structure gets put over part of it, and finally a television gets mounted somewhere it half works. Each step is reasonable on its own, and the result is a space that never quite resolves.
Designing the structure and everything it carries at the same time changes the outcome in specific, visible ways. Lighting sits recessed in a soffit instead of clamped to a beam. Speaker and television wiring runs inside hollow extrusions instead of in surface conduit down a post. A ceiling fan hangs from blocking that was put there for it, at a height that actually works. Counter runs and roof edges line up. The screen is shaded at four in the afternoon because someone checked where the sun would be.
None of that is expensive to plan. All of it is expensive — or impossible — to retrofit.
A freestanding structure at the far side of the pool that turns the deck into a destination rather than a walkway. Usually where the kitchen, the bar and the seating all end up.
A solid or insulated roof extending the house outward, giving you a genuinely dry, cooler room that furniture can live in permanently.
The structure and the kitchen designed together, so headroom, venting, power, water and counter runs all resolve instead of colliding.
A purpose-built wall carrying a television and speakers, positioned so the screen is shaded at the hours you actually use it.
Fixed slat panels or roll-down screens on the exposed side — for neighbours, for low western sun, or for both.
Rain curtains and similar features integrated into the roof edge rather than added beside it. See the cabana project in the gallery.
Our work
Cabanas, covered patios and outdoor kitchens we have built across South Florida — several photographed mid-installation.
Outdoor Living
A freestanding cabana in bronze aluminum with slatted privacy walls, an integrated outdoor kitchen and a rain-curtain water feature that falls from the roof edge into the pool deck.
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An attached pergola over a travertine pool deck, wrapping a full outdoor kitchen and bar with a wood-look soffit, recessed lights and speakers.
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A wide covered patio finished with warm wood-look ceiling panels and a matching slat feature wall, opening onto the yard through a white pergola frame.
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A poolside lounge structure with a dark slat back wall, integrated television niche and uplighting that washes the courtyard wall after sunset.
The most useful first message is a description of how you want to use the space — cooking, dining, lounging, watching something, all of it — plus photographs from a couple of angles and rough dimensions.
From there we can tell you whether you are looking at a pergola, a full cabana, or something in between, and what it takes to build it where you want it.
Tell us everything you want the space to do. It is much cheaper to resolve it on paper than on site.