Sometimes you can just feel that a space is missing a little something...while we've been slowly adding things here and there to our back deck I kept thinking that it would feel a lot more complete if it had a simple pergola over the floor to tie that area into the house a bit more. I love the super clean lines of pergolas that I see in vintage photos so I wanted to do something that would blend in with the era of our mid-century home. It sounds like a daunting task but it actually wasn't that hard to build once we had a plan together—I'll show you what we did:
