At Amish Designers, our wood and vinyl pavilion designs combine style and function to increase your enjoyment and add to the beauty and value of your property. They can be very simple or quite elaborate to suit your taste and budget. Perhaps just a small overhang to cover a barbecue area, or something to cover your entire patio. Maybe you’d like to be able to use your hot tub more and reduce maintenance by having a custom hot tub pavilion. How about someplace for a swing or outdoor furniture. Don’t limit yourself to the pictures you see. Imagine what you would like to see and what you want to use it for. It doesn’t have to be 4-sided or even symmetrical. We love special challenges.
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- with 48′ Pergola Installed by local contractor from Kit
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- with Cedar Shakes
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- with or without drawings.
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- new hot tub has a new roof from Amish Designers.
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- rectangle, and then a pergola – WOW!
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- with 12″ wood posts and LVL Beams
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- Pittsdown, New Jersey
It may seem evident from looking at the pictures just what is a pavilion, but perhaps it might be helpful to point out some of their distinctive features. Generally speaking, a pavilion is a building without walls. Because it doesn’t have as many posts, and no walls or railings for support, it has heavier beams than gazebos and other structures. It typically stands on four legs, but can be customized to attach to an existing structure. While our standard designs have “hip” style roofs with 4 shingled surfaces, if you would like a pavilion customized for your home, we can create other styles as well. There are bell shaped and “A” designs. If you can imagine it, our master craftsmen can build it.
Wood and VInyl Pavilions have similarities to rectangular gazebos in that their purpose is to help you better enjoy your outdoor area, your friends and family. Aesthetically, they have a more open and contemporary feel and blend better with more modern design characteristics. Functionally, pavilions keep things like the rain, leaves, tree sap, etc. from dropping onto you, your furniture, and your outdoor kitchen or fireplace. Which choice you make will depend upon a combination of style and function. Something else to consider is that pavilions do NOT have screens. If you are drawn to pavilions because of the rectangular shape, you may consider a rectangular gazebo.
Most pavilions have posts on the corners rather than every few feet like gazebos, although longer spans require additional posts. Also, as mentioned earlier, if you prefer the rectangular shape, and want to keep the bugs out, you may opt for a rectangular gazebo with railings and screens. Screen systems require support provided by the railing and post structure of a gazebo. Many people don’t realize that gazebos are available in rectangular form.
The design possibilities are endless and perhaps a bit intimidating which is why at Amish Designers, we invite you to discuss with us the use of your new gazebo, pavilion or pergola toward making the best choice as well as the style of your home, and your style preferences. Do you want your outdoor enclosure to blend with the style of your home or to stand out? If you know exactly what you want, great! We can work with that too. We’re here to make your backyard dreams a reality.
As for getting your structure built and in place, refer to Installation Options. Our team will guide you every step of the way and we’ll work together to get the job done in the best and most cost-effective way possible.
Our option pricing is very reasonable making it easier to get your pavilion built the exact way you want it.
When designing your backyard and deciding on size, think through what you want to use the space for:
- How does the sun circle around the space. Do you need a curtain to hang down to provide more shade?
- What will the pavilion be mounted on. It’s going to weigh a few thousand pounds so on a practical level, it’s probably not going anywhere. However, installing concrete footers is a good idea just in case you have a “near miss” by a hurricane or tornado. Our extremely heavy duty bracket mount to the existing deck or piers. Our staff will tell you exactly where they need to be.
- Do you have pavers in place or are you planning on installing pavers for your pavilion? No problem. You just don’t want to try to mount your pavilion to the pavers. In a strong wind, it will just tear up your pavers. We can pull up the old pavers and cut them in around the posts. The post skirt will slide down over the bracket and also cover some of the imperfections in cutting in the pavers.
- What size do you need to pick? You don’t. It’s a little less if you build your piers in place of our standard pattern size, but it doesn’t take our staff long to adjust to small changes. They enjoy it really. They make about 1000 gazebos a year, and always enjoy something different to break things up.
- Are you considering attaching part of the pavilion to an existing structure. We’ll need to consider what roof line is best. It depends on what the back of your house looks like as to what roof style choices we recommend. These projects, too, we enjoy.
- If you want something totally out in left field, our engineers can design it. They know how we build things so what would take another engineer firm $3000 to model, we can have done for less than $1,000 depending on what it is. We have a step-by-step design process to lead you toward a successful and cost-effective project.
