Diy Retractable Awning Pergola

Add extra shade and style to your outdoor living space with a wire hung canopy system.

Diy retractable awning pergola.

Large eye screws do the sliding and make easy work of extending and retracting the canopy. Next measure the distance of the screw eyes from one to the other on your pergola and then place the drapery hooks at those measurements. It uses outdoor fabric to create some shade and rain protection and is the easiest way to cover your pergola. I hemmed the edges as well.

If you are never going to want sun on your patio then a diy stationary pergola canopy is probably the way to go. When retracted this diy pergola canopy tucks neatly away at one end of the structure. Hook the other end of the turnbuckle onto your screw eye and fasten the opposite end in a loop with wire clamps as shown above. With a retractable canopy the fabric is attached to support boards that slide along tensioned stainless steel cables called wire ropes.