Shade Cloth Ideas

Garden Cover

• You can design a garden cover to create a greenhouse type of space for your plants. To save time and resources, try attaching a shade cloth to existing vertical structures such as the house and an adjacent fence. This will keep your plants that like shade in a cool area away from the sun's direct rays.

Patio or Pergola Cover

• You can use shade cloths to expand your outdoor living area in a cost-effective manner. If you build a pergola, you can simply fasten a shade cloth on top of the pergola to provide maximum protection from the sun without building a full patio roof. You can select from a variety of opacity depending on how much of the sun's light you want to shine through.

Pool Enclosure

• You can create a wall structure using two different types of shade cloths to enable different shading effects. One example of this could be an outdoor pool enclosure that has a heavier cloth (90% UV block) that is stretched inside a stick frame. The shade cloth can start from the floor level and extend up four or five feet (to create privacy), followed by a more translucent shade cloth that extends to the top of the frame (to allow light to enter).