An aluminum pergola from Lumina Collection Group is the frame of an outdoor room, not the finished thing. The roof is a set of motorized louvers that rotate to let the morning sun through, close against the heat of the afternoon, and overlap into a watertight canopy that drains through the posts when it rains. From there the room is built out: zip screens that drop to close off a side, glass doors that turn the space into a patio enclosure, and heaters, fans and lighting integrated into the structure so the room works after dark.
The frame is powder-coated aluminum, so it holds its finish without the sanding and re-staining timber asks for, and it is backed by a 25-year limited warranty. The same frame supports a louvered pergola in a garden, a pergola with louvered roof over a dining terrace or an aluminum patio cover on a house, so the system is sized to the space rather than the space adapted to the system.
A motorized pergola is difficult to judge from a rendering. The light through the louvers at different angles, the way a zip screen changes the feel of a space, the proportions of the frame: these are things to see in person, and the Panorama City showroom is where the system can be seen and handled before anything is specified.
Lumina also handles design consultation, custom sizing and installation, so a project can be planned against the actual footprint of a yard or terrace and built by the people who supplied it. The pergola sits alongside the fence, screen and turf collections, so the whole outdoor room can be planned from one supplier. Trade accounts are open to contractors and designers.
Visit the showroom Monday to Friday, or Sunday by appointment, and see the roof for yourself.
