The louvered roof is the ceiling. Screens are what close the sides. They drop from the beams in concealed tracks, shut out wind, insects, low sun and the neighbours, then retract completely out of sight. This is the add-on more clients ask for than any other.
Every one of these is planned with the structure — wired inside the frame, sized to your space, and controlled alongside the roof. That is the difference between an accessory and an afterthought.
The tracks and the cassette sit inside the columns and beams, behind the custom trim. With the screens up you cannot see the hardware; with them down the room reads as a room, not a tented patio.
Designed in from the start is cheaper and cleaner, because the tracks are built into the columns. We also retrofit screens to pergolas we built years ago — and to plenty we did not.
Wind carrying your heat away, insects at dusk, low sun straight into the seating, and a neighbour’s sightline. Screens are the only accessory that solves all four.
A roof keeps the rain off. Screens plus heaters are what make the space usable in April and November — the roof alone does not.
Insect mesh, solar mesh that cuts most of the UV while keeping the view, privacy mesh, or clear vinyl for full weather closure. Different sides of the same pergola often get different mesh.
On the same remote and app as the louvers, the lighting and the heat. Wind sensors retract them automatically when a gust crosses the safe range.
Every photo below is a Breslow installation across New Jersey, New York and Connecticut.
Want screens without a pergola?
Screens go on porches, patios, gazebos and garage bays with no pergola involved. The motorized screens product page covers those openings and carries a price assistant that gives you a real investment range in about a minute.
Accessories are priced with the project, not bolted on after.
Size drives the investment first, then attachment to the house, then what you add. The pergola page publishes the full range — from around $65,000 for a 16 × 20 ft system — and exactly what that figure includes. See what it costs and what you get.
A free Zoom consultation first, then photorealistic renderings of the whole room on your actual home — structure, motorized screens and all — with a fixed-price proposal. Engineering and permitting handled or assisted where required.
