Vigas
The house we are buying in Santa Fe has brand new stucco and a brand new roof, both installed in 2016. That's the good news -- actually very good news for us as buyers.
The bad news is that when they did the re-stucco work they took down decorative vigas that rested across a beam over the small patio.
That long span of wood between the house walls once had rounded trunk beams (vigas) across it. They did not shade the area, but they provided definition and finished the look.
These terribly shot photos show what it had looked like originally.
Once we get moved in, I want to find a contractor who will put vigas back up across the beam.
But then I got thinking, should we cover them to provide shade? The enclosed patio area faces southwest, so afternoon sun will be on it. The sliding glass doors are off the living room. If the living room gets too hot and sunny, perhaps a shaded portal would be better.
Maybe like this, with a flat wood roof covering the beams?
Or like this, angled down from the wall?
The living room has skylights, but the sliding doors are the only window area to the outside, so I don't want to make the room too dark with a covered portal over the patio. The patio is already enclosed by walls on three sides. It may be too confining with a roof over it as well.
The open vigas resting on the cross beam would let light in, and keep the open, original look of this little area.
It depends on how much we may need shade over that patio, or how much we need to keep light coming in. We will, of course, have to live there for a while to be able to tell. But in my mind I have already moved in and I'm ready to call a contractor.
The bad news is that when they did the re-stucco work they took down decorative vigas that rested across a beam over the small patio.
That long span of wood between the house walls once had rounded trunk beams (vigas) across it. They did not shade the area, but they provided definition and finished the look.
These terribly shot photos show what it had looked like originally.
Once we get moved in, I want to find a contractor who will put vigas back up across the beam.
But then I got thinking, should we cover them to provide shade? The enclosed patio area faces southwest, so afternoon sun will be on it. The sliding glass doors are off the living room. If the living room gets too hot and sunny, perhaps a shaded portal would be better.
Maybe like this, with a flat wood roof covering the beams?
Or like this, angled down from the wall?
The living room has skylights, but the sliding doors are the only window area to the outside, so I don't want to make the room too dark with a covered portal over the patio. The patio is already enclosed by walls on three sides. It may be too confining with a roof over it as well.
The open vigas resting on the cross beam would let light in, and keep the open, original look of this little area.
It depends on how much we may need shade over that patio, or how much we need to keep light coming in. We will, of course, have to live there for a while to be able to tell. But in my mind I have already moved in and I'm ready to call a contractor.
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