10 Ideas To Make Your Backyard More Enjoyable
Want to enhance your backyard? We’re sharing 10 ideas to make your backyard more enjoyable.
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ECCO’s motorized, retractable awnings are our best-selling shade products. Customers love the shade and rain protection our retractable awnings offer. Coming in various sizes and customizable fabric colors, patterns, and styles, a motorized retractable awning by ECCO lets you enjoy sun or shade at the touch of a button—with remote, wall control, or even smart voice activation. This product is an ideal choice to turn your unused deck, patio, or balcony into a cool, comfortable place to relax.
ECCO’s pergola systems with canopies are a top choice for homeowners looking for adjustable shade and rain protection around their pool area, patio, deck, or terrace, and especially outdoor dining areas. Our dual-layer canopy systems provide extra protection as the canopy fabric slides across an aluminum frame or under pergola rafters, either manually or motorized. Made in the USA with top-notch materials and fabrics in an array of colors and patterns- our pergolas are built for functionality, durability, and style. Our Pergola Canopies allow you and your guests more ways to enjoy your backyard.
Enhance your outdoor living space with a Louvered Roof Pergola System installed by ECCO. These best-in-class Louvered Roof Pergola Systems allow you to have sun when you want it, and shade when you don’t. Their open and closing features, with pivoting louvers that rotate a full 170°, offer precise control over sunlight, shade, and airflow. Designed for year-round enjoyment, the louvers close securely, protecting from rain, or open wide to welcome in daylight and fresh air.
Solar Shades (also known as Motorized Shades) are ideal shade products for outdoor living spaces such as covered patios, porches, balconies, decks, pergolas, sunrooms and pool enclosures. Homeowners also enjoy installing these shade products over garage doors, entryways, sliding glass doors, and windows. These drop-down mesh shades block sun, wind, and bugs without blocking the view. While homeowners love the comfort motorized screens and shades provide to sun-prone spaces, they also enjoy their sleek design that adds beauty to your home. Our Solar Shades are Made in the USA and come in varying degrees of shade capability. Being motorized, you get shade and protection when you want it, and sun when you don’t – all at the touch of a button.
Our Open-Air Cabanas are freestanding shade structures that combine comfort and simplicity with a hint of resort style chic. These versatile Made in the USA shade structures come in a variety of shapes (square, rectangular, or octagonal) with customizable options in your choice of fabric and frame colors. Not only do our Outdoor Cabanas provide your backyard living space with privacy and intimacy, but they also provide shade and can lower the temperature of your space by as much as 20 degrees. Our Custom Cabanas are perfect for a variety of spaces to provide shade and privacy in your backyard. Consider a poolside cabana, patio cabana, or terrace cabana to give a touch of luxury to your outdoor living space.
ECCO’s Tension Shades are sleek, motorized fabric structures that provide retractable sun protection at the touch of a button. The fabric glides smoothly along a custom frame and retracts into a protective cassette when not in use, combining modern design with practical function. These systems can be mounted above or below glass roofs or pergolas, or attached to a wall with supporting legs—perfect for shading patios, large decks, or conservatories with ease and style. Custom made to fit your needs, Tension Shades by ECCO are the latest in new technology to keep you comfortable outdoors.
ECCO’s Horizontal Shades offer a sleek, side-to-side retractable solution for added privacy, wind protection, and lateral sun control on decks, patios, porches, and terraces. Pulled from the side and secured to a wall or post, these shades block low-angle sun, and pair well with ECCO’s vertical shade products. Their ability to create a fabric wall between neighbors, make our Horizontal Shades a fan-favorite of townhouse and condo owners. Customizable in size, color, and fabric weave for desired privacy or light filtration, they are ideal for west-facing spaces. Built with premium materials and backed by ECCO’s best-in-class warranty, Horizontal Shades combine function, style, and lasting performance.
If you are looking for an affordable shade product to upgrade an outdoor living space that is overwhelmed with direct intense sun and needing a protective cover from rain to enhance your space – a Porch or Patio Cover by ECCO could be the perfect fit. Available as Solid Insulated, Acrylic, or Hybrid, our custom-designed and installed Patio Covers are ideal for patios, decks, or even driveways as carports. With a sleek, maintenance-free design and durable construction backed by a best-in-class warranty, ECCO’s covers are a stylish and lasting outdoor upgrade.
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Need shade, privacy, or weather protection? Use this feature-based guide to find the right ECCO product for your outdoor space.
Looking for a particular element in your backyard shade product? Whether you’re seeking sun protection, rain coverage, or a modern design, this guide will help you narrow your search based on the features that matter most to you:
Looking to beat the heat? Most of our shade products provide sun protection, but each offers varying degrees and delivery methods.
Want more privacy from neighbors or street views?
Try Horizontal Shades, Solar Shades, or add drop-down screens to your Motorized Awning, Pergola, or Outdoor Cabana.
Don’t let showers ruin your time outdoors.
For the best rain coverage, explore our Louvered Roof Pergolas or Patio Covers. Solar Shades also offer light rain protection.
Keep the pests away while still enjoying the view.
Solar Shades provide an excellent barrier against bugs. If a bug-free zone is your top priority, consider a Screen Room or Sunroom for full enclosure.
Many of our shade products are free-standing, while others connect to an existing element of your home.
Our louvered roof pergolas, pergola canopies, open air cabanas, and patio covers are all free-standing shade options.
Love a clean, contemporary look?
Consider a Louvered Roof Pergola, Open-Air Cabana, Tension Shade, or Patio Cover.
All of our shade products come in customizable options allowing to best blend in with your home’s aesthetic, and nail your style.
Want to enhance your backyard? We’re sharing 10 ideas to make your backyard more enjoyable.
There are many benefits to installing a retractable awning to your home. Most notably, Hampton Roads homeowners love the benefit of shade that awnings provide from the scorching sun on their deck, patio, or porch. But shade is not the only benefit. Learn more about why you should consider a retractable awning.
Not only do retractable awnings enhance your outdoor living space, lower your energy costs, and achieve long-term savings. Learn more about the benefits of a retractable awning.
Awnings are designed with a primary goal as a sun shade, not a rain cover. As such, the awning fabric is designed so you don’t swelter while under it using a fabric that can “breathe.” Our Teflon® coating helps repel moisture, but it is not waterproof. A light rain is okay – but water should not be allowed to collect in an extended awning. Keeping the awning extended during a heavy rain is not advised. It will cause water to collect in the fabric and could cause damage to the awning or event cause it to collapse.
Not only are retractable awnings a feature to add beauty to your home, they are also practical as well. Retractable awnings provide you with shade when you need it and sun when you want it. In addition to giving you shade on demand; retractable awnings block up to 94% of the sun’s harmful UV rays. Making your time outside more enjoyable, and safer.
ECCO’s patio awnings extend up to 13 feet. Our estate awning can be as wide as 40 feet. We offer Slim Fit Awnings that can be as narrow as 7-feet. Schedule an in-home consultation to learn which awning is best for your project.
ECCO’s awnings come in more than 300 options including solid, stripe, and tweed. Our awning fabrics are solution dyed acrylic fabrics. These fabrics will not mildew or rot like the old-fashioned canvas awnings. All of ECCO’s awning fabrics are covered by a manufacturer’s warranty. Selections in the Craft-Bilt collection include a 12-year warranty and have a Teflon® coating which helps repel dirt and water without reducing the air permeability. Selections in the Sunbrella collection include a 10-year limited warranty and have earned both the Skin Cancer Foundation’s seal of approval and the GREENGUARD’s gold certification for low chemical emissions.
If you get tired of the color of your awning fabric or want it replaced for another reason, we can accommodate. When you purchase a motorized awning from , our professional awning installers can replace the fabric of your awning at your home. The awning fabric can also be shipped back to the factory for replacement.
The mounting height is determined based on the size of the awning projection. A minimum of 80 inches is needed from the front bar of a fully extended awning to the ground. The mounting height must be higher. The height difference is dependent on the distance of the awning when fully extended. Schedule an in-home consultation to learn more about awning mounting height requirements for your project. Another way to mount awnings and add height is by mounting the awning to your roof.
The use of awnings outside of your home provides the additional bonus of energy efficiency inside your home. The elements on your home most likely to be the source of lost energy are glass doors and windows. In fact, on a hot summer day, more heat energy enters your home in one square foot of glass than an entire insulated wall. When you utilize an awning over the windows or glass doors of your home, you reduce the solar heat your home absorbs. Reducing the sun’s ability to heat up your home in the summer means your home’s cooling system works less. The less your air conditioning system runs, the lower your utility bill and the smaller your carbon footprint. Installing retractable awnings to your home will save you money and energy come the hot summer days from Virginia Beach to Williamsburg, the Eastern Shore and the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
No, unfortunately ECCO’s professional installation team only installs awnings and motorized awnings for customers who purchase the product from ECCO. We would not be able to honor warranties for products that come from another source.
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You’re invited to our open house on Saturday, May 3rd where we can review all our products to find what might work best for you!
This event will be both educational and fun. Speak with our knowledgeable staff, check out our various windows, screens, finishes, and fabric options PLUS take advantage of special promotions and discounts.