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Incredible Patio Umbrella & Shade Solutions
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Create A Cool Shade Oasis
In the Wine Country, we are blessed with a wonderful Mediterranean climate – hot, dry days and cool, even cold evenings! The trick to maximizing your outdoor lifestyle is shade during the hot temperatures of daytime, and warmth, from a fire pit or a heater, in the evening to keep the evening’s chill at bay. It's funny, on a hot day you’ll watch your guests chase shade wherever it is – be it under a tree, or under umbrellas, you’ve thoughtfully provided.
Villa Terrazza has so many shade choices to meet your specific outdoor space needs, from a wide variety of styles to a great selection of colors to match your outdoor decor:
The truth is simply this: You can’t have too much shade! Protect your sensitive skin from the harmful UV rays of the sun – an umbrella clad in Sunbrella™ performance fabrics blocks over 90% of the sun’s harmful UV rays. When it comes to umbrellas, Go Large, or Go Home!
Patio umbrellas come in many shapes, sizes, configurations, and price levels. If you spend more, what do you get in return? Non-fading Sunbrella™ Marine-Grade canopy fabrics. High degrees of wind resistance. Heavier-duty parts. Component-replaceable parts. In a word, an umbrella is not just a disposable item that will break.
We think that the best umbrella canopy fabric for your Patio Umbrella is a heavy-duty solution-dyed acrylic such as Sunbrella™ Marine Grade fabric. Sunbrella fabric is extruded, not dyed. What does that mean? Think of the difference between a carrot and a radish. A radish’s color is only on the outside. A carrot, on the other hand, is colored all the way through. Sunbrella Performance fabrics are like carrots! Furniture Grade Sunbrella fabric has a nice soft hand and isn’t stiff and ‘crunchy’ like marine grade. It makes great cushions and pillows! But it can sag on larger umbrellas and carries only a 5-year warranty against fading.
Marine Grade Sunbrella, on the other hand, is a heavier, thicker, stiffer version of furniture grade which has the dimensional stability required for umbrellas to keep their shape, carries a 10-year warranty against fading, is bleach-cleanable, and is really tough stuff. TUUCI, a Miami-based manufacturer of amazing wind-resistant umbrellas, come standard with Sunbrella Marine-grade fabric canopies. Villa Terrazza is one of the largest distributors of TUUCI shade products on the West Coast, and we have a large display of these amazing TUUCI Umbrellas in our Sonoma showroom.
Funny story – owners Mike & Theresa travel extensively. Recently, they were in Belize City, staying at a small boutique hotel. They were surprised to find half a dozen TUUCI Ocean Master umbrellas with silk-screened logo printing on the canopies. They tracked down the owner of the mother-and-daughter resort, and asked how it was they happened to have TUUCI umbrellas? She told them that they had procured the umbrellas about 18 years before, which would make them amongst the earliest of TUUCI umbrellas, and they were amazingly still going strong and still looked brand new! She marveled at how well they have held up in their demanding coastal windy and salt air environment.
Patio Umbrellas come in a few different shapes & configurations:
- Center-Mast Umbrella, your typical patio umbrella with the mast in the center of the canopy. These can be tilting umbrellas or fixed.
- Cantilever Umbrella, also known as an ‘Offset Umbrella’. These have the mast on the side of the canopy, instead of being centered underneath the canopy. Cantilever umbrellas need a heavier base (or an in-ground mount) because by nature they are imbalanced. Most cantilever umbrellas rotate 360 degrees on their mast spindle. Some of them also tilt.
- Multi-Canopy Cantilever Umbrella – a system where one umbrella mast supports more than one canopy. Some of these can tilt.
- Many Canopy Shapes, regardless of mast configuration: Octagonal, Hexagonal, Square, Rectangular, and freeform.
Visit Sonoma and Create the Outdoor Living Oasis of Your Dreams
Villa Terrazza helps you create the outdoor dining space with a complete design solution right down to shade solutions. We love collaborating with you to create your outdoor escape; a haven for your busy life - right in your backyard!
Our design team has done it all when it comes to umbrellas, from a simple 6’ market umbrella in a bistro table to a series of Cantilever umbrellas lined up to shade a winery tasting room’s patio. If you want a simple patio dining set with an umbrella to a massive installation consisting of outdoor sectionals, outdoor dining sets, and umbrellas to shade it all, if you can imagine it, we can make it happen. If you can’t imagine it – we can help there as well!
Want to check out TUUCI umbrellas? They are here, as well as other quality umbrella manufacturers. Come visit Villa Terrazza in Sonoma, sip some pinot, and see one of the most extensive selections of outdoor dining sets, outdoor barstools, and tall outdoor seating sets in the North Bay. Bring pictures of your backyard; measurements of your space - we love collaborating with you and making your dreams a reality, we’re Furnishing Your Escape™!
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