Black Cedar Pavilion Beside the Pool

A freestanding outdoor pavilion built on a poured concrete pad beside a backyard pool: heavy post-and-beam timber framing stained black, with an open slatted roof that throws shade while keeping the sky in view. It stands clean against the fence line and the trees behind it.

A structure like this is as much about the footings and the framing as the look — set square and level so it lasts, and finished to become the anchor of the backyard. It's the outdoor-living work Metanoia is known for, the kind one client called "one of the most beautiful pieces of construction I've ever seen."