Sorry I can’t link to a picture; if I could I guess I’d probably know the name. But here’s the description:
Four wooden posts in a rectangular pattern, supporting a wooden roof which is usually at a slant. Frequently seen in Mediterranean climates, where you need protection from the rain but no protection from cold and wind.
I have a feeling I’m gonna be using one of these shortly :smack:
Is it some version of a cabana? Probably not but maybe that will serve as a clue.
A lean-to?
Yup, sounds like a lean-to to me!
No, a cabana and a lean-to have walls. This thing has no walls.
A pavilion?
I know what you are talking about, but for the life of me can’t remember the proper term for it. Like a covered area under which sits a picnic table. There are a bunch of them on Catalina Island, I recall.
SInce when did a lean-to need to have walls?
From my midwestern POV, it sounds like a carport. It keeps off the rain and sun, but the wind and cold come right through.
A ramada?
I encountered ramadas in Arizona. The roofs of the ones I saw weren’t solid, however. They were meant to provide shade more than protection from rain.
'Nother vote for a ramada.
Squink got it.
gazebo
A freestanding, roofed, usually open-sided structure providing a shady resting place.
Ramada can be used to describe those things but ramadas commonly have one or more walls, so long at least one side is open.
Thanks to all for the responses. I have to go with “ramada,” at least the picture in the link is closest to what I’m thinking of. Four posts, no walls, one roof.
I always think of a gazebo as having more than four sides and usually some minimal walls.
It’s reassuring that we had over 300 looks and no clear answer. I was thinking it was some real obvious word that had just slipped my mind for the last week.
Oh, and about lean-tos: every one I ever saw had three walls.
