Before you commit

See it in your garden, before it exists.

One photo of your garden, one photo of our structure, and a free AI tool puts the two together. It takes about two minutes, it costs nothing, and we never see your photos unless you send them to us.

Your garden photo

Aluminium pergola veranda with a glass roof fitted to the rear of a house

Our photo of the structure

Example visualisation of an aluminium pergola in a landscaped gardenExample

Your garden, with it built

How it works

A few taps, about two minutes.

On a phone, one tap sends both photos and the instruction to Gemini or ChatGPT. You need a free account with one of them.

  1. Take a photo of your garden

    Stand where you would normally look out from. Get the back wall of the house, a door and the ground in the frame. For a side gate, photograph the side passage from the front of the house. Daylight, no filter.

  2. Pick a structure

    The AI copies the structure from our photo of it, so pick the one you want to see.

  3. Add your garden photo

    Choose the photo from step 1. It stays on your phone: nothing is uploaded to us.

    IMG 3744 scaled 1 See it in your garden 2 Our Pergola
  4. Send it to Gemini or ChatGPT

    Your phone's share menu opens. Pick Gemini or ChatGPT: both photos and the instruction go into a new message, then press send. The free plan is enough.

    Claude and most other chat apps cannot create images, so they will not work for this.

    We also copy the instruction when you tap. If it is not in the message box, press and hold there and choose Paste.

    Other ways to do it

    Save our photo to your phone, copy the instruction, then open the app yourself and attach your garden photo first, our photo second.

  5. Put it together in Gemini or ChatGPT

    These two give the best results, and the free plan is enough. Start a new chat, attach your garden photo first, then our photo. Paste the instruction and send.

    Claude and most other chat assistants cannot create images, so they will not work for this.

    Download our Pergola photo

    Scale looks off? Reply “make it about 20% smaller” and it will redo it.

  6. Send it to us

    Attach the picture to your quote request. The form has a photo field.

Getting a good result

What makes the difference.

Shoot in flat daylight

Overcast is better than bright sun. Hard shadows confuse the model and it will place the structure at the wrong angle.

Include a door or a window

It needs something of known height to scale against. A back door in the frame is the single biggest accuracy gain.

Stand back further than feels right

Include more garden than you think you need. You can always crop the result.

Treat it as a sketch, not a quote

It shows you proportion and colour. It does not know your ground levels, your drainage or your wind exposure. That is what the survey is for.

Next step

Like what you see?

Send us the picture with your quote request. It tells us more about what you want than a paragraph of description ever will.