About Backyard Shade Craft
Backyard Shade Craft is a family-owned maker of redwood pergola kits. We specialize in simple yet attractive pergolas suitable for any architectural or landscaping design.
Our wood crafting location is in beautiful Northern California within sight of the Sierra Nevada mountains and the Southern Cascade region.
Backyard Shade Craft is owned and operated by, Rafi Segal, a licensed contractor with a carpenter specialty with over 25 years of fine woodworking experience including remodeling San Francisco Victorian homes, building weaving looms, custom cabinets, sunrooms, porches, aviaries, gazebos, log structures and unique staircases.
How Backyard Shade Craft Began
Rafi moved to Chico, CA in 1990 with wife and children. Rafi began by working on various construction projects including home building and remodeling. Soon after moving to Chico, Rafi opened Segal Woodshop to work specifically with log structures, including log railings and log staircases.
Rafi started Backyard Shade Craft to meet his goal of creating beautifully crafted shade structures at a reasonable price. Backyard Shade Craft primarily uses solid heart redwood because of its beauty, strength and natural resistance to decay or pests. Redwood trees are only found on the West Coast of North America. Having a pergola Increases living space in your yard which helps reduce energy use, cools your porch or patio and allows sun sensitive plants a place to grow, such as a beautiful bower of grape vines or wisteria!
View our gallery of photos or browse our selection of Pergola Shade Kits. We are happy to help you with a custom design if you would like. You can contact us about custom pergola shade kits by calling (530) 345.1011.