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Custom sofa section of Blanchette patio and privacy screen with mobile shutters. The patio floor is ipé. It was left in the rough and the sun made it pale, giving it a nice silvery gray color.

Before the construction of Blanchette patio. Photo 2

Before the construction of Blanchette patio. Photo 1.

Blanchette patio construction. A two-level cedar patio with Ipe wood flooring.

Construction of the cedar corner sofa. The seat opens in sections to store the cushions. Blanchette patio.

Custom cedar corner sofa with cushions. Blanchette Patio

Custom cedar corner couch without cushions. View of the storage under the seats. Blanchette patio.

Blanchette patio access balcony also showing privacy screen with movable louvers. The patio floor is ipé. It was left in the rough and the sun made it pale, giving it a nice silvery gray color.

Ipe floor and couch corner of Blanchette patio. The ipé wood of the floor is in its raw state and the sun has made it pale giving it a beautiful silver gray color.

For more information on the natural gray ipé wood, we invite you to read this post on the French side of our blog:

Here are a few pictures of a gray Ipé wood deck we built a year ago for the Blanchette family of Montreal in the Tétreauville borough. Ipé wood will naturally become silver gray after only 1 year of UV exposure from the sun. Since Ipé wood is relatively expensive compared to cedar, only the floor and the steps were made with Ipé. The skirt, the bench and the screens are made of cedar. Cedar will also develop a natural gray patina after a few years in the sun. If you do not want to wait until Mother Nature does her work, know that it’s now possible to accelerate the graying of cedar using an environmentally friendly and easy-to-apply product: LifeTime Wood Treatment (www.valhalco.com).

For more information on the natural gray ipé wood, we invite you to read this post on the French side of our blog: “laisser grisonner le bois ipé de votre terrasse : un look naturel de plus en plus tendance”