Advice on choosing a small pergola for shade and climbing plants

[aliumbear]

I want a small pergola for outside the kitchen window - for a table and chairs to go under, and give some shade from the sun or just somewhere to sit. I want to grow creeping plants all on it. There are various types of pergolas and different prices. Does anyone have any advice.

We built one using a kit two years ago. It needed a decent slab base and four metal anchor/ base/ 'feet' for the posts to sit in , which were screwed into the slabs. We're really happy with it but it wasn't an easy job.