If you are considering having a spa enclosure built around your spa then there are a few items that you will want to take into consideration. The first is design features. You can go to a nursery or a backyard accessory store and find lots of ideas in their gazebos that you can photograph and take home to go over.

This way if you are having a contractor do the work you will have specific structural features that you can show him and discus in detail. Your typical outdoor decorative wooden structure is made out of Himalayan Fir and you can find it at your local lumber outlet.

It differers from standard Douglas fir in many ways. Its lighter, stronger and much more resistant to warping and cracking when exposed to the elements. This is why Douglas Fir is used in the framing of a home and Himalayan Fir is used on the outside for trim, fascia and varge rafters.

A spa enclosure can be as simple as one or two walls strategically placed in such a way that they allow anyone that uses the spa complete privacy. This can be easily done with some 4X4 posts embedded in the ground in the same way as you would fence posts.

A framework would then be built onto the post that would then accommodate 4X8 panels of redwood lattice, that can be easily obtained at you local nursery or lumber supply outlet. If you have a contractor do the work they are going to most likely want to build a whole structure that can be quite expensive.

However; if you do your homework and have a nice set of plans prepared you can have a basic lattice work blind assembly constructed for very little money. Try not to get carried away with details that you may see on other gazebos, unless you want to spend a lot of money. Often times, a simple decorative wooden structure that has a nice paint job works just fine.