Sanctuary Pergolas

Sanctuary Pergolas is an Auckland-based, family-founded design-and-build team focused on custom fixed-roof pergolas and outdoor rooms. We work with homeowners, commercial clients, architects, designers and builders who want a structure designed around its setting and intended use.

Every project begins with a useful brief: the site, photos, approximate dimensions, how the space should work and any known constraints. From there, we resolve the form, structure, roof approach, daylight, drainage, connections and integrated options as one coordinated design. Sanctuary builds and installs the agreed structure, and can coordinate project-specific engineering, the building-consent process and connected trades where these form part of the scope.

Our role can range from developing an early idea to delivering a defined package within a consultant-led project. Responsibilities, dependencies and interfaces are agreed before fabrication, giving homeowners and project teams a clear path from first conversation to handover.

Sanctuary began with a practical problem at founder Bruce Breetvelt’s family bach: a generous deck that was often too exposed to use comfortably. Faced with a long lead time, Bruce drew on his background in engineering and teaching design to build the pergola himself. The result showed him there was room for a more considered, site-specific approach.

That idea still guides the work today. Each project is shaped around the architecture, intended use and conditions that need to be resolved, then carried through to installation by the Sanctuary team.

Sanctuary is based in Auckland and considers selected projects up to about a three-hour drive away when the scope is a good fit.