WESLEY  CHAPEL,  FLORIDA · PASCO  COUNTY

Wesley Chapel's Backyards Are Made for an Outdoor Kitchen and a Louvered Pergola.

Tell Us Your Ideas

Custom outdoor kitchens, aluminum pergolas, motorized louvered pergolas, summer kitchens, built-in grills, fire pits, and complete outdoor living spaces — designed and built by a Florida-certified contractor for the home you worked hard to own.

CUSTOM  OUTDOOR  KITCHENS · PERGOLAS · LOUVERED  PERGOLAS · BUILT-IN  GRILLS ·

OUTDOOR  LIVING ·  COVERED  PATIOS · SUMMER  KITCHENS · WOOD  CEILINGS

Florida-Certified Building Contractor ·  Serving Wesley Chapel Since 2014

2.8%

ANNUAL GROWTH RATE — ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING IN THE US

37 yrs

Median age — prime HOME investment STAGE

77%

Homeownership rate — owners invest, renters don't

$107K

MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOM  — WELL ABOVE STATE AND NATIONAL AVERAGES

"Wesley Chapel is a 'moving on up' suburb of Tampa. For most people, this is their second home.

Sixty percent of all home real estate offerings include outdoor kitchens in the listing ."

YOUR  SITUATION


You Bought a House in Wesley Chapel.

Now Finish the Backyard.

Wesley Chapel attracts a specific kind of homeowner — younger than most of Florida, earning more than most of the state, with a brand-new home in Wiregrass, Seven Oaks, Epperson, or Esplanade and a backyard that's ready for what comes next. You know exactly what that is. You've seen it in the neighborhood. You've pinned it. You want a built-in grill, a granite countertop, a louvered pergola overhead that closes when it rains and opens when it doesn't. The outdoor kitchen that turns your lanai from a drab slab into the room everyone ends up in.


The challenge isn't the vision. It's figuring out which company actually delivers it — and who just sells you a prefab grill island from a showroom and calls it a custom outdoor kitchen. Wesley Chapel has both. The difference is visible within two Florida summers.


HL Posey Builders is a Florida-certified building contractor. We design outdoor kitchens from scratch, install aluminum and louvered pergola systems, build fire features, and put together complete outdoor living spaces — all under one contractor's license, one building permit, and one fixed price. We serve all of Wesley Chapel and Pasco County, and we know the neighborhoods, the HOA requirements, and the Pasco County building process that governs every project here.


WHAT'S  GETTING  IN  THE  WAY


Three Things That Stop Wesley Chapel

Homeowners From Getting What They Want.

You know what you want the backyard to look like. What you're not sure about is who builds it correctly, whether it needs a permit, and whether the outdoor kitchen and the louvered pergola come from the same contractor or require two separate conversations. Here's the honest answer to all three.

Too Many Options, Hard to Tell the Difference


Wesley Chapel has showrooms selling prefab grill islands, pool companies that add outdoor kitchens as an upsell, and pergola installers who don't touch outdoor kitchens. Finding one licensed contractor who designs and builds the entire outdoor living space — kitchen, louvered pergola, fire feature, the whole thing — under one permit, is harder than it should be. That's what HL Posey does, and it's rarer in this market than you'd expect.


HOA Approvals That Feel Like a Full-Time Job


Wiregrass, Seven Oaks, Epperson, Esplanade, Meadow Pointe, The Ridge, Saddlebrook — every Wesley Chapel community has its own HOA design standards, setback rules, and architectural review process. Some have CDDs with additional oversight. Getting approval before construction begins isn't optional, and navigating the process alone is genuinely time-consuming. We prepare complete HOA submission packages as part of every project. We help you through every step.

The Outdoor Kitchen and the Pergola Don't Match


The most common outcome when a homeowner hires separate contractors for the outdoor kitchen and the pergola — or buys the kitchen from a showroom and the pergola from a pergola company — is that the two don't quite work together. The proportions are off. The finishes don't coordinate. The kitchen layout wasn't designed with the pergola overhead in mind. We design both as one project from the first conversation, so the finished outdoor living space looks intentional because it was.


WHAT  WE  BUILD


Outdoor Kitchens and Pergolas

 Designed as One Complete Space

Most Wesley Chapel homeowners who call us want the same thing: a built-in outdoor kitchen with a louvered pergola overhead, a fire feature in the lounge area, and an outdoor living space that flows from the home's interior to the backyard seamlessly. We design all of it together, build all of it under one permit, and deliver it as one finished outdoor environment — not as separate projects assembled by different contractors.


Every project starts with your specific lanai or backyard space, your HOA design standards, and how you intend to use the space. Nothing comes from a catalog. The dimensions, the materials, the appliance layout, the pergola system, the fire feature finish— all of it is specific to your home and your property.


FLORIDA CONTRACTOR LICENSE

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Custom Outdoor Kitchens & Summer Kitchens


Fully custom outdoor kitchens designed for your specific Wesley Chapel backyard — not a grill island selected from a showroom floor. Built-in gas grills, charcoal grills, smokers, pizza ovens, outdoor refrigerators, beverage coolers, ice makers, outdoor sinks, and bar setups, integrated into a structure built from man aluminum frame with stone, tile, or stucco facades. Granite, quartzite, or porcelain slab countertops specified for Florida's UV and humidity. Whether you're building a focused summer kitchen — grill, counter, and sink — or a full outdoor kitchen with bar seating and refrigeration, we design it from your lanai dimensions outward, not from a standard cabinet width inward.


Built-in grills · Pizza ovens · Smokers · Outdoor kitchens · Summer kitchens · Stone countertops · Granite countertops · Quartzite · Outdoor refrigerators · Outdoor bars · Travertine · Stacked stone






02


Aluminum Pergolas & Louvered Pergola Systems


Motorized louvered pergolas — where adjustable aluminum roof blades open, close, and angle with a wall switch or smartphone app — are the most-requested outdoor structure in Wesley Chapel right now, and for good reason. They give you full Florida airflow on mild days, genuine rain protection when afternoon storms roll through, and complete control over shade from the midday summer sun. We also install fixed aluminum pergolas, solid-roof aluminum pavilions, and attached covered patio structures. Every shade structure is engineered to Florida Building Code wind-load requirements for Pasco County — not assembled from an online kit. And because we install the louvered pergola as part of the same project as the outdoor kitchen, the two are designed to work together from the beginning: the pergola spans the kitchen correctly, the column placement doesn't obstruct the workspace, and the finished overhead structure looks like it was always part of the home.


Louvered pergolas · Aluminum pergolas · Motorized louvers · Pavilions · Patio covers · Shade structures · Covered outdoor kitchens · Attached pergolas


03


Outdoor Fire Pits, Fire Tables & Fireplaces


Gas fire pits, fire pit bowls, fire tables, linear outdoor fireplaces, and pizza ovens built into custom stone or porcelain surrounds. In Wesley Chapel's climate, a gas fire feature extends the outdoor kitchen's usable season from Florida's already excellent October through April evenings into something that rivals any season, anywhere. Some of Wesley Chapel HOAs restrict or prohibit wood-burning fire features — we always review your community's deed restrictions before specifying fuel type, so the fire feature you choose is the fire feature you're approved to build. We handle gas line work and every finish detail as part of the same project as the kitchen and pergola. No subcontractor handoffs where accountability disappears between the kitchen and the fire feature.


Gas fire pits · Fire tables · Outdoor fireplaces · Fire pit bowls · Linear fireplaces · Outdoor fire features · Pizza ovens · Gas fire features · Fire pit with stone surround · OUTDOOR  ELECTRIC FIREPLACE


04


Complete Outdoor Living Spaces


Outdoor kitchen, louvered pergola, fire feature, outdoor dining area, lounge zone, outdoor bar with bar seating, entertainment wall, and accent lighting — designed together as one cohesive outdoor living space that flows from your home's interior to the backyard and makes full use of your lake view, preserve edge, or community green space. We listen to you and what you want; we take everything into consideration before we ink the first line of your outdoor living space design. We help you create the kind of outdoor room that makes the Wesley Chapel home you invested in feel like the decision it was.


Outdoor living spaces · Outdoor dining · Outdoor lounge · Outdoor bar · Outdoor entertainment · LED ACCENT  lighting · Custom outdoor rooms · Outdoor kitchen Lakewood Ranch · Outdoor kitchen Waterside






WHERE  WE  BUILD


We Know Wesley Chapel's

Neighborhoods — All Of Them

Every Wesley Chapel community has its own HOA standards, its own architectural review process, and its own design language. We've built throughout Wesley Chapel long enough to know how to help you navigate the system.

Wiregrass Ranch & Estancia


Wesley Chapel's premier address. Large lots, premium homes, and HOA design standards that match. Outdoor kitchens and louvered pergolas here need to coordinate with the homes' architectural character.


PREMIUM · ESTATE  LOTS




Seven Oaks


One of Wesley Chapel's most established planned communities — mature landscaping, resort amenities, and an active HOA that reviews exterior additions carefully. Fire pits and outdoor kitchens are popular here and we've built them throughout the community.


ESTABLISHED · RESORT  AMENITIES  · ACTIVE  HOA

Epperson & Mirada


Lagoon lifestyle communities where outdoor living is the entire point. Outdoor kitchens and pergolas here are oriented toward the community's indoor-outdoor lifestyle. Epperson's Crystal Lagoon sets the aesthetic context for every backyard build in the community.


LAGOON  LIFE  STYLE · ACTIVE  COMMUNITY

Esplanade at Wiregrass


A Taylor Morrison resort-style community with a homeowner profile that expects a premium finish on every outdoor addition. HOA submission requirements are specific and enforced. We help you navigate Esplanade's architectural review process.


TAYLOR  MORRISON · RESORT  · Premium Finishes

Meadow Pointe


One of Pasco County's largest planned communities with multiple CDDs governing different sections. Outdoor kitchens and pergolas are well-established here — we help homeowners throughout  Meadow Pointe navigate  the approval process.


Multiple  CDDs · Established · Family-oriented


The Ridge at Wiregrass


A Homes by WestBay community with modern architecture and lake-view lots that are natural candidates for outdoor kitchen and pergola builds oriented toward the water. HOA design standards here align with the community's clean, contemporary aesthetic.


Modern architecture · Pond-view lots

Saddlebrook & Bridgewater


Saddlebrook's resort and residential mix creates unique outdoor kitchen opportunities — particularly for homes adjacent to the golf and tennis amenities. Bridgewater's larger lots provide generous backyard space for full outdoor living room builds.


Resort adjacent · Golf · Large lots

Land O' Lakes, Lutz & Surrounding


Wesley Chapel's outdoor kitchen and pergola market naturally extends into adjacent Land O' Lakes, Lutz, Zephyrhills, and New Tampa. We serve all of these communities under the same Pasco County and Hillsborough County licenses that cover the broader Wesley Chapel area.


Land O' Lakes · Lutz · New Tampa · Zephyrhills


The  pergola  question


Why Every Wesley Chapel Outdoor Kitchen

 Needs a Louvered Pergola Above It

Florida's outdoor season is twelve months long — but Florida's outdoor weather is not. From June through September, Wesley Chapel gets daily afternoon thunderstorms that arrive fast and leave fast. Without a covered structure above the outdoor kitchen, those storms end every evening early. With a standard fixed pergola, you're still getting wet. With a louvered pergola, you close the blades with a wall switch before the first drop falls and stay outside.


That's the practical case. The design case is equally strong. A louvered pergola over an outdoor kitchen changes how the entire outdoor space reads — it defines the cooking and dining zone architecturally, creates a ceiling plane that makes the outdoor room feel like a room, and gives the space a finished quality that an open-sky kitchen simply doesn't have.


We install aluminum louvered pergola systems specifically engineered for Florida Building Code wind-load requirements. They don't rot. They don't rust. They require no repainting. The motorized blade system is operated by a wall switch or a smartphone app, and the better systems include built-in rain sensors that close automatically. We size every louvered pergola to the specific outdoor kitchen it covers — not to a standard catalog width.

Pergola Types We Install

  • Motorized louvered pergola

Adjustable aluminum blade roof with remote or app control. Open for breeze, angled for shade, closed for full rain protection. The most popular system we install in Wesley Chapel.


  • Fixed aluminum pergola

Fixed-blade or open-beam aluminum structure for shade and architectural definition without motorization. Wind-load rated. Powder-coated in colors that match your home's exterior.


  • Solid-roof aluminum pavilion

Full overhead coverage with an aluminum roof system — the most weather-resistant option for homeowners who want complete protection year-round, not just when it rains.


  • Attached patio cover

A covered structure attached directly to your home's fascia or soffit, extending the roofline over the outdoor kitchen. Ideal for lanais that need overhead coverage without a freestanding structure.


HOW  IT  WORKS


From First Call to Becoming a Backyard

Hangout Hero — Three Steps


Step 1


Consultation · Commitment ·

Site Visit


Starting with an in-depth conversation about your space and ideas, we give you a budget range. You make a virtual visit to our showroom to see all the stuff that fills your vision. Then we come out to your house and make it all work.



Step 2


Final Selections and Order Materials


We guide you through the final selection of cabinet colors, countertops and backsplashes. Write it all up to determine the final scope of work so everyone is on the same page, including our licensed plumber and electrician.



Step 3


We Build. You Enjoy.


Construction begins on your scheduled date. The construction period generally takes around three weeks for an outdoor kitchen. The last day we install all the appliances and clean up all the dust. Always shooting to deliver a 5-star performance.


WHAT  IT  LOOKS  LIKE  WHEN  IT  IS  DONE


This Is the Wesley Chapel

You Bought Into 

A custom outdoor kitchen with a louvered pergola overhead doesn't just complete the backyard. It makes the home feel finished. It makes the investment make sense. It makes every afternoon and every evening in Wesley Chapel exactly what you said it would be when you moved here.


The afternoon storm hits. You close the louvers and stay outside.


The built-in grill is running. The fire table is lit. The louvered pergola is closed and the rain is sheeting off the integrated gutters into the landscaping. Your guests don't leave. The evening doesn't end. That's the decision that turns a good outdoor kitchen into a great outdoor room.



Your neighbor asks who built your outdoor kitchen. You give them our number.


Word travels in Seven Oaks, Wiregrass, and Epperson. A custom-built outdoor kitchen with a louvered pergola and a fire feature — well-built, and clearly designed for the home — gets noticed. We've built entire streets one backyard at a time in Wesley Chapel. The referral is the best review we earn.


The listing agent calls it the standout feature. The buyer makes an offer on the first day.


A well designed and built outdoor kitchen with a permitted custom louvered pergola in a Wesley Chapel home shows up in the listing headline, in the photos, and in the buyer conversation. The permit is on file with Pasco County. The structure is documented. It adds to the sale price, not to the negotiation.

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QUESTIONS  BEFORE  YOU  CALL


What Wesley Chapel Homeowners

Ask Us Before the Consultation


  • Do I need a permit for a pergola in Wesley Chapel?

    Yes, in all cases. Wesley Chapel is an unincorporated community in Pasco County, meaning all building permits are issued by the Pasco County Building Department — not a city municipality. Pasco County requires permits for gas connections, electrical work, or plumbing, and for any permanent covered structure including pergolas and pavilions over a threshold square footage. Building without a permit in Pasco County creates a risk that surfaces when you sell — buyers' inspectors flag unpermitted structures, and removal can be required before closing. The permit is part of what you're paying for, and one of the most valuable parts of the investment.

  • What is the difference between a louvered pergola and a regular aluminum pergola?

    A standard aluminum pergola has a fixed overhead structure — typically open-beam or fixed-blade — that provides partial shade and defines the outdoor space architecturally, but offers no weather protection. A motorized louvered pergola has a roof system made of adjustable aluminum blades that open and close with a wall switch or smartphone app. When the blades are open, you have full airflow and sky visibility. When angled, they block the sun while maintaining ventilation. When fully closed, they shed rain through an integrated hidden gutter system and provide complete weather protection. In Wesley Chapel's climate — where afternoon thunderstorms are near-daily from June through September — a louvered pergola extends the usable season of an outdoor kitchen dramatically compared to a fixed pergola or no overhead coverage at all. The systems we install are engineered to Florida Building Code wind-load requirements for Pasco County.

  • Does my Wesley Chapel HOA need to approve an outdoor kitchen or louvered pergola?

    In virtually every Wesley Chapel community, it's a maybe for an outdoor kitchen, depending on where you are putting it, and yes for a pergola.

    Wiregrass Ranch, Seven Oaks, Epperson, Esplanade, Meadow Pointe, The Ridge, Saddlebrook, and most other Wesley Chapel communities have HOA architectural review requirements for any exterior addition — pergolas, shade structures, and fire features. Many also have Community Development District (CDD) oversight with additional requirements. Standards vary by community and can cover materials, colors, height, setbacks from property lines, and roof styles. We help you prepare a complete HOA submission package for every project — site plan, elevation drawings, material specifications, and product documentation — as a standard part of the process.

  • What does a custom outdoor kitchen with a louvered pergola cost in Wesley Chapel?

    A custom outdoor kitchen in Wesley Chapel — aluminum frame, stone or tile facade, built-in grill, refrigeration, and countertop — typically starts around $16,000 for a focused summer kitchen and runs up to $55,000 for a full outdoor kitchen with bar seating and premium stone. A motorized louvered pergola sized for an outdoor kitchen adds $80,000 to $120,000+ depending on the span and system. A combined outdoor kitchen, louvered pergola, and gas fire feature — the most common package we build in Wesley Chapel — typically runs $125,000 to $175,000. We provide a fixed-price proposal after the on-site consultation. That number covers everything including Pasco County permit fees and HOA submission preparation, and it does not change once you've signed.

  • How long does a project take from first call to finished outdoor kitchen?

    An outdoor kitchen project in Wesley Chapel typically runs 9 to 14 weeks from signed contract. Design and revision takes two to three weeks. HOA architectural review depends on your community's review calendar — most Wesley Chapel HOAs run two to four weeks. On-site construction typically runs two to three weeks. We provide a project-specific schedule once we know when all your materials will be delivered and update you at every milestone. For homeowners targeting a specific seasonal completion — outdoor kitchen ready for the holidays, for example — start the conversation three to five months before your target date.

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HL Posey Builders


(239) 893-3700


Building in Spring Hill, Brooksville,  Wesley Chapel, Tampa, St. Petersburgh, and The Villages since 2014.



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Construction is hard, hot, dusty, and sweaty leaving us a bit stinky.



If you see us goofing off a little here and there... we're merely surviving the day or shooting a Public Service Announcement.



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