A small woodshop in Lakemoor, Illinois, devoted to one very specific thing.
I built my first pergola swing for my mother's back porch in 2014. She still uses it every evening. Somewhere between then and now, this became the whole job.
Grove & Bough is a two-person shop on IL-120 in Lakemoor, Illinois. We build pergola swings, swing beds, and arbor canopies — and, on purpose, nothing else. When you make one thing for long enough, you stop making the small mistakes.
We use rough-sawn cedar and white oak, marine-grade rope, and stainless hardware. Every joint is drawn before it's cut. Every swing is test-hung in the shop with a 300-lb bag before it ever ships. If a screw is going to loosen in year three, we want to hear it grind now.
Come by if you're near the Chain O' Lakes. There's usually a swing on the porch and coffee on — we're open daily until 9 PM.
Four rules we don't break.
One thing, done right.
We build pergola swings. Not fences, not decks, not pergolas without swings. Depth beats breadth.
Fixed prices, in writing.
You get a real number after the sketch. Change orders are signed, not sprung on you at the end.
Real materials.
Rough-sawn cedar and white oak, marine rope, stainless hardware. No pressure-treated pine dressed up in stain.
We come back.
Seasonal re-oiling and hardware checks are part of the deal. If a swing creaks in year four, that's our creak to fix.