creating a Tea Garden (?)

I am playing around with ideas for a tea garden between my tea room and corner bakery.  Trying different things to see the way it looks.  I bashed a pergola kit so it would fit. 
To be added to the setting:  grass; tiles; wall fountain; flower beds; climbing roses; chair cushions.

- - - just trying this and that to see what works.

this is the fake door from the Tea Room leading to the potential Tea Garden.  It still needs door knobs in and out.

dust cover

Since ordering a large enough acrylic display case for my Street of Shops is out of the question, I found a good compromise at JoAnn's.  A light weight clear plastic by the yard ($2.99) 90" wide.
It beats using trash bags to keep my minis dust-free.  You can just see it in this picture.
I think I'll get some more to cover my

Vermeer roombox and my General Store, too.

Well, the good news is that the company can make the display case and it isn't outrageous.
The bad news is that it's so big they'd have to crate and freight it at a cost a little more than the case itself.
Guess I won't be doing that!

made 2 kites for the Toy Shop...

I'm currently checking out the possibilities and cost of ordering an acrylic display case to protect my Street of Shops from DUST -- the enemy of all miniatures. 

I've had 2 cases made by a local plastics shop that were rather expensive.  One for my Storybook Cottage and the other for my Tracy Topps' house (Ladies' Boutique).  Then I found this Internet site   http://www.casesforcollectibles.com/  where I ordered one for my witch's garden at a much more reasonable cost.  It arrived very quickly and was exactly to my measurements.

So I'll soon find out what they'll charge to make a much larger one, if they can make it.

display table for Houseworks Street of Shops

I ordered a sofa table from Overstock. com planning to use it to display my Street of Shops.  It arrived really fast, was easy to assemble and it's BIG enough.  So there's plenty of room for the
shops and even enough space to add a Tea Garden between the Tea Room and the Corner Bakery. 
That is, IF I can ever figure out how to create one that doesn't look amateurish next to the shops.

I tried bashing a pergola kit to fit the space available but I'm not real happy with the way it looks.   
And I'm finding that elements I thought would work just fine - don't.  So I'm now re-thinking everything.

Here are the shops on their new display table: