Standard features that are common with most modern full-size gazebos include a bar with stools, cupola, bay windows, flower pots, hot tub steps and even decking. Customers can also customize their gazebos with their own choice of window, door and roof patterns to suit their landscaping ideas. Today more consumers are also choosing fully enclosed models rather than lattice models, with the most popular gazebos being those that can shelter a hot tub for up to four adults while remaining small enough to fit in a residential backyard. It affords privacy with enough room inside to fit in furniture or other items. Another popular type of gazebo is the smoked plexiglass type.
Customers tend to attribute more value to smoked plexiglass over a basic lattice gazebo.
For privacy and protection from the weather, smoked plexiglass is best. Arizona Gazebos out of Phoenix, Arizona, however, says Shoji-style gazebos are their most popular model. For those with limited space who still want shelter for their hot tub, lip-mounted gazebos are also available, but there are pros and cons to this design. They also are very private and give a feeling of being more enclosed and secure. The disadvantages are that the owner must climb over the lip to get into the hot tub, which may be difficult for those with bad backs, and they have less room inside than full-structure gazebos.