The Best Market Umbrellas for Your Home

When selecting an umbrella to keep your family cool during the warmer days of summer, you’ve got two basic choices – a patio umbrella or a market umbrella. Market umbrellas were originally designed for those shop owners who needed to shade their goods (like farmer’s market vendors) or customers (as with a small café). Shop owners turned to market umbrellas for their hearty nature and ability to withstand the elements better than a patio umbrella.

How Market Umbrellas Keep Your Patio Welcoming

Let’s take a look at what makes a market umbrella a better choice than a standard patio umbrella. Both have similar designs (attached to a base, they have a central mast/post attaching to the umbrella with spreaders that allow the umbrella to be raised or lowered), but just about every part of a market umbrella is “better.”

Patio market umbrellas have heavier bases designed to hold the extra weight of the umbrella during windy conditions and provide the stabilization for the umbrella (patio umbrellas rely on the table it extends through for stabilization). The mast on market umbrellas is thicker and stronger, as are the spreaders. Most commercial patio umbrellas have a manual raise/lower mechanism held in place by a pin system which make it significantly more reliable when conditions get windy. The canopy itself is usually thicker, and almost always has wind vents at the top to lessen the effect of gusty days on the canopy. Although patio market umbrellas didn’t originally have them, many market umbrellas now have robust tilt features which allow more customization of the canopy angle. Finally, the canopy of market umbrellas is typically wider than the average patio umbrella, allowing for even more shade on those hot summer days.

Businesses have known since the beginning that market umbrellas are the right choice for long-term use, as they withstand both the elements and the incessant rays of the sun better than their smaller patio brothers. Take a stroll down just about any outdoor sales venue, and you’ll find commercial market umbrellas hard to work keeping patrons cool.

When you’re trying to shade an area that doesn’t have additional support (like between two lounges by the pool), you’ll want the strength and reliability of a market umbrella above you. Keep your family safe when the weather gets a little iffy out there by selecting a market umbrella.

Choosing Which Market Umbrellas is Right for You

When thinking about your market umbrella, consider the shape you would prefer. Round market umbrellas, square market umbrellas, rectangular market umbrellas and even half market umbrellas (also known as half patio umbrellas, they look like somebody cut a normal umbrella in half, perfect for up against a wall) are some of the options that are available to you.

Take a look at the space you’re trying to shade, and you can identify what size umbrella you need to get the job done right. Whether you choose one of the most popular sizes of 7.5 ft. market umbrella, 9 ft. market umbrella or an 11 ft. market umbrella, make sure it will fit your space. We’ve got options for you available from 6.5’ to a gargantuan 16’4”, so we’re sure we can cover you (pun fully intended).

Market umbrellas were originally designed to be colorful and attract people to the shopkeeper’s store, and today’s market umbrellas keep up that trend. Whether you’re looking for just the right beige or what we politely call Kermit-The-Frog green, you’re sure to find a shade that fits you just perfectly. In fact, some of our market umbrellas come in nearly 40 colors!

Styling Your Outdoor Space with Market Umbrellas

We love our outdoor living spaces almost as much as you do. Let’s set the stage… it’s a little after noon, and you’re busy finishing up a holiday lunch for your family in your outdoor kitchen. You’ve just finished flipping the smoked gouda infused burgers on your grill and you reach down into your outdoor refrigerator and pop the top off of a cold one.

You holler at the kids over by the patio mister where they were supposed to be playing a game of cornhole (and has recently digressed into an all-out bean bag fight) to get ready for lunch, when you notice that your spouse is resting their eyes (and snoring) on the Chaise lounge chair under the shade of your 9’ market umbrella. That’s when you realize that this is what life is all about – good times with the people you love on a gorgeous summer’s day.

Market Umbrellas Expand Outdoor Living Spaces

We rely on market umbrellas for a safer way of shading our family, and love that just about every component of them is beefed up to handle the stresses of everyday weather conditions. Select these fully stand-alone umbrellas for your family’s shade needs and they’ll serve you well for years to come.

Here at Patio Heat and Shade, we’ve spent decades training our patio consultants on the nuances of which products would work best in different situations, and we would love to share those decades of experience with you. Give us a call at (855) 298-4922, we promise to treat you like family.