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How to Plan a Sunroom?

Tue 07 Apr 2009 - 15:38

How to Plan a Sunroom?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jitesh_Arora]Jitesh Arora

Sunrooms are multipurpose rooms best suited for casual living. It has become an increasing practice to carve a sun room out of the available space from kitchen, bedroom, study or any other living space. Addition of a sun room in your house would greatly increase its value, visual effect and utility.

Sunrooms can be classified into four according to its style. They are straight, curved, conservatory style and cathedral style. The straight ones are less expensive to create, own and operate. Curved ones hug the contours of your house and are space savers. The cathedral type sunrooms, as they have vaulted ceilings, let in sunlight unhindered and give a feeling of airiness. Conservatory style sun rooms have glass roofs and thereby provide the ambience of a real life conservatory or greenhouse.

However, do not ever think that only these four styles exist. You can make them in any shape imaginable, but these four are the most common and practical. These veritable beauties help you enjoy the nature around your house while cocooned aside from the elements of the nature like wind, rain or snowfall. They help you not to miss out on the warmth and light of sunlight while keeping away pests and the likes.

Sun rooms have to be built sturdy with high quality materials and double paned windows. These windows, with argon gas filled in the intervening space between panels, help prevent the harmful ultra violet rays entering. The delicate materials like beddings and cushions kept inside the sunrooms can thus escape light-induced fading and wrinkles.

Great care needs to be given while creating a sunroom. The overall shape and design should be in concurrence with those of the house. Otherwise the sunroom would give an out of space look, which would send out a jarring note.

Sun rooms, as they are extensions of a house, tend to get too warm in summers and too cold in winters. Due to this, you should have the heating and cooling systems appropriately fixed in order to enjoy its delight all year through. The little extra cost you may incur is nothing compared to what you would get round the year.

You can even use the sun room as an informal living room during warm and sunny days and also as a guest room, if the guest is so close to you. Changing the decor and furnishings of a sunroom frequently would keep a fresh feeling even after years of installation.

Many people make the cardinal mistake of constructing a sunroom at their own whims, fancies and ideas. This can prove detrimental to your well-being in the long run. It is better to spend some time for advance planning and designing before setting out on the endeavor. It would be even better if you can take the services of experts in the field.

There is no dearth of usage for sun rooms. They double up as playrooms for children, corners for lazing around, areas for relaxing, islands in the midst of all hullabaloos of your home or just as a place where you can curl up with a book in your hand. You would never regret the decision to construct a sunroom if that is dome in a professional way.

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