Making A Back Porch Into A Room

Although a sunroom is essentially a high caliber enclosed porch you can still turn your open porch into an enclosed setting and create an additional space that doesn t depend on the weather.

Making a back porch into a room.

The previous owner had gone to immense effort to add two nearly floor to ceiling windows in the porch that let amazing and gorgeous south facing light into the room. So she is happy enough. I have been building outdoor furniture for a few rooms. Make sure that the finished room will have an 8 foot ceiling after the interior is finished too.

Good luck with your plans. Depending on how elaborate you want to make the enclosed porch you can get away with doing most if not all the labor yourself. A small roof that covers a small porch base might need some expansion to create a 10 by 12 foot room for example. To maintain continuity with the interior use the same style especially if a porch or patio is visible from the living room or family room.

But when it was a porch all that light was wasted shining on a bland storage room wall. On the other hand you may create a completely different mood making your. Durable fabrics for a covered porch include sheeting ticking and toweling. Using basic interior design strategies you can make your porch and patio into a second living room.

Lighting up the old porch. Review all roof and foundation needs. You will see a difference in your heating and cooling bills. The porch in the front yard.

I plan on staying in my home after my husband passed away and i know i would love that room so much. Replace a wooden porch base with a concrete slab for example in some cases. Rather than crowd the porch with furniture dueling porch swings were hung and guests are encouraged to pull out chairs. No my wife has not managed to turn it into a room yet.

Your home looks beautiful. We have loved having such a huge porch it was actually hard losing this because we ve had so much fun back there but we ll be adding on a new porch eventually. That set of 4 widows you see in the center are the widows of our family room. It has 2 doors on the outside one goes into our kitchen and one goes into the master bedroom.

We have a big covered porch on the back of our house that i would love to turn into a sun room you have inspired m to look into it. Acrylics available at tent awning and fabric stores sew up easily into soft furnishings and curtains. The homeowner widened and deepened the front stoop turning it into a porch that s 28 by 8 feet. The number one reason i dreamed up this entire project was light.

Tour the 660 square foot cottage. The porch in the backyard. Consider using synthetic weather resistant fabrics on exposed porch areas.