Beautiful Greenchic! The fireplace makes it look very inviting. Would you want a glass ceiling or just walls? Lots of birds on my property. I'm not sure overhead glass would stay clean very long. lol And I was wondering if a glass ceiling would make it TOO sunny for some plants. I was looking through Google images and saw a sunroom that had a horizontal pole suspended from the ceiling that went all the way across the room for hanging plants. That would be a handy feature. Or maybe a couple columns of adjustable bookcase type shelves to sit plants on instead of just glass all the way around. Here's what comes up on Google images for "Sunroom plants" Here is a link that might be useful: Google images

Fusion has not shared with you that he has a superb website and ships plants to many places and has an outstanding reputation for quality plants and prices. So I linked to his site below. Last I knew he also showed how he packs his plants as well. I don't buy plants from anywhere, online or elsewhere, but I know that if I did I wouldn't buy any plants that were a foot high, I'd want plants in the maybe 6-9 inch range. A good friend of mine does send me some plants from Raleigh and they do arrive in excellent shape, and are usually around 4 inches tall and all he does is to take the rootball and wrap the plants in newspaper, after putting film, call it saran wrap, over the rootball next to the stem and then folding over the top and bottom and stapling both shut. But he's also a very very experienced tomato grower. No, he doesn't sell plants. Carolyn Here is a link that might be useful: Selected Plants

Ipe is very beautiful - we built our new deck out of it last year. However if you don't want to let it go silver, then we are finding it is quite a bit of work to keep a finish on. I have another post on this board on just this subject. Initially we had thought we would just let it weather and go gray, but that rich natural reddish color of the newly installed wood is so gorgeous it makes you really want to hang on to it! Plus, even though ipe is extremely durable, it will start to get some fine checking, etc. without UV protectant and that is what we saw. It is a large investment, and we found we wanted to do everything we could to protect the wood even though we know it is very durable even when left on its own. I don't claim to be an expert of any sort, this is just what our experiences have been. At the end of the day, I do wonder if we should have just gone with composite, but there are definite drawbacks to that approach as well. Sometimes I have felt that we've saddled ourselves with a big ongoing maintenance task, but I realize we are choosing to feel this way about keeping the wood UV protected and looking very nice. Good luck with your decision!

We are putting on an addition about 1500 sq ft. Dream? Well, not to anyone but us. We are a family of 5, soon to be 6 - my dad will be moving in part time - and we live in a less than 1500 sq ft 3 bed/2 bath home, no basement, with bedrooms the size of some of your closets. I do "dream" about or lose sleep over thinking about the house. Here's what we're doing... adding a 2nd story to our home which will include a master bedroom, bath and walk-in closet, 2 bedrooms for the kids (boys will share), playroom and kids bathroom current bedrooms on 1st floor will become... office/guest room off of foyer workout room dad's bedroom/den - he sleeps in a recliner since he broke his hip back in 93 so it's a multi purpose room for him - man has nine lives losing our garage and turning it into a rec/entertainment/family room - since we don't have a basement. It's filled with mostly workout equipment which will go in the new workout room. I'm thinking about making it a step down. adding a mudroom, extra closets and a 1/2 bath off the back of the house. So happy not to have kids slip sliding through the house after coming out of the pool, or trapsing dirt all through the house to get to the bathroom. adding a new small kitchen 15 x 15 with a big pantry We have waited a looooong time to do this. Did basically nothing to the house since we bought it. Just outside. I can't wait for my kids to have their own space to get rowdy inside the house when it's too cold to go outside, and for me to actually be able to turn around in a room with a laundry basket without bumping into something. It's enough to make me nuts!! Our addition is planned to start in March/April, and I can't wait!!!!!