adding sunroom OR an addition? Help me decide - Pros and Cons?
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Comments (12)Hi All, I've gotten some great insight reading this. I too was thinking of adding on a sunroom off of my Kitchen and Diningroom basically just to gain some space. I live in a split-entry type of home so my Familyroom is on the lower level. Being one of those people who like to be around the kitchen I wanted to add something off the kitchen to eat in, view tv, etc. Like a familyroom in a sense. I was thinking it would be a great selling point come time to sell because people with children would have the luxury of either familyroom to use. I am having second thoughts however. I truly do not have a great deal of money to spend right now and I have a kitchen remodel ahead of me as well as two bathrooms. I have considered just "bumping out" the one side of my diningroom to gain more space so that I may extend my kitchen in to the diningroom because both my kitchen and diningroom are small. This will not give me another familyroom of course as it would be just a bump out..not to mention it is on a totally different wall...but it will possibly allow me to at least make my kitchen larger. The back and sides of my house are not ground level and I am in the process of getting estimates for a deck off the back where I now have sliders from my diningroom to a very small deck that doesn't have steps to the yard . Holly Spring mentioned in a post this: " You could add a couple of $400 Harbor Freight 6x8 greenhouses for a lot less money and get a lot more usable "sun" space." I'm not sure what this is but it sounds interesting. Is this a bump out of sorts? I am looking to just add bump-outs to my dining room and possibly a bathroom and was wondering if anyone knew the cost of such a project. I was wondering if the Harbor Freight thing that was mentioned would do the trick and also not sure where you would purchase them. thank you all...See MoreBiergarten Greenhouse / Sunroom Build
Comments (26)Lots to do in terms of making it look nice but I accomplished the main objective this weekend - the Greenhouse/Biergarden is about 98% (unscientifically) airtight after a full day of cutting and fitting 2 inch insulation paneling and sloppily applying around 4 cans of spray foam insulation. All I have to do is seal up the cracks that were too small to blast in the spray foam with caulking. I do have to figure out the ventilation at some point, right now all the windows are just screwed in. For now I want to capture as much heat as possible and get the thermal mass of the floor warmed up a bit. The immediate goals are to: 1. Get some shelves added for the window walls that will be able to hold around 3 trays per shelf. I'll be using these so that I can add or remove wood planking as needed: https://www.amazon.com/Storage-Portamate-PBR-001-Six-Level-Organizer/dp/B004DGIZMW 2. Get about 8 55 gallon plastic drums painted black, filled with water for thermal mass. This will also serve as a base for a propagation table which will have soil heating cable buried in sand to help with seed starting and seedlings. 3. Figure out the ventilation. Will likely be just simple hinges and blocking for propping open a couple of the windows for now. 4. Get water inside the structure. There's a line somewhere in the wall or ceiling adjacent so this shouldn't be too hard (hopefully). 5. Get this NG wall heater hooked up. I'm going to monitor the temperatures over the next week or so without any added heat to see if this is necessary right now or if it can wait until this fall/winter....See MoreAddition to small older home; pros & cons of separate structure
Comments (20)Here's some pictures showing just lap siding on what looks to be an addition to some stone cottages. It doesn't have to be stone if connected to the stone cottage. You do however want to really consider the flow of the addition with the existing home. An architect could be very helpful in that endeavor. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ca/89/d8/ca89d87d61d3136f263a4b15d2fb6d03.jpg http://www.thebestproperties.com/Sugan1.jpg http://www.hoffmanarchitectsinc.com/files/2011/10/05b.jpg https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/TEX77hVkE3ObcHOMN9xVP29VcoY=/0x0:1800x1278/1200x800/filters:focal(756x495:1044x783)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/57063611/33146271.0.jpg https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57e6ffe115d5db790f32a401/58b6179203596ecacd13d45e/58dd7746bebafb89753174dc/1493058933095/Cochran-+Epes004.jpg...See MoreNot my house, but helpful. Sunroom part 3
Comments (24)I do think the roof should look flat, even if it is not (flat roofs and snow are not a great combo). Knowing what the salt air does to trim, I am tempted to forego a railing but I do think it can look very nice, so we will see. It depends on whether we make the roof accessible, too. Robo, those are exactly what I am imagining, pretty much the standard 1900=1940 sunroom. And, GMTA on finishes too. We want it to feel like a screened porch that got converted. So yes to a wooden beadboard ceiling, maybe beadboard walls too (tho painted). And we have a place in our CT house where we expanded and we kept the cedar shake wall in the new room. Love that look. Pal, thanks for the reminder on the Golden ratio! I will use that. I don't want the room to be too big and cumbersome. With the furniture layouts I am considering 14' will be enough. Jojoco, dreamy house. I don't think I want a shed roof though, since no other part of the roof is that simple. Also, since the back screened porch is sort of white paneled, I am inclined to stick with that. Jane, BBSTX, I think what we might do, if it is possible, is build it without skylights (and without a rooftop deck and railing) and then, if it seems to make the LR too dark, consider skylights. Smiling, I have altered projects more than once to save trees! You can't replace 30 ft trees. In terms of furniture layout, 12' could work, 14' is perfect. I know knee wall is more flexible/practical, but to me "the look" of these rooms allows little or no kneewall....See Moregeoffrey_b
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