Advice on renovating sunroom
Recently bought a house and all of the aluminum sliding glass doors in our sunroom need replacing. Dragging my feet because I can seem to decide what to do. Stay with sliding glass doors or install windows? I prefer a more modern look as opposed to the colonial but I want it to blend with the rest of the house.I also want to redo the flooring instead of the painted concrete. I received a couple estimates to replace them with vinyl sliding doors. (The exterior dark bronze and interior white… they don’t have a dark interior and exterior option). For some reason I’m having trouble envisioning what would look best. Any ideas?
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misecretary
2 years agoIf you remove all shutters, the house will automatically become less colonial. Replace all windows with casements, and no grids and it could look like this:
As for sliding glass doors, I believe one would be sufficient. You can have the same look with longer windows.
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2 years agohoussaon
2 years agoI think you have two options. The first is to get just about what you have now, except the interior will be white. I think the white interior will look nice.
The second option is to build walls to accept new windows. I would get the windows to be the same size as the double windows and center them on the front facing wall. The siding could be wide exposure clapboard. On the gable end, you can do the same configuration or have two sets of double windows.
On the back side of the house, you can do windows with a slider or a set of French doors.
Going with option two will be more expensive, I imagine, but you'll be able to better insulate. You'll also have more wall space to work with.
Here is my mock-up. (I also agree the shutters can go.)
HU-618579274
2 years agoThese are the looks I like. Something that is more conservatory like (which I think would play nice with the existing windows) or sliders.
Yvonne Martin
2 years ago
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