Creating a Sunroom or Screened-in Porch

A sunroom main purpose is to enhance your whole-year-around experience in your garden. Before Creating a Sunroom or Screened-in Porch as an extension of your home, we suggest you work with an architect or experienced contractor to determine if a sunroom makes sense for your home. When considering a sunroom, you can consider going about this in 3 ways:

Convert an existing porch in front or back of the house, keep the existing structure and simply enclose the walls. Usually this is the cheapest and fastest option to create new indoor-outdoor experience.

Pull-down the old porch and built a new fit-for-purpose designed new structure and reuse the original footprint. It is typically much better suited as a sunroom, but taking advantage of the old footprint=foundation, makes the cost still manageable.

Complete new addition to the house or incorporate to the new built of the entire house. Can also be as a variant of pulling down an old porch-structure, built build back new new sunroom with completely different footprint and shape/size. This will give you the ultimate sunroom, but is also the most extensive, expensive and complex built.

Irony: Number 1 reason for homeowners creating a Garden Sunroom or Screened-in Porch is “Add additional living space“, while “Adding value to the property” comes last. While for firms selling sunrooms, adding “value to property” is given as number 1 sales argument.

Keep in mind the following:

A couple of pointers when you want to start on creating a Sunroom or Screened-in Porch:

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