Making A Back Porch Into A Room

The homeowner widened and deepened the front stoop turning it into a porch that s 28 by 8 feet.

Making a back porch into a room.

A small roof that covers a small porch base might need some expansion to create a 10 by 12 foot room for example. Tour the 660 square foot cottage. You will see a difference in your heating and cooling bills. Replace a wooden porch base with a concrete slab for example in some cases.

Using basic interior design strategies you can make your porch and patio into a second living room. So she is happy enough. Consider using synthetic weather resistant fabrics on exposed porch areas. 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.

I plan on staying in my home after my husband passed away and i know i would love that room so much. But when it was a porch all that light was wasted shining on a bland storage room wall. That set of 4 widows you see in the center are the widows of our family room. The porch in the backyard.

Durable fabrics for a covered porch include sheeting ticking and toweling. 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. Review all roof and foundation needs. Lighting up the old porch.

On the other hand you may create a completely different mood making your. 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. It has 2 doors on the outside one goes into our kitchen and one goes into the master bedroom. The number one reason i dreamed up this entire project was light.

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. She is bothered by some birds over the back porch though. Your home looks beautiful.

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. Depending on how elaborate you want to make the enclosed porch you can get away with doing most if not all the labor yourself. 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. Rather than crowd the porch with furniture dueling porch swings were hung and guests are encouraged to pull out chairs.

Good luck with your plans. And an outdoor kitchen area. No my wife has not managed to turn it into a room yet.