Making A Back Porch Into A Room

Lighting up the old porch.

Making a back porch into a room.

Good luck with your plans. And an outdoor kitchen area. So she is happy enough. Your home looks beautiful.

Acrylics available at tent awning and fabric stores sew up easily into soft furnishings and curtains. Make sure that the finished room will have an 8 foot ceiling after the interior is finished too. The porch in the backyard. 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.

No my wife has not managed to turn it into a room yet. Rather than crowd the porch with furniture dueling porch swings were hung and guests are encouraged to pull out chairs. The porch in the front yard. 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.

She is bothered by some birds over the back porch though. Durable fabrics for a covered porch include sheeting ticking and toweling. Replace a wooden porch base with a concrete slab for example in some cases. That set of 4 widows you see in the center are the widows of our family room.

You will see a difference in your heating and cooling bills. But when it was a porch all that light was wasted shining on a bland storage room wall. The number one reason i dreamed up this entire project was light. Consider using synthetic weather resistant fabrics on exposed porch areas.

The homeowner widened and deepened the front stoop turning it into a porch that s 28 by 8 feet. It has 2 doors on the outside one goes into our kitchen and one goes into the master bedroom. I plan on staying in my home after my husband passed away and i know i would love that room so much. 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.

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. Tour the 660 square foot cottage. 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. I have been building outdoor furniture for a few rooms.

Using basic interior design strategies you can make your porch and patio into a second living room. Review all roof and foundation needs. Woven vinyl coated polyester is waterproof and resists fading.