Do you have a sunroom?

[Liberty Belle]

We looked at a house today that I really liked. It has a really nice sunroom off of the great room. I love the sunroom, but I'm not sure what we would use it for.

I thought maybe some porch-type furniture would be good in there and have it be used as another living room type space. My husband thought a big harvest table to be used for homework, crafts, etc would work in there.

So, if you have one, what do you use yours for?

 

[Feralpeg]

My sister has one. She never uses it. It has nice furniture, but she never sits on it. Her cats really like it!

 

[dumboiu]

I use mine all the time!!!!

 

[golfgal]

My sister has one. She never uses it. It has nice furniture, but she never sits on it. Her cats really like it!

Most people I know do the same--except in the winter when the sunrooms are really cold (usually built with no basement under them) and they complain that they wish they never built one

 

[Liberty Belle]

I use mine all the time!!!!

Do you use it as another sitting/living area? What kind of furniture do you have in there?

 

[golfgal]

Do you use it as another sitting/living area? What kind of furniture do you have in there?

I think pretty much everyone I know has either wicker or rattan furniture in their sunroom with various prints for the cushions.

 

[ksjayhawks]

We had one years ago. Ours was built to look like part of the house on the outside. Stone floor, wood panel walls, huge windows ceiling. We put a comfy sofa and chair, small desk and tv in there. DD used it before and after school to watch tv, do homework, have snacks--she and her friends used it alot. DH and I used it for quiet reading and naps. My friends and I would sit out there and talk when they came over. I used it to study as well.

It was also a great extension of the living/dining area for entertaining both large and small groups. Ours also had a door to the outside--led to a small area with gate for going to front yard or to steps to go to the back yard.

There were only two months--December and January--when it would sometimes get to cold to use it. Ours was built over a basement room, so that helped some with heat.

I really miss it and would love to have another one now.

 

[Metro West]

I don't have a sunroom but I do have a huge screened in porch and I love to sit out there in the warmer months with the ceiling fan going and no bugs to worry me. If I were to glass it in, then I would have a sunroom...but no need right now.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Here are some pictures:

Here are the doors to it from the great room:

With the doors open:

From the office:

The room itself. It's hard to see how nice it is from this picture, though. It's much bigger than it looks and it has a beautiful fixture. Also...shoot...I can't remember what the windows are called but above the long, vertical windows it has small horizontal windows.

Ugh - the pictures are too small to see much. You get the idea, though, I think.

 

[NMAmy]

I think pretty much everyone I know has either wicker or rattan furniture in their sunroom with various prints for the cushions.

Have you been to my house?

We have a sunroom and we use it a lot. Well, not right now--we live in Michigan but come March there will be enough sunshine to warm it up during the day.

I have a wicker sofa and 2 chairs. I also have a small dining room table with sides that fold so we can open it for more people--during the warmer months, we eat out there a lot. We have glass doors from the family room and it really expands our space when we're having a party--it makes the family room almost twice as large.

The sunroom has bookshelves on both sides of the doors. We keep all our board games in the bookshelves and we also play a lot of games out there.

It was one of the main reasons we bought this house.

 

[Feralpeg]

I don't have a sunroom but I do have a huge screened in porch and I love to sit out there in the warmer months with the ceiling fan going and no bugs to worry me. If I were to glass it in, then I would have a sunroom...but no need right now.

I also have a screened lanai. I use it much more than my sister uses her sunroom. No bugs to worry about, although I've had a lot of lizards get in lately. They seem to become through a tiny crack under the door. I guess I need to put something on the door. My cats also like my screened porch!

 

[dumboiu]

Do you use it as another sitting/living area? What kind of furniture do you have in there?

I use our sunroom as a place to eat breakfast (and other meals), read, study, and entertain (informally). When we have people over for dinner, we usually start out in the sunroom for drinks and appetizers and then migrate to the dining room and then to one of the other living areas. We get a lot of use out of our sunroom daily. I think the key is to furnish it in a way that you will use it and in the winter, have a means to keep it warm. Ours is attached to our kitchen which makes it an easy place to use.

Our sunroom is furnished with a round farm table and associated chairs, a floral patterned love-seat and matching chair, coffee table, end table and a faux woodstove heater for extra warmth during the winter (and a ceiling fan in the vaulted ceiling for the summer).

 

[Dax]

I don't have a sunroom but I do have a huge screened in porch and I love to sit out there in the warmer months with the ceiling fan going and no bugs to worry me. If I were to glass it in, then I would have a sunroom...but no need right now.

This is what we have as well. We sit out there on occasion, but the cats and dogs love it.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

My parents have one and they use it all the time. There's a separate sitting area out there and if my parents want to watch different things on TV one will go out to the sunroom. There's has a jacuzzi, which they're in almost nightly. It's also great for parties, an extra entertainment room. They also tend to use it on sunny weekend mornngs, they sit out there with their coffee and the newspaper and watch the birds at the feeder. Cats adore it.

 

[safetymom]

I have a screened porch. I love it and so do my cats.

 

[LeCras]

Yes, we have one which we use mostly in the summer, when we can have the double doors to the garden open.

We have it furnished in beech wood, blue and cream - dining table and chairs, three seater sofa (used mostly by the dog), coffee table, tv and a bookcase with all our cookery books.

Charlotte

 

[DVC Sadie]

Our sunroom is mostly used as a game room. Our ping pong table as well pin ball machine fit in nicely.

We have the requisite rattan sofa and chairs but without the floral print upholstery, plus a glass dining room table.

We use this room all the time. It's the formal living room and dining room that we neglect.

 

[connorsgram]

We have a sunroom. We just built last year and the sunroom was one thing I really wanted. Our sunroom is totally open to the great room and kitchen; has the same hardwood floors, but different paint color. We have a comfy 3 cushion sofa, recliner, rocker, another chair, 2 end tables, TV, and a round low dark brown rattan table that has 4 seats that fit under the table. We sit there to play cards or board games. The sofa is green with a fern pattern in green on it. One chair has green, blue, and dark red ferns and leaves on it. I wanted it to have a sunroom feel, but I didn't want rattan furniture. I use it a lot to watch TV if DH is watching something else in the great room, read, visit with friends, or take naps. It also gives us more seating when we have several people over--you know, men in one area and women in another. We haved a fan in the vaulted ceiling. So far we have been able to use it year round, but we don't have real extreme temps. I love my sunroom.

 

[december]

My parents built on a screened in porch when I was in middle school, and eventually made it into a sunroom. No basements here, so I don't know what all that is about! They put in a window AC and heater, and we used it all year. It was our playroom for awhile, another place for my sister and I to watch TV, and where my boyfriends and I would hang out. Now it is mainly a room where my father watches his sports and Westerns, and they have two new puppies that stay out there. It gets as much use as the rest of the house, if not more. I'd love to have one myself! One day I hope we get to buy dh's aunt's house (she died, we thought we'd get a chance to buy, but her son ended up moving in). One of the main reasons I love it-besides the big rooms and lake out back, is the sunroom on the back.

My parents just have regular furniture in theirs-a few recliners, my father's desk, etc. My mother hangs her clothes there when she can't hang them outside to dry (hates her dryer), and puts her plants there in the winter.

 

[Galahad]

We have a solarium. We're sitting in it right now. It's 17 degrees outside. We have regular furniture in it. We have remote controlled shades - helps keep it warm and cool as needed. We have heating/cooling units in the room. Within the room - which is 26 X 26 is a smaller glass room that our hot-tub is in. It's the best thing we ever did adding this room!!!