How to Select a Sunroom Design

Select a sunroom design that works best with the design of your home and your lifestyle

People are choosing to enjoy natural sunlight all year round with the addition of a sunroom to their property. Apart from adding value to the home, sunrooms allow your family to benefit from the outdoors in a comfortable environment while avoiding unhealthy exposure to sun rays in the summer, and chilling winds and rainfalls in winter. From home offices to family entertainment centers and luxurious home spas, sunrooms can by used in many ways to unify with the rest of your home as well as your lifestyle.

As sunrooms come in endless designs, shapes and dimensions, establish first the function of the sunroom. This way you narrow choices to the styles that best meet your requirements from a sunroom as well as your remodeling budget. Make the sunroom an integral part of your existing property by matching the style of the sunroom with your home's design and roof's dimensions. A sunroom that function as a family room will have couches and media centers while a home spa sunroom would accommodate hot tubs or Jacuzzis.

Although available in many configurations, the four most popular remodeling NY designs for sunrooms are:

Studio Sunroom – Open space with a flat roof design, studio sunrooms easily adapt to a spectrum of home styles and roof designs.

Cathedral Sunroom – A breathtaking design which plays with height and mimics architectural focal features of a cathedral. The high ceiling, usually vaulted, opens up space to let in natural sunlight to flood the room in abundance.

California Sunroom – This design is all about maximizing natural sunlight penetration into the space via an angled roof.

Solarium – A transparent enclosure with a curved eaves roof to allow in total sunlight, and experience the full outdoors from within.

Simple energy savings adjustments to your sun room remodeling will allow you to enjoy the outdoors while saving on energy. Typically comprised of glass and windows, sunrooms can store a lot of warm air that can be easily distributed to the rest of the house with ceiling fans. Solar panels can be installed to yield solar energy to heat up your property. Low-e glass windows will protect the sunroom from the dangerous rays of the sun. R-Factor insulation to the ceiling, walls and floor of the sunroom will keep in cool or warm air that can be redistributed to the rest of the house to save on energy.