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Garden Room
I am thinking of building a garden room that I can sit in on cool sunny days
and also grow some plants. I don't want an all glass conservatory type building that will be uncomfortable to sit in, and I don't want a summer house that will be too dark for plants to grow. I suppose what I want is a partially glassed roof, but what proportion would be best? Any tips or experience? Colin |
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"Colin Hammond" wrote in message ... I am thinking of building a garden room that I can sit in on cool sunny days and also grow some plants. I don't want an all glass conservatory type building that will be uncomfortable to sit in, and I don't want a summer house that will be too dark for plants to grow. I suppose what I want is a partially glassed roof, but what proportion would be best? Any tips or experience? Colin Colin are you in a position to do what we have done? We have moved our kitchen into the Dining Room, thus making it a huge Farmhouse type Kitchen/Diner and then cut out the rest of the brickwork from the kitchen window and door, put in Patio Double Doors and turned the kitchen as was, into a garden room. This room faces dues South and we are now drawing up plans to put a verandah along the complete back of the house to enable us to keep the doors open even if it is raining but warm. The Patio doors are of a design that even though are separate entities in their own right, there is no central pillar left in the doorway when they are both opened. An advantage of doing what we did was, that the new kitchen/diner was all new stuff so at one point, we had two kitchens and thus no eating interuption :-)) Worth looking at? Mike |
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Mike wrote:
"Colin Hammond" wrote in message ... I am thinking of building a garden room that I can sit in on cool sunny days and also grow some plants. I don't want an all glass conservatory type building that will be uncomfortable to sit in, and I don't want a summer house that will be too dark for plants to grow. I suppose what I want is a partially glassed roof, but what proportion would be best? Any tips or experience? Colin Colin are you in a position to do what we have done? We have moved our kitchen into the Dining Room, thus making it a huge Farmhouse type Kitchen/Diner and then cut out the rest of the brickwork from the kitchen window and door, put in Patio Double Doors and turned the kitchen as was, into a garden room. This room faces dues South and we are now drawing up plans to put a verandah along the complete back of the house to enable us to keep the doors open even if it is raining but warm. The Patio doors are of a design that even though are separate entities in their own right, there is no central pillar left in the doorway when they are both opened. An advantage of doing what we did was, that the new kitchen/diner was all new stuff so at one point, we had two kitchens and thus no eating interuption :-)) Worth looking at? Mike The place I've just left had a front room with 6' high windows on 2' ish base wall on the whole southern and western sides (designed it that way in conjunction with the architect). It was wonderfully gardeny, summer and winter, though a B* to heat. Pelargoniums (pelargonia?) in flower all the year round. What I'd suggest, if you're adding a single-storey extension but don't want to go the whole conservatory hog, would be something like that, but with up to half the roof glassed. Even a quarter or less of the roof area in glass would make a huge difference to the light, as a roof light brings in twice as much (is it even more?) daylight as an upright window of the same area. This will give a lovely conservatory feel without so much impact on the heating bill. If you need privacy (luckily, I didn't, as we lived out in the bush), you can use venetian blinds or those cane rollers: these would give a more airy feel than curtains, and don't block any light during the day. (If I shave and learn how to choose clothes, do you think I could get a job with those extraordinary camp Scotsmen?) -- Mike. |
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