Making A Back Porch Into A Room

So she is happy enough.

Making a back porch into a room.

No my wife has not managed to turn it into a room yet. I plan on staying in my home after my husband passed away and i know i would love that room so much. Using basic interior design strategies you can make your porch and patio into a second living room. Tour the 660 square foot cottage.

Replace a wooden porch base with a concrete slab for example in some cases. 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. The number one reason i dreamed up this entire project was light. I have been building outdoor furniture for a few rooms.

On the other hand you may create a completely different mood making your. The porch in the backyard. Woven vinyl coated polyester is waterproof and resists fading. Acrylics available at tent awning and fabric stores sew up easily into soft furnishings and curtains.

It has 2 doors on the outside one goes into our kitchen and one goes into the master bedroom. The porch in the front yard. Your home looks beautiful. That set of 4 widows you see in the center are the widows of our family room.

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. But when it was a porch all that light was wasted shining on a bland storage room wall. Rather than crowd the porch with furniture dueling porch swings were hung and guests are encouraged to pull out chairs.

Lighting up the old porch. Good luck with your plans. And an outdoor kitchen area. The homeowner widened and deepened the front stoop turning it into a porch that s 28 by 8 feet.

Depending on how elaborate you want to make the enclosed porch you can get away with doing most if not all the labor yourself. Consider using synthetic weather resistant fabrics on exposed porch areas. Review all roof and foundation needs. She is bothered by some birds over the back porch though.

Make sure that the finished room will have an 8 foot ceiling after the interior is finished too. A small roof that covers a small porch base might need some expansion to create a 10 by 12 foot room for example. 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.