What is a Park Model Sunroom?

The moment you step inside a park model sunroom, you’ll immediately see how it got its name. The main feature of any sunroom is the big windows on three sides of the room, giving you the best view out of your campground at any time of day. Depending on your budget and personal preferences, you may opt for full floor to ceiling windows, a half window design for more privacy, or a traditional wall and window structure on two sides with a mesh screen leading to the outside. No matter which design you choose, you can add to the sunlight with skylights and glass-panelled doors.

Design Factors For Your Park Model Sunroom

When you work with Desert Sun Patios to construct your park model sunroom, you’ll be amazed at how much of the work is customizable to your campground property. Here are some of the factors you’ll need to consider when you’re working with us to design your dream trailer sunroom:

• The foundations – the biggest factor that will dictate the overall size and shape of your trailer sunroom is what you’re going to use for the foundations. If you have an existing deck or solid patio outside your park model, you’ll be able to use that as the base for your sunroom, but you’ll be limited by the size of your deck or patio. However, if you only have grass or dirt outside, you can dig the foundations wherever you like, but you’ll find that this option increases the overall cost of the project due to the cost of excavating the dirt. 
• Position of external exits – most people will place the external door of their trailer sunroom at one end or the other to give them the maximum amount of usable space. However, you can add multiple exits to make the best use of your outside space and to reduce foot traffic in your sunroom, or place one directly opposite the external door of your park model to allow for direct access to your home while leaving the sunroom free for use throughout the day.
• Proposed purpose – finally, decisions about the number and the size of windows as well as any potential skylights will be dictated by how you intend to use your trailer sunroom. For example, if you want it as an observation station, you’ll want the biggest windows that your structure will support. On the other hand, if you want it as a guest bedroom, you’ll want some walls to offer some privacy to the many guests who will come visit your new trailer sunroom.

What is a Trailer Sunroom?

You may have come across sunrooms as a residential upgrade around Calgary. They’re big windowed rooms that typically sit on a deck or patio to the rear of a house and provide the perfect space to enjoy the best of the summer months without worrying about bugs, heat or humidity. A sunroom for your trailer is exactly the same, just on a slightly smaller scale. It does require a hard surface, so if you’ve already got an existing deck outside your trailer, it can be quick and easy to build. A sunroom is characterized by large windows, sometimes going from floor to ceiling, and they fit the profile of your trailer so you can make them as long or as short as possible.

Using Your Trailer Sunroom

Once you’ve made the decision to extend your camping footprint with a sunroom for your trailer, you’ll quickly brainstorm a lot of different ways that you could use your new space. Here’s a few easy ones to get your camping season off to a great start.

Morning Zen

Evenings at the campground are for fires and socializing. Mornings are for coffee and quiet contemplation. You can set your new trailer sunroom up to make the most of the peaceful start to the day with a couple of comfy armchairs and somewhere to put your coffee. Make sure to add some soft blankets to keep you warm during the shoulder seasons and suddenly you’ll find yourself looking forward to mornings.

Storage Central

Camping comes with a whole bunch of gear that you want to have ready access to during the day, but that you don’t necessarily want to put outside your trailer in case of wind or rain damage. A sunroom becomes the ultimate indoor/outdoor storage base where everything you need for a day’s fun at the campground is easily accessible while keeping your main living space clear of camping detritus.

Room For a Friend

A more unusual way to use your sunroom for your trailer is to make it into a guest bedroom (or maybe just a place for you to sleep feeling like you’re truly outdoors!). Camping is always more fun with friends, and being able to offer them somewhere comfortable to sleep over that isn’t a cot on your trailer living room floor will make you very popular during the season. You can get creative with a simple futon or a pull out sofa bed so the space can double up as an extra living room during the day. 

Why Choose a Sunroom

Adding a traditional home extension can be expensive and overly complicated for a park model trailer set up. On the other hand, a sunroom can be built quickly and easily on top of your existing deck or patio, allowing you to get a sizeable increase in your home’s footprint on a budget. 

A sunroom is the ideal park model add-on because it has lots of glass windows that will naturally light and heat your home. The glass windows typically face out on three sides of the sunroom so you’ll get lots of natural sunlight no matter what time of day you sit out in your sunroom. Sunroom windows are usually double glazed which means that they insulate your sunroom throughout the day, keeping it naturally warm into the evening hours. During the heat of the day, you can also heat the rest of your park model simply by opening the door to your sunroom and allowing the sun to do the rest. 

Creating A Summer Sanctuary

With the big glass windows, summer will quickly become your favourite season to spend in your new trailer sunroom. To create a true summer sanctuary, try some of these tips.

Add Greenery

Potted plants make a great addition to any room, but you’ll find that your more exotic green babies thrive in the high levels of sunlight and heat that your sunroom generates. Aim for a mixture of floor based pots and ones that hang from hooks above your windows to merge the indoors and outdoors without having to get up from your seat.

Add Seating

Even if it’s just the two of you in the park model, your sunroom benefits from a variety of seating options, all of which should be facing the big windows to get the best of the view. A classic look would have a wicker couch and some armchairs creating an indoor/outdoor vibe, while those with a more eclectic taste might pick up second chairs and recliners to create a vintage feel as you’re relaxing in the sunshine.

Add Softness

While you’ll probably spend a lot of your summer days hanging out in your new park model sunroom, you’ll find that the windows trap a lot of heat. This keeps the room warm well into the evening, making it the perfect place to cuddle up under a soft blanket or two. You can increase the heat insulating properties with a thick rug underfoot, as well as heavy drapes that will frame the view out over your summer garden all season long. 

What is a Park Model Sunroom?

If you’ve never seen a sunroom for a trailer, you’re in for a treat. These are single room extensions that attach to one side of your park model home. While they are full rooms, they don’t require digging or foundations, and can easily sit on top of your deck or patio making them quick and easy to install. 

Features of a Sunroom

A park model sunroom helps you make the most of summer because of the large amount of windows that you get in the new space. The whole purpose of a sunroom is to let light and warmth into the room, so most of the wall space will actually be windows. When combined with the size of your park model, you can switch off the heating by opening the door to your home and allowing the natural insulating property of your sunroom to keep your whole house warm. A park model sunroom also gives you a whole new room to play with so you can let your inner interior designer come out to play.

Creating a Sunroom Summer Oasis

Your new park model sunroom gives you a whole blank canvas to play with as you consider how to turn your space into a summer oasis. It’s all about the vibes when it comes to sunroom decoration, so here are some simple themes to create that summer feeling all year long.

Life’s a Beach

Nothing conjures up the image of summer more than a day at the beach, so pick pastel colours for your soft furnishing, combined with sand yellow and sea blues as your accent palette. Throw in some driftwood knick knacks and pictures or paintings of the seaside and you’ll be having beach dreams each time you enter your new sunroom.

Floral Patterns

Your sunroom is the perfect place to enjoy all the hard work you’ve put into your garden, so it makes sense to pick your decor to match. Bright floral patterns work well for your soft furnishings and artwork as feature pieces, and you’ll therefore want neutral, cool tones for your walls and rugs to offset the flowers and plants. 

Indoor Warmth

Summer in Calgary is all about making the most of the few hot months available to us. Using strong, bold colours throughout your sunroom means that all the sunlight will reflect warmly throughout the day and make your new space cosy and inviting. Use solid blocks of colour to make the most of the warmth and play with different palettes to create a true summer oasis for your park model sunroom. 

The Benefits Of A Park Model Screen Room

As you can imagine, a screen room is a great addition to your trailer during the hot Calgary summer months as the mesh windows offer a very different experience to traditional glass. They are also inexpensive compared to a full room extension or even a sunroom add-on as the lack of solid walls helps to keep the price low. You’ll find you’ll save energy as well as you’ll spend more time outside and less time trying to run your air conditioning  all summer long. 

In addition to the cost effectiveness and extra space, some of the most noticeable benefits of a park model screen room include:

• Summer breezes – while Calgary is known as the windy city, there’s something very peaceful about the way that mesh screens take the sting out of the strongest summer winds and leave you with a cooling breeze in your screen room. If you’re worried about rain coming in, you can install solid plexiglass screens that can be removed to give you extra protection during the usual Calgary summer storms. These can also be simple rolled sheets of plastic that you pull down like shades when the bad weather rolls in.
• Protection from the bugs – as every Calgary resident knows, the main drawback of summer in the city is the bugs that seem to multiply every day and evenings can be impossible due to the incessant biting. This is where a park model screen room gives you the ultimate summer sanctuary. You get all the benefits of being outside into the evenings with the warm winds and the sunset views while the mesh screens do their job of keeping the pesky bugs out of your trailer. 
• A quiet space – not only does a screen room give you a sizeable percentage increase on your property’s footprint, but you also gain a whole new room in your home to make into a quiet summer oasis. Your park model screen room will attach to either your front or back door, meaning that you always have a means to close the door on your noisy family and enjoy some peace and quiet. 

Using Your Park Model Screen Room

A park model screen room is a quick and easy install, especially if you have an existing deck or patio to use as the foundations. You can modify it in a variety of different ways, from having a half wall, half mesh system to provide some privacy, to adding a couple of glass skylights to let even more natural sunlight into your space. No matter how you choose to customize your trailer screen room, you’ll quickly find a variety of uses for your new space.

Morning Oasis

Part of the magic of owning a trailer is that you’ve got your own parcel of land to enjoy, and there’s no better place to watch the sunrise with a cup of tea or coffee than in your screen room. You get all the perks of being an early bird, such as the bird song and watching the sun bring the world to life without having to worry about the morning bugs. To make the most of your screen room as a place to get your morning zen, choose soft rugs or carpet for the floor to keep things cosy, and add some soft furnishings and blankets to keep the vibe going. Invest in a cushioned armchair and sofa set that you face away from your trailer towards the screens so you feel like you’re sitting in the landscape while enjoying a hot drink. 

Storage And Seating Combo

You can easily make your new trailer screen room run the whole length of your trailer which can almost double the footprint of your whole property. This in turn means that you can section off your screen room for a couple of different uses. A good combination is to have one part function as an outdoor living room with seating for your and your family and tables for drinks and snacks. The other part of your screen room can then be used for storage for all your outdoor gear that you don’t want cluttering up your trailer, such as your gardening tools or any camping gear that you want easy access to. If this is how you want to set up your park model screen room, consider having either a door at either end of the space so you don’t cause traffic flow problems, or put the external door directly across from the main door to your trailer to make a clear split between the two spaces.

A Space For Guests

Finally, the additional space means that your trailer becomes somewhere that people can come visit easily without feeling like sardines in a can. You can easily turn your screen room into a guest bedroom with some black out blinds for night time and a pull out sofa bed so you can use it as a living room during the day. Make sure you have enough lighting for evening time hang outs, and you’ll want to consider having a half wall structure to keep the breezes away from the bed overnight. Your guests will love the feeling of sleeping outside and being able to spend more time with you and your family. 

The Benefits of a Sunroom for a Park Model

Adding a sunroom to your trailer truly enhances your summer experience. A sunroom has big windows on all sides of the room, so when you place it on the south facing side of your mobile home, you are guaranteed to have sunshine and warmth in your sunroom all summer long. It can connect to your mobile home via one of your external doors, so you can be sure of some peace and quiet on those days when everyone is inside.

Traditional Sunroom Uses

The major benefit of expanding your trailer with a sunroom is that you are significantly adding to the square footage of your home. The big windows will give you beautiful views out over the rest of your property as well as keeping your new space bright and warm even on the cooler nights at the end of summer. You’ll find that there are many ways to use your new space, but these are the most common ways to make the most of your sunroom:

• Additional living room – the most popular way that Alberta park model trailer owners use their sunrooms is as an additional living room. This might be a replacement for your main living space which will free up room in your old living room for something else, or it might be a whole new living room experience. Many people make this their more formal living room with nicer furniture and a set up more geared towards conversation than watching TV. However, it can also be a great opportunity to create a room just for your kids to play in; the fact that you can shut the door on the noise of the chaos is a big bonus!
• Formal dining room – in keeping with the theme of using your mobile home sunroom for entertaining, another common usage for sunrooms is as a formal dining room. This approach gives you much more room for a longer dining table and fancier chairs, and in the same vein as the living room, you can either make your new dining room more adult friendly with nicer chairs and furnishings, or cater more for the kids so they have somewhere to eat while the grown ups hang out elsewhere. No matter what kind of dining experience you end up choosing, make sure you find a quiet morning for a cup of coffee with the morning light in your sunroom – there’s nothing quite like it!
• Zen yoga studio – finally, the rise of home yoga workout apps means that setting up a space in your mobile home for yoga is becoming increasingly popular. The natural sunlight and warmth that comes from the big windows in your sunroom makes it the perfect place to create your zen yoga studio. All you need to get started is a mat and some calming music, but you can easily go all out on decorations, diffusers and yoga straps and blocks to help take your practice to the next level. Being able to shut the door to the rest of the house will make your yoga time a truly meditative experience. 

Alternative Ways to Use Your Trailer Sunroom

You’ll only have so many options in terms of the location and size of your park model add-on. It will be important to talk about your options with your sunroom contractor, who will want to look at the position of your home in regards to the property lines and access doors, as well as working with you to get the most number of big glass windows possible. If you’re looking for alternative options to make your sunroom stand out as the key feature of your park model, there are a whole range of ways to use your sunroom beyond just a quiet place to enjoy the summer warmth:

• Plant room – with the current trend for exotic house plants showing no sign of slowing down, you’ll find your sunroom the perfect place for your green babies that need more warmth, sunlight and humidity. Consider shelves just below the windows so that your plants get the most of the Calgary summer sunshine. You can also have plants hanging down from above the windows to allow you keep more plants in your trailer sunroom. 
• Home gym – if working out is your jam, then you’ll be amazed at how well a sunroom works for a home gym. Not only do you get a whole bunch of extra space for all of your equipment, but the warmth from the sunshine will give you a “hot” workout every time. In exercise terms, this means that you’ll burn more calories as well as soaking up all the extra vitamin D. 
• Guest bedroom – finally, summer is always a good time to get friends and family together, but having people stay over can be tricky with the space confines of a mobile home. By turning your new sunroom into a guest bedroom, you can start to host more, and your guests will love waking up to glorious Calgary sunshine each morning. With a bit of clever design, you can double the guest bedroom as a living room with fold out couches and end tables that double as storage for your guests. You may also consider adding blinds or curtains to your windows and patio doors.

Key Features of a Sunroom

A sunroom is different to any other home extension project out there. It can be built in a much shorter time frame compared to a typical park model addition, and you can work with your sunroom contractor to completely customize the position of the windows and external doors to get the best of your outdoor views and the position of the sun throughout the day. A sunroom roof will typically follow the flat line of your park model trailer, so you will have room for a small ceiling fan to help the air circulate throughout the warm summer months. 

Extending Your Home

Building a park model sunroom gives an incredible increase in your square footage. A whole extra room can be a game changer when space is at a premium. It’s a single room addition that attaches directly to your home. This helps to keep the cost of the project down as you only need to build three walls, and you can often use the deck or patio outside your park model as a foundation for the structure. Even if you have to dig, this is a minimal process and shouldn’t expand the budget and timeline of your park model sunroom project too much. The only limit to the size of your park model add-on is the size of your outdoor space and your overall budget for the project. 

Let There Be Light

Another key feature of a sunroom that makes you feel like you’re living outdoors is that it’s designed to let as much light in as possible. To help this, you’ll have large glass framed windows instead of solid walls. While this can make your sunroom feel a little like a fishbowl at times, it means that you’ll get natural sunlight all day long, and the room will act as a heat trap even in spring and fall. You can add to this by choosing double or even triple glazed windows to insulate the room further, and adding a subtle UV coating helps to protect your furniture and artwork from bleaching in the sun. Finally, you should consider interior wall insulation that can be added as you’re building the sunroom walls, as this will prevent heat loss during the winter and keep the heat locked in during the summer months. 

Keep Things Cool

Finally, your trailer or park model sunroom connects to your existing HVAC system (unlike a screen room or screened in porch), meaning that you can use this indoor-outdoor space all year long. You’ll also find that the heat retention properties of the sunroom can actually heat up the rest of your park model home, helping to save on your energy and heating bills. There’s something quite satisfying about simply opening the door to your sunroom on one of the many hot Calgary summer days and letting the natural warmth from the sun keep your whole park model trailer warm well into the evening hours. There’s nothing like sitting at the window watching the sunset (or sunrise!) from your park model sunroom.  

How To Use A Park Model Sunroom

The addition of a new room in your park model or trailer home can feel overwhelming, especially when you’ve finally got used to living in a smaller space. It’s important to have a purpose for your sunroom so it doesn’t just end up becoming a storage or junk room. Here are some top tips for making your sunroom feel like part of the outdoors include:

Face the windows 

When faced with a completely blank canvas like your brand new park model add-on, it’s tempting to put your furniture in the usual formation so that everyone can see each other. However, this ignores the biggest feature of your sunroom, so change the paradigm by facing the furniture towards the windows so that you’re sat next to each other looking outside. A common way to achieve this new set up is to have pairs of armchairs next to each other 

Bring plants inside 

With all the sunshine that Calgary has to offer, a park model sunroom is the best place to keep your houseplants. Not only will you gain the health benefits of living plants inside, but you’ll also create a blurred boundary with the outside world. The natural insulating properties of your sunroom also helps to increase the heat inside the room, meaning you can grow more exotic plants. Add a humidifier and you’ll be able to pick just about any type of plant that you want and just sit back and watch them thrive. 

Minimal lighting 

Finally, you need to allow the natural sunlight coming in through the big sunroom windows to be your main light source. Small side table lights or uplights in the corners should be enough to make the outdoors the central focus of your park model or trailer sunroom. You can also make the best use of the big windows by installing a large mirror on the external wall of your home. Not only will it reflect the sunlight back into the space, keeping it bright and airy all day long, but the mirror will make your sunroom look bigger giving you a feeling of being outside. 

How Do Park Model And Trailer Sunrooms Work?

A traditional sunroom is built directly onto the back of your home to overlook your garden. For a park model home, there’s usually only one entrance, so the sunroom will be built directly outside the front of your house so that there’s a connection into the main living area. In these scenarios, this means that you’ll need a small entryway to get you and your family situated into the main parts of your home. 

Benefits of a Park Model Sunroom

The actual sunroom itself will be a sight to behold. It’s effectively an extra room, but with large glass windows on three sides instead of walls. These large panels mean that you get unparalleled views out over your outside space, while also getting full protection from the worst of the Calgary weather systems. If you’re someone who loves summer but who hates living in the windiest city in Canada, a park model sunroom is a great choice.

A sunroom is a versatile space. Many park model and trailer homeowners already have worked out efficient living systems for eating, sleeping and relaxing, and the sudden addition of all that extra space can feel overwhelming. It’s easy to choose the simple of option of putting some seating furniture in your new sunroom so that you and your family can embrace the outdoors in your sunroom, but you could also change it into a spacious dining room, a home office with a view to die for, and even an extra bedroom for guests to use. 

Park Model and Trailer Sunroom Construction

Adding a sunroom to your park model or trailer home feels like it should be a major project, but with the experts at Desert Sun Patios, you’ll be surprised at how quick and easy the construction process can be. If you have an existing deck or patio, our team of builders can use that as a foundation for your sunroom instead of having to dig foundations. 

Sunrooms are a relatively quick installation, with the entire processing from consultation to that first cup of coffee in your new space taking only a few months. They have a great return on investment ratio for when you’re ready to sell up, so get in touch to start your park model sunroom journey.

What Is A Trailer Sunroom?

If you’ve never seen a sunroom attached to a trailer, you’re in for a treat when you visit the Desert Sun Patio downtown Calgary showroom. A trailer sunroom is one that is specifically designed to match the long exterior of your trailer. It will usually have an external door and large windows that lead all the way across the outside wall to let as much light and heat in as possible. It can sit on top of an existing deck or patio, or you can dig foundations if you only have grass or asphalt outside your home. You can make them just about any size which makes them an incredible addition to your trailer as long as you have done your research ahead of time. 

Planning and Preparing For Your Sunroom

There are some things you need to think about and know before you can turn your trailer sunroom dream into reality:

• Local planning laws – the most restrictions that you’ll find when it comes to preparing your sunroom plans will be your local planning laws. Calgary building codes have strict rules about building profiles and proximity to other dwellings, so you’ll have to make sure your plans meet all the right rules before building. You’ll also need to consult your landlord if you have one, as they may have rule or charges about adding extensions to buildings on their property. 
• Budget – one of the biggest considerations that you’ll have when you’re planning out your trailer sunroom is how much you can realistically afford to spend on the project. Your overall footprint size will be the biggest driver of cost, as will the types of materials that you use for your windows and walls. 
• Usage – finally, you need to decide if you want a three season sunroom that you close and shut up for winter, or one that is four seasons that you need to connect to your home’s HVAC system. The former is cheaper but you get less use out of it, while the latter allows you to lounge around in your new sunroom all winter, but will push your hearing costs up a little more. 

It’s worth talking your plans over with our team of experts. We know all the planning rules and regulations, and we’ll work with you every step of the way to make your trailer sunroom dream a reality.

This is where considering a park model trailer comes in. A park model trailer is a fixed based home, typically 1000 square feet or less. This means you can buy a bigger lot if you want more garden, or keep a small of plot land to keep your property taxes down. 

One of the main attractions of a park model trailer is the small space, meaning that you save money on property taxes and it forces you to make sure that everything in your home is needed and wanted. There’s no room for junk or a closet full of things you don’t need. The act of clearing out your large home can be very cathartic, offering you a chance to really consider what things spark joy and what things hold memories that you’d rather be rid of. You can be sure that whatever you take with you to your park model trailer will be things that you have actively chosen to keep, rather than random things that you’ve just never had the chance to throw out. 

However, a park model trailer limits you on the amount of space that you have for entertaining guests, especially in Calgary’s warm summer months. This is why many people are turning to 3 season sunrooms as a way of expanding their park model trailer space without having to move or upgrade to a full-size home. A Desert Sun Patios’ three season park model trailer sunroom is one that doesn’t connect to your home’s HVAC system. Instead, it relies on well insulated walls, tempered glass windows; the quality material allows the heat from a small heater to keep the room warm during the cooler fall and spring evenings, and cool during the warm summer days. 

Even though some people worry about the long, cold Alberta winter, Calgary sun rooms are a great way to spend the spring and fall as well as the warm summer months. Of course, you can still use your park model trailer 3 season sunroom in winter; it might require an additional space heater (or an extra blanket!) If you’re not sure, here are some of the benefits of having a park model trailer sunroom:

Easy to construct

Trailer sunrooms are remarkably easy to add on, as most park model trailers are a standard size. This means it’s possible for contractors to buy materials in bulk. This means that they can pass the savings on to you and the work can start easily. A typical installation can take 14 days or less, and the time is even shorter if you already have a park model trailer deck or patio that the constructors can build directly on top of.

Extra storage

Park model sunrooms allow you to have some extra storage space for things likes books and memorabilia, as well as new wall space to hang photos and paintings on. Many people find that 3 season sunrooms allow them to create a more formal area for guests and for day to day living. 3 season sunrooms can also be used for home office spaces as they provide plenty of natural sunlight and lots of space for your desk and filing cabinets. 

Additional break out space

Even when there are no guests around, there comes a time when all families and couples need a space to escape to. Many park model trailer home owners turn their three season sunroom into a TV free room, meaning that you can create separate zones in the house so everybody gets to do what they want without disturbing each other. 

Trailer sunrooms give you a pleasant warm space to retreat to, including the ability to have closed doors for those times when you need a bit of peace and quiet but don’t want to leave the house to get it. The natural insulation provided by a three season park model trailer sunroom means that closing the doors to the rest of the house will only help to keep you warm and comfortable. 

Feel the heat

Calgary sunrooms typically benefit from warm spring and fall days, and the increased number of windows means that your sunroom won’t need much of a heating system. The power of the sun will assist in keeping the room warm, and by keeping open the doors to the rest of the house, you’ll barely need to touch the thermostat until winter comes. Of course, you can increase the effectiveness of your trailer sunroom by purchasing better insulation for the walls as well as glazed windows to trap more heat. You can further increase the effectiveness of your park model trailer glazed windows by buying windows that are filled with inert gases such as argon. The gas inside the window traps more heat than regular air, making them much more efficient at keeping a warm room warm and a cool room cool.

Adding A Patio Cover

Despite the low cost, there might be several reasons that make you think twice about getting a Desert Sun Patios park model trailer sunroom. The main reason that puts people off are the local planning rules, especially if you rent your trailer from a landlord. In these situations, your landlords are unlikely to let you build on their property unless you own the building outright. Another reason are the building codes that might prevent you from building the sunroom of your dreams, and no-one wants to settle for something less than perfection when it comes to big home improvement investments.

If this sounds true for you, then you might want to consider adding a patio cover instead. These simple structures attach to the outside of your trailer and stretch out as far as you want in your yard space, providing you with shade from the summer heat and the feeling of being inside while enjoying the breezes and smells of being outside. 

Benefits Of A Park Model Trailer Patio Cover

Just like a trailer sunroom, there are many benefits of a park model patio cover:

• Cheap cost – a patio cover is one of the cheapest outdoor home improvement projects out there. At it’s very basic concept, a patio cover is a piece of fabric or aluminium sheeting suspended between two poles that stretch out over your deck or patio. You can add strength with external beams and posts, and you can change the materials that your patio cover is made from. In all of these scenarios, you’ll find the cost considerably cheaper than adding a whole extra room to your home. 
• Instant install – even though the typical trailer sunroom install can be inside two weeks, a patio cover can be done by our team of professionals in less than a day. It is possible to complete the project by yourself, but knowing that the job has been done right and that your patio cover won’t collapse on your guests is worth paying the professionals for. 
• No planning permissions – unlike an extra room like a sunroom, you don’t have to have planning permits for your trailer patio cover. This is because while it creates an extra living area for you to sit under, it’s effectively counted as a permanent sun umbrella, so there are no limits on how big it can be or how it can affect the shape of your home. 

The only caveat when it comes to installing a park model patio cover is that you’ll need to think about what goes underneath it. Typically, you’ll want to utilize the shade for outdoor dining or entertainment, so you’ll want to have a deck or a patio already in place. Of course, you can leave it as just grass, but this makes it harder to have anything more exciting than cheap plastic garden furniture to enjoy your new patio cover. 

Working With Desert Sun Patios

Whether you choose to keep it simple with a park model trailer patio cover, or go whole hog and add a whole extra sunroom, you should talk your project through with our team of experts. We have extensive local knowledge meaning that we can advise you of all necessary permits and building codes that you’ll need to be aware of. We also work with local contractors to make sure that you’re getting the finest quality materials for your budget, as well as local workers to come and install whichever home improvement project you’ve chosen. Finally, we will come and inspect the work and help you work out a maintenance schedule to keep your new extension looking as good as the day you first used it.