The summer months in Calgary have both pros and cons in your trailer. On the plus side, the small floor size means that it’s relatively easy to keep everything cool if you have some form of air conditioning, and there’s something glorious about having sunlight hit just about every room in your home. On the negative side, your home can heat up quickly if it’s not well insulated, and you can feel cramped if it’s too hot to go outside during the day. This is when you need to think about adding some extra space to your trailer to make the most of your park model during the summer and beyond.
The Benefits Of A Sunroom For A Trailer
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 trailer, you are guaranteed to have sunshine and warmth in your sunroom all summer long. It connects to your trailer via one of your external doors, so you can be sure of some peace and quiet on those days when everyone is inside, and it can easily be connected to your trailer’s HVAC system to allow you to use it all year round.
How 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, but 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 trailer. 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.
