For anyone who spent the season in the city, summer in Calgary is a truly wonderful experience. The nickname of the sunniest city in Canada is well deserved, and the temperature hovers around a balmy 20 degrees most days. This means that you’ll want to spend plenty of time outside soaking up the sun and making the most of the time when your garden isn’t covered in snow. However, Calgary is also known as the windy city of Canada, and the summer time bugs can be unbearable at times. This is why you need to be thinking about a summer ready sunroom to live your best indoor outdoor lifestyle.
Bringing The Outdoors Indoors
If you’ve never been in one before, a sunroom is a quick and easy addition for your home that sits on top of your existing deck or patio. The key feature is big windows to let large amounts of natural sunlight into your space. You can add to the effect with skylights if you have the ceiling height to make it work. Your windows will be double (or even triple!) glazed so your sunroom will be naturally heated throughout the day, meaning you’ll feel like you’re outside with the warmth and the sunshine without having to worry about the wind or the bugs.
Furnishing Your Sunroom
To really transform your Calgary home with a sunroom, you can’t just turn it into a junk storage space or simply an extension of the room that it attaches to. You want this new space to be somewhere special with a dedicated use.
Make It Formal
For most people, their summer-ready sunroom becomes a formal living room and they furnish it as such with new couches and end tables to make the room feel luxurious. Adding a mirror to the external wall of your home will make the space feel larger than it is, and you’ll want to finish the formal vibe with an area rug and a coffee table.
A New Dining Experience
If you’re the kind of family that likes to grill and eat outside a lot during the summer months, then turning your new sunroom into a dining room will be a game changer. You’ll get all the feeling of being outside with the views out over your garden and the natural warmth from the big windows, but you’ll also get shade all day long and freedom from worrying about bug bites spoiling your eating experience. Beyond the obvious table and chairs, add storage for plates, cups and cutlery so you can keep everything in one place.
Workout With A View
Another great use for your new sunroom is to turn it into the ultimate home gym. You’ll have an inspirational view and you can open some of the windows to let the breezes in to cool you down. All you need is a weight bench and a yoga mat to get started, but you’ll quickly realize your sunroom can hold larger pieces of exercise equipment like an elliptical machine or a treadmill to make your new home gym an easy part of your fitness routine.
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