For those without a sunroom in Calgary, winter can feel like it’s never ending, and cabin fever can quickly spread through your home. With all the snow on the ground limiting outside entertainment, it’s easy to feel cramped and cooped up, and with winter lasting well into April and beyond, spring can feel like a long way away. Fortunately, it’s easy to get yourself an all-season sunroom, and with it, the extra space that will make all the difference in winter.
Key Features of an All-Season Sunroom
You’ll often hear an all-season sunroom referred to as a four season sunroom, and both of them refer to an insulated full room extension that connects to your home that can even be connected to your home’s existing heating and cooling system so that you can use your new space in every season. The key features of an all-season sunroom are the big glass windows, typically on three sides of the room, that give you the best views out over the winter landscape. The fourth wall will be the one that connects to your home, so it’s the perfect place for a long couch for the best views out over your garden.
The Winter Benefits of a Sunroom
There’s nothing like having a sunroom in Calgary during the long winter months, and you’ll enjoy all of these benefits and more:
- Extra space – the first and most obvious reason why a sunroom helps you in the winter months is it instantly adds an extra room to your home. Whether you choose to use it as an adults-only space to give yourself somewhere to breathe and relax, or turn it over to the kids for a winter playroom where you can contain the noise and the chaos, everyone in your family will benefit from having some extra space from each other to cool down the cabin fever.
- Indoor/outdoor living – the big glass windows in your sunroom give you all the benefits of being outside (namely the views) while avoiding all the worst parts of being outside in winter (namely the freezing cold weather). Setting up your furniture so that it all faces the window makes the outside world the main focus of your sunroom, and makes for a more intimate setting. There’s nothing like sitting on your couch under a blanket during one of the big Calgary snowstorms, knowing you’re safe and warm as the snow piles up outside.
- Become party central – finally, there’s plenty of celebrations and holidays in the winter months, and your sunroom helps you to become party central. Your sunroom can simply be another entertaining space, in which case you’ll want to make sure you have plenty of extra seating for your guests, or a more intimate dining experience, in which case you’ll want to find the right size dining table and some mood lighting to help get the right vibes.
However you choose to use your sunroom, be sure to talk through your intentions with your sunroom contractor to help you get the sunroom of your dreams.
