Make your house over for a fast sale!
Ann and Peter of Darlington had had their house on the market for over eight months and had had no serious offers. They had gradually come to the conclusion that to sell their house it needed a serious makeover. The house was newly decorated and modern.
Ann’s father was a handy man and he suggested the addition of a conservatory that would add living space to their three bedroomed semi-detached house.
After all a conservatory is the equivalent of an extra room and can be used all year around, especially in the spring for those sunny days with cold winds, they are a great place to relax, or even work from home.
Choosing A Conservatory Design
The function of this conservatory was to make the house look bigger and add living space. Once they had looked at UPVC conservatory designs they both decided that glass created the illusion of space. Some conservatories are made with a timber frame or they have dwarf walls.
In this case they wanted to create a room that could be used and be made of glass. Although they had a small dining room they wanted it to be here in the new conservatory as their dining room was dark. The plan was to move the dining room to their conservatory and make the old dining room an office.
Their house had been built in the thirties and did not have high ceilings, so they planned to match their new conservatory to the height of the house, which would make it a more natural part of the house. They rejected both Victorian and Edwardian conservatories for plain glass. However they decided that the conservatory could have a raised roof on the centre.
For a UPVC conservatory to match the style of the house it has to be of a similar size and scale. In this case adding a pitched glass ceiling creates the illusion of more light and therefore height. Because they minimized the amount of detail on the glass windows they reduced their building costs and also opened up their extra living space.
Part of their saving for the construction went into paying for ambient lighting that drew the eye to the raised roof. If you are intend to increase the value of your property or the desirability of the property then that cannot be done if the design is shoddy or the construction is inferior. They were aware that they could have had a cheaper conservatory with a lean to roof, but they wanted the roof to make a statement.
However Ann and Peter both wanted to reduce the glare from the large roof area in the summer and they opted for roof blinds along part of the roof. The ambient lighting also had to effective to nurture the dwarf orange trees that they chose for their new conservatory. Despite the fact that they wanted to create living that is no reason not to have greenery in your conservatory. Dwarf fruit trees or small shrubs are a perfect choice and they will thrive in an area that has controlled humidity all the year round. Any type of climbing plant in a conservatory will reduce the amount of space and although bougainvillea is a climber that blooms for most of the year it would not have been in keeping with the function of this conservatory.
As the design that they chose was relatively simple they were able to purchase a conservatory kits which Ann’s father could install. It had no need of foundations and was made with pre fabricated pieces of glass.
All in all they had an offer on their house within a week of the completion of their new conservatory. This classic conservatory had done what it says on the tin it had added desirability to the property, not bad for a cheap UPVC conservatory.
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