If you’re considering adding onto your home, a sunroom could be the perfect addition. Sunrooms provide the extra space you’re looking for, with the added bonus of providing bountiful sunshine and comfort throughout the year.
In this article, the Easter team offers ten unique ways we’ve seen customers in the St. Louis area use sunrooms to maximize the value of their added space.
Sunroom Idea #1: Home Office
More people are working from home than ever before. A sunroom provides an ideal alternative home office space with abundant sunlight and great outdoor views year-round. Having your home office in a sunroom also gives you a place to keep work life and family life separate, ensuring you can focus on both at the appropriate time.
Sunroom Idea #2: Kids’ Play Area
We’ve seen so many parents and grandparents in the St. Louis area utilize their sunroom addition as a dedicated play area for the little ones in their life. Leveraging your sunroom as a play area gives you dedicated space (outside your living room) to keep toys and storage. No more scrambling to clean up plastic food or building blocks at the end of the day to find a place to relax or welcome unexpected guests.
Sunroom Idea #3: Seasonal Dining Space
Many modern home layouts have done away with the formal dining room, in favor of a dining area attached to the kitchen. And most days, that probably gets the job done. But a sunroom can serve as a dedicated dining space when guests come to visit. There’s nothing like enjoying a meal in the sunshine without having to contend with bugs or dust and noise from your neighbor’s leaf blower.
Sunroom Idea #4: Reading Nook
If you’re the kind who likes to curl up with a good book to pass the time, you’ be hard pressed to find a cozier and more comfortable environment than a sunroom. Let the hours disappear while you get lost in a great story in your own private space.
Sunroom Idea #5: Hobby Room
From crafting to painting to practicing an instrument, a sunroom is a perfect place for artists of all kinds to find isolation and inspiration with natural light and the nature of your yard all around you.
Sunroom Idea #6: Entertainment Space
Do you enjoy hosting parties and family gatherings? Expand your family’s living and entertainment space into a unique environment that welcomes the outdoors in. Serve cocktails to guests from your home bar or challenge your friends to a game of pool. The options are limitless for leveraging your sunroom as an entertainment space.
Sunroom Idea #7: Exercise Room
Enjoy the bliss of outdoor exercise in a comfortable, temperature-controlled environment. Leveraging your sunroom as a workout or yoga space also gives you a dedicated place behind closed doors to store your exercise equipment when not in use.
Sunroom Idea #8: Pool Room
A sunroom provides the ideal separation between your pool area and your traditional home living space where kids can drip and dry off without damaging your floors. Keep an eye on the kids, enjoy the sunshine, and also get the shade you need to endure St. Louis’ hot summer days.
Sunroom Idea #9: All-Purpose Added Living Space
Most sunrooms offer enough size and flexibility to support any combination of these uses, and 100 more we haven’t even covered in this article. Your options are limitless. A sunroom provides the extra space you need with an aesthetic you just can’t get from a traditional stick-built addition.
