Orangery, Conservatory, Or Garden Room? Which Extension Should You Choose?

 If you are planning to renovate your home and add an extension that has both space and light, then you have three choices to choose from: orangery, conservatory, and garden room. But which one is the best choice for you? To help you out here is a guide on choosing the best-glazed extension for your home before you go and contact your orangery fitter in Trowbridge or your conservatory fitter. 

Which one to choose? 

When it comes to glazed extension, there are three types to choose from as said before. Now conservatory is built on a brick base and has glass walls while orangery, the quality ones, have semi-glazed walls with roof lantern. A garden room is more or less similar to an orangery, the only difference being it has a fully tiled roof. Plus, it often has dramatically glazed gables that make a perfect statement. Now, which will you choose will depend on the style of your house, the position of the extension and of course your budget.

Which property is best for a glazed extension?

If your property is a listed property or if you live in an area that is designated as a conservation area, then you have to be careful while choosing the type of your extension. For both cases, often garden rooms and orangery is a perfect choice, provided you choose a design that will work in harmony with the proportions of your existing home as well as the heritage side of the property.

Such buildings are often lacking light and give a feeling of being closed or small without any flow of natural air and light like modern buildings have. In such a scenario, your orangery or garden room can give a new room to your existing building that is spacious and full of light while perfectly blending with the design of the house. If your budget permits, make the building with timber as it will give the house a elegance which the cost-effective uPVC cannot provide. The subtilities of your existing building can be carried forward to your orangery or garden room if they are made of wood.

Which position of the house is best for such an extension?

The original purpose of these building where to house plants, and if you are building one for that, a good orangery fitter in Trowbridge will suggest a south-facing direction for it. In that position, the temperature can go up to 40-degree centigrade during summer! But if you are building it for other purposes choose a spot that receives sufficient but not too much sunlight so that it does not get that hot in the summer.