Sunrooms are very popular in our area of central Florida. They allow us to enjoy the outdoors all year round, provide a great gathering point for entertainment, and add valuable space to our home. In addition to some of the most obvious benefits, a sunroom can also significantly reduce your electric bill each month and drastically increase your home’s real estate value.
If you live in Lakeland, Plant City, Wesley Chapel, and the surrounding areas, here are four reasons to consider adding a sunroom to your home.
1. A Sunroom Opens Up Your Floor Plan
If you feel like your home is getting a bit cramped, adding a sunroom is a great way to open up your floor plan and add more space to your home. A sunroom increases the square footage of your home and creates a tranquil, scenic focal point in your home for relaxing, entertaining guests and family members, and enjoying the outdoors. Unlike a bedroom, a sunroom acts as a separate getaway space, with the potential to look and feel like a separate sanctuary. When your house begins to feel over-crowded, a sunroom adds much-needed space to your square footage and decreases clutter.
2. Adding a Sunroom to Your Home Increases Its Value
Any time you add a custom space to your house that enhances its beauty, its value increases. Adding a sunroom is an effective way to drastically increase the real estate value of your home in Florida. According to HomeAdvisor, a homeowner can recoup about half the cost of a sunroom from its ROI, and even more, if the space is set up to be a family room or other focal point of the home. A sunroom increases the square footage of your house, thus increasing its real estate value. Most homebuyers will gladly pay a little extra for a home that features a functional sunroom, especially if it faces a beautiful lush backyard or another equally scenic view.
Exterior sturdy aluminum materials are carefully chosen to match your home by expert sunroom designers at True Aluminum, and the sunroom is built to look like it’s part of the original plan. When choosing to add to your home, it’s best to choose a remodeling project that will add usable square footage to your home as well as beauty and functionality, and a sunroom does both perfectly.
3. Enjoy the Outdoors Year-Round
With a regular patio, weather and temperature greatly affect the amount of time you can effectively enjoy your time outdoors. A sunroom, on the other hand, allows you to enjoy the outdoors no matter how the weather is outside. Whether it’s sunny or rainy, hot or cold, you can enjoy a sunroom and its beautiful scenery during all times of the year. Pests are a common annoyance in central Florida, ruining a relaxing evening outdoors on your patio. With a sunroom, you can enjoy your backyard without dealing with pests ruining your relaxation.
4. A Sunroom Can Reduce Your Electric Bill
When adding a sunroom to your home, you’re effectively adding an entire room that will be flooded with natural sunlight for hours on end. Even on cloudy days, this room will still be bright enough to see clearly and enjoy, thus eliminating the need to turn on lights. This drastically cuts down the amount of time your home uses artificial lights and therefore decreases your electric bill.
A sunroom also provides ample natural heat during the winter. When it’s chilly outside, the sun’s rays will warm up the windows to your sunroom, providing you with effective and energy-efficient heating.
Taking advantage of a sunroom’s natural light is a great way to reduce your energy bill each month.
Ready to add a sunroom to your home?
At True Aluminum, we have lots of experience building custom sunrooms for homes in Lakeland, Plant City, Wesley Chapel, and the surrounding central Florida areas. If you’re ready to add value and enjoyment to your home, call us today at (863) 804-6021 to set up a consultation with our highly-skilled sunroom designers.
