conservatories

Hope you enjoy using it, roses.

Daro furniture is expensive but a friend who came and admired ours said they had bought something cheaper in a rush and will have to replace theirs soon (only about five years after purchase). And they offer a re-covering service.

roses! I had a lovely conservatory on my last house and even after 14 years, I still miss it. There isn't room for one on this smaller house.

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nanabelle thanks, sure we will love it.
Thanks for DARO info roseq yes, no good buying cheap if you need to replace it soon is there? Didn't know they re-covered furniture either.

What we spent on fuel going round the country looking at furniture we could have put towards a nice neat Daro table and two chairs to match the suite! In the end we picked the suite I we liked in the first place and ended up with a cheaper table and two chairs - nice but don't match! False economy.

ps every suite had to pass the DH test of 'If I fall asleep I want a chair-back high enough so that my head doesn't fall back'. As he falls asleep in the conservatory quite often it is just as well we chose one with a high back!

Think we will be doing a fair bit of falling asleep there too.Know what he means about the highbacked chairs, my DH is tall so needs the same.The Andorra cane range looks nice and highbacked, so will visit the showroom in Swindon and have a sit on it.

We chose the Waterford one, we still like it.

Reviving this thread, Roses, hoping you enjoyed your conservatory this summer and that you are glad you went ahead with it?

We had a conservatory built on the back of our house and it was the best decision! There are so many options to choose from especially nowadays with so many products. Similar to our windows, we researched online and found a website which was very useful called www.conservatoryonlineprices.co.uk.

It gives you guide prices on a range of styles but also lots of useful advice about various options available. We ended up using one of their recommended installers / suppliers. They did the brickwork as well as the windows, doors and roof. We found it easier to deal with one company as opposed to lots of different tradesmen. It took a few weeks to build but certainly added value. We did lots of internal decoration afterwards and furnished it the way we imagined. It is lovely waking up in the mornings and eating breakfast in our conservatory. We had bifold doors installed so we can open it out in the Spring / Summer time which is beautiful. Our glass roof lets in lots of light but it is warm and snug in the winter. Hope this helps.

Mrs Mopp never saw your comment at the time, but yes, it was the best decision we ever made to get it done, we love it, and use it every day.Having a double radiator and also under floor heating means that we can use it all year round.We had terracotta tiling on the floor which doesn't fade and is easy to clean. Thanks again for all the replies which helped enormously.Hope that anyone else contemplating having a conservatory will read through this thread..

Glad you're enjoying your conservatory rosesarered.
I used to have a conservatory in my old house but found it was either too hot or too cold a lot of the time. It was south facing and not very big. About 8*10.
This time around, we bought a modern timber framed house that's well insulated and had a sunroom extension added last summer. Sunrooms are very popular here in
Ireland, more so than conservatories. With a sunroom, you have proper walls and a roof (plus tons of insulation) but it also has large triple glazed windows, two sets of French doors and glazed units in the centre of the roof. It's very light and warms up quickly when the suns out but doesn't get ridiculously hot due to the insulation. We even had a wood burning stove fitted which we've used a few times over Christmas.
It's by far my favourite room and I love it.