Conservatories- Naff?

Callistemon21

^Mansard addition^

Well, I had to look that up Norah!

Inexpensive space, build upward.

We needed 2 more bedrooms and a bath.

I love a conservatory. What I don't like are those hinged doors that get left open all day in the summer, then get impossible to close in the evening because they've dropped on their hinges 😡

And those large top-hinged windows with the flimsy aluminium struts to keep them open. If they once get blown closed by a sudden strong wind, the struts never quite work right again.

Love my conservatory. Had a "solid" roof fitted 4 years ago. Has a central heating radiator as well as a inverter type air conditioning unit. Had a wee dog at one time and as the whole back of the house gets a lot of sun was worried dog would be too hot when left alone. The unit is marvellous, cools within minutes and in the winter heats up to 22 within 5 mins. Conservatory is 14 x 12. Next we will be told baths in bathrooms are naff.

That is interesting, 4allweknow.

Would love one, naff or not!

My father built one on their bungalow years ago. It had a solid roof but was all single glazed glass. We always called it the lean-to. They would use it all day until it got cold out there, then closed the door and came inside. I went to look at the old place a few years ago, and a version of it was still standing.

At first I thought the title was "Conservatives are naff"

Ooh I thought that's poshly polite- then I realised it said conservatories 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

These ‘gurus’ who are the arbiters of ‘naffness’ get my goat! Is their good taste a given and always to be emulated!? It is up to the INDIVIDUAL (plenty out there I hope) to decide for themselves what they like and what fits in to their lifestyle. We are becoming SO ‘trend led,’ on so many fronts that we are forgetting that being different from the crowd is perfectly ok!

so one (unnamed) person on the radio says something is naff and that automatically makes it a fact?

We have a proper roof on ours with a velux window and it has central heating. It was made in hardwood and has beautiful arches - I still refer to it as a conservatory though..

We call ours a garden room anyway, it is brick and oak with a tiled roof so nothing like a conservatory. Loved by an architect we had round recently so fine with us.

I suppose there's conservatories and conservatories - those that come from a DIY shop and look like they've just been plonked on with no thought to how they'll look and those that have been designed to suit & compliment the existing building . My grandfather lived in a Victorian house with original conservatory featuring stained glass windows. It was wonderful. He grew his tomatoes in there, it smelt amazing.

Whitewavemark2

Germanshepherdsmum

No, deadly serious. I’m keeping my eye on Rightmove atm and every ‘single storey residence’ (I refuse to use the B word) has an effing conservatory! Nooooo!

Yes - you might not like them and I have no opinion about that but how are they identified with older folk.

Although honestly if I think about it - in the scheme of things does it matter? So I’ve now lost interest in that so don’t waste your time replying ☺️

Deliberately rude and offensive. Perhaps GSM doesn’t plan on getting old?

Our last house had a very useful conservatory that we used as a dining room/reading area/play area and it worked well for us, particularly when we looked after young grandchildren twice a week.

I am old, being 72, but I don’t act old. I don’t have to like things that I associate with old people, such as the bolt-on conservatory with plastic windows furnished with wicker chairs and pot plants, beige crimplene slacks, a shopping trolley and a shampoo and set, do I?

When the house-owners added that out-of-date conservatory shown on Rightmove, they were probably young with an expanding family and a contracting bank account, wore mini-skirts and if they had no car they were able to carry several bags of shopping home on a crowded bus and/or up a hill. Their shampoo and set was normal hairstyle for that era.

In recent years they bought a shopping trolley to cart their groceries home and several pairs of fleecy jogging trousers - so much warmer than crimplene - and found someone to do their hair at home in an easy-to-keep casual style. Now they have sadly died and their children are selling the convenient bungalow (no stairs for her arthritic knees) with the sun-trap conservatory where Mum spent so much of her last years tending her plants and using her I-pad to contact her far-flung family and put in her order to Tesco.

I wouldn't worry, as you obviously are not thinking of selling your house right now.

If you do get round to it, conservatories may well be back in fashion, or yours so old and run down that you decide to pull it down before putting the house up for sale.

Meanwhile enjoy your house and conservatory!

Very good Elegran !!!

When I look around the hall at U3A meetings, I don't see crimplene trousers or shampoo and sets. I see rather nice jackets, some puffa style, felt coats and colourful hats but I guess the younger generation think we look our age and wouldn't be seen dead in any of these outfits.
I looked out for conservatories on my bus trip down to Peebles yesterday but saw none. There was an occasional porch.

Has anyone mentioned verandas? I rather like the look of those.

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Veranda image

My husband engineered ours to fit the style of our Victorian stone cottage. The roof is same material as our home. Wood comes 2 feet up the sides, rest is white windows. Heating/ cooling and existing fireplace chimney. We needed space. Fantastic.

Much like the picture. Runs the length of our home, different footprint.

That’s nice. I would call it an orangery or a garden room. Nothing like those plastic offerings from Anglian.

Germanshepherdsmum

That’s nice. I would call it an orangery or a garden room. Nothing like those plastic offerings from Anglian.

Maybe we'll change out and call it "the orangery" - no, too much, little children would run round looking for oranges!

I bought ours because it had a conservatory😂 with lovely views onto fields . It was the view that grabbed me as soon as I seen it . If it hadn't been there the bungalow would have seemed a lot smaller.

I love ours - leads off the kitchen and acts as an all year round dining space. Very sociable when we have people round. Always full of chilli plants, sour Orange plants and makrut limes etc at one side, and a glass roof. Now showing signs of age as we have had it twenty years and I would never trust Anglian again as it was quite a saga when they built it. And we now have a issue with the box guttering.

But, I wouldn’t be without it . It filled up an L shaped space between two house walls so did not encroach much into the garden.

I’m in my sixties and do not wear crimplene and have banned Elasticated trousers as too easy to put on weight!

62Granny

I bought ours because it had a conservatory😂 with lovely views onto fields . It was the view that grabbed me as soon as I seen it . If it hadn't been there the bungalow would have seemed a lot smaller.

Precisely.

Ours is lovely, fantastic view, space, light - makes our old home bigger, brighter, we have room for little children to play. We have a table/chairs - we eat some meals there, or use it as a large gathering serving spot.