Conservatories- Naff?

I’ve looked at Orangeries and Conservatories and can’t spot the difference 🤔

I've seen some really lovely Orangery type affairs and also some very modern ones that really enhance the back of the house of late (in magazines) The ones that have been around a while and are the standard type of thing, lots of UVPC glass type panels, I wouldn't want, but that's a personal thing, tastes are very subjective. I don't like wood burning stoves either, everyone else appears to love them, and one was in the house when we bought it, we're considering having it taken out.

Love mine, and spend more time in it than anywhere else in the house! It has double doors to the kitchen, so I can chat to visitors while prepping food or coffee, double doors to the very small garden at the back so I have a lovely view sitting eating or using the laptop. Don't care if it's naff or not, but as it has walls on either side I COULD call it a garden room...

We had a conservatory at our previous house and I loved it. I enjoyed sitting in the warmth and would often nod off. This house doesn’t have one but I would love to have one with a solid roof so I could once again enjoy the lovely feeling of nodding off.

I think the word ‘naff’ was become naff nowadays.

I love plantation shutters, I do not associate them with old people.

The upvc conservatory looks as if it is tacked to the house but the ones with dwarf brick wall that matches the brick of the house looks okay to me.
Nowadays, people prefer an extension with bifold doors rather then a conservatory.

In our last house we removed the conservatory and built a huge glass bay window, it was integrated into the room and was a lovely addition.
I’ve known two people with first floor conservatories, Kitty, both really interesting features. I wish we could have one.

I think it's because they're associated with older people now, which is why they're falling out of popularity. Along the same lines as plantation shutters. Anything 'oldie' is naff.

Who cares, as long as it suits the taste of the individual.

Calendargirl

Or even ‘the orangery’ if we are feeling very posh.

I work in the Planning Department at the local authority and there is definitely an increase in applications for orangeries recently.

As someone else said - "a rose by any other name".

Our conservatory is my favourite room in the house naff or not🤷‍♀️

Absolutely love mine. Now that we have a solid roof it's much more comfortable to relax in on warmer days. Even during brighter wintery days we benefit. Love the extra space, the brightness, hearing the birds sing. Wouldn't be without it.

I’m sure why we all like them so much is because of the light it gives. It is so beneficial.

I’m sat in ours at the moment - doors wide open listening to the birds. Blue sky and sun but out of that pesky chilly wind.

I like that idea Visigirl. My in-laws have one and it’s brilliant summer and winter.

I'd lose weight if we got rid of ours going from front to back of the house via 2 staircases!

20 years ago we thought about having one. My cousin an Architect said don't have a Sun Room, works out better value, won't date either. He was right.
It's brick built to match the house , with massive conservatory windows which are 3/4 of the wall up.
Solid roof which on the outside is shaped a bit like a Pergola.
It has been so worth it, we all love the room.

We built a large conservatory about twenty years ago and because it has central heating is used every day as an extra living room. In hindsight, putting a solid roof on it may have been wiser. My neighbour has just done that to hers.
It looks on to our garden and I enjoy watching the changing seasons.
I absolutely love it!

I’m not a fan. They seem to be used as cheap extensions, and in houses I’ve seen where they lead off dining/sitting room or even the kitchen, they make the rooms dark.

I would be deterred from buying a house with one.

Oh GSM, what is wrong with the ‘B’ word?

I love my BUNGALOW.

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 ☺️

We've a wonderful huge addition along the entire back to our house, gorgeous huge windows, room for plants, fireplace, air con. We call it 'the conservatory', wouldn't be nearly as happy in our old home without said space.

Not naff. Currently a garden room/ grandchildren playroom.

There was an article in the online Daily Fail, yesterday about this. Judging from the comments it engendered, of which there were many, most were in angry disagreement, mine included… by early afternoon it had dropped off the main headlines page completely. Total tosh imo!

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!

Germanshepherdsmum

I’m an old person I suppose - we’re in our 70s - but that doesn’t mean I want anything in my life that I identify with old people! Such as a conservatory!

I had no idea that they were identified with old people😄😄.

You joke of course

Oh dear. We built a garden room at our last house. It bore no resemblance at all to a conservatory. Just a large room with bifold doors all along one side.

Calendargirl

Or even ‘the orangery’ if we are feeling very posh.

Ha ha my brother and his wife think they are a cut above everyone else and have a “garden room”. 😝 even “orangery” is not posh enough for them.