Conservatories- Naff?

I think it depends on the conservatory. Some look rather unattractive but others look quite nice and are practical and a useful additional space.

We are naff as we love our conservatory. In fact we bought our current place last year as we liked it. At our previous house we also had a conservatory. We are thinking of getting a tiled roof to stop the hot and cold issue but we wouldn’t be without ours. It’s south facing and looks onto our garden. It’s very useful for hardening plants, which we are doing, full of pot plants and wicker furniture. The height of naff 😂😂😂

GrannyGravy13

Definitely The Orangery 🍊🍊🍊

Standard piece of useless information from me ... An Orangery and Conservatory are not the same.

A conservatory is a glass structure with a brick base and a pitched glazed roof. An orangery is a brick structure with large windows and a flat roof with a glass lantern.

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Forsythia
This is the company we used for our Orangery 😄
Absolutely brilliant job done.

www.hightechmembraneroofing.co.uk/blog/different-types-flat-roofing-products

Thank you Greyduster

Thank you MerylStreep, I will take a a good look at the website.

We've window blinds closed for dreary weather. The entire back to our home is a huge bright open window conservatory - brilliant for this chilly seeming season.

We had a kitchen extension built, with two big roof lights and wall to ceiling windows on to the garden. It forms a separate room at one end of the kitchen, without a dividing wall, and gives us all the advantages of a conservatory while being an integral part of the house and in constant use as a family room

Our kitchen is in our conservatory/ extension. We absolutely love sitting at the table and watching the birds and squirrels, with a most wonderful view of the garden. As I have said up thread we have an air source heating pump fitted which makes the room accessible both in very cold and very hot weather.

Grammaretto

An orangerie!! How very pretentious.
This thread is getting quite heated. Perhaps we should open the skylights?
We moved into a bungalow when our DC were small and it was the best place to live with young children. So easy being on one floor.
Now I live above my workshop and the attic playroom is where the DGC end up.

There's a beautiful orangerie at Dalkeith Palace.

When our orangery conservatory was first built and before we had furniture (it took some time to choose and to be delivered) our DGD used to bring all her puzzles in there and do them all around the floor.
And it was a great space to set up a little train set.

I cant help thinking people may be starting to call them naff as they have glass, and that is supposed to be bad for net zero?

Ah but think of all that solar gain in the summer, with all that glass

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