Conservatories- Naff?

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Thank you Greyduster

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

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

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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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 😂😂😂

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

Depends on the design and appearance of the conservatory and individual taste. Each to his/her own!

Callistemon21

Norah

Callistemon21

I think I know what new, younger owners would do with our house because we'd do the same if we were younger! However, when we were younger we couldn't afford the alterations, now we haven't the will or the energy.

Ours will be demolished, land sold after we are gone. Anyone young wouldn't have it, even if given for free, it'll see us out.

Oh no!
It might not, someone with soul might buy it.

No, it's old and the land is quite valuable.

It's surely done well, with changes, over years. Eventually old homes decline and are reclaimed by the earth. That's fine.

My daughter's house has a conservatory. Not a very stylish one, if I'm going to be honest it's a bit scruffy. They lined the ceiling with wood so it doesn't get too hot and it's used as an office and a home for the guinea pigs.

We spend a lot of time in our conservatory, reading and listening to music. It's warm, light and has very comfortable sofas in it. Our children and grandchildren have played in it (it has often been called the toy room), had their afternoon naps in it and our eldest granddaughter, who is 17, likes nothing more than coming to our house and having a sleep on the sofa. Must say I don't mind a nap in it myself

Norah

Callistemon21

I think I know what new, younger owners would do with our house because we'd do the same if we were younger! However, when we were younger we couldn't afford the alterations, now we haven't the will or the energy.

Ours will be demolished, land sold after we are gone. Anyone young wouldn't have it, even if given for free, it'll see us out.

Oh no!
It might not, someone with soul might buy it.

My daughter and son-in-law have changed theirs into a bar. 🤣🤣

sarahcyn

Well I’ll tell you some very fashionable things which are going to be the height of naff in 20 years:
Having a row of at least half a dozen “industrial” looking lamps over your dining table.
Glass balustrades. Clearly not designed by anyone who ever does housework.
“Wet room” showers. When the allegedly impermeable membrane eventually becomes permeable, you’re going to gave to tear the whole thing out.
Decking (already past its peak)
And above all - that anti-environmental, soil-killing, wildlife-starving abomination that is fake grass.
Why pick on the dear old conservatory - no planning permission, not too costly, and a lovely place for indoor plants?

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Today’s fashion is tomorrows naff. Who cares tho? If you have a conservatory just enjoy it.What’s a balustrade btw?

Callistemon21

I think I know what new, younger owners would do with our house because we'd do the same if we were younger! However, when we were younger we couldn't afford the alterations, now we haven't the will or the energy.

Ours will be demolished, land sold after we are gone. Anyone young wouldn't have it, even if given for free, it'll see us out.

I think I know what new, younger owners would do with our house because we'd do the same if we were younger! However, when we were younger we couldn't afford the alterations, now we haven't the will or the energy.

Susan55 It is more than one person on the radio. it is articles in a lot of newspapers and online and I think it emanates from a firm of estate agents, based on their selling experience.

I am not sure why people get so het up about the issue. This information is only going to affect you if you are selling your house, in which case, depending on the style, construction and position of your conservatory, it could reduce the value of your house rather than increase it.

There are number of features in our house thatI know that the next owners will rip out the moment they move in. So what?

In the past we have moved into houses and immediately ripped things out. At a trivial level the moment we moved into our current house I went round the house, on the first evening and took down all the net curtains, followed by reglazing the bathroom windows.

Just because one person on the radio believes conservatories are naff doesn't mean they are. It's just one person's subjective feelings about conservatories and shouldn't make any difference to how you feel about them. I don't believe they decrease a property's value; as far as I'm aware and in my own experience, they add to it.

One of the things I really like about being older is that I honestly don't care what other people think. If I like something, I like something regardless of other people's views about it.

My mum had a conservatory at the back of her bungalow and some of my best memories of her were made in that space overlooking her garden.

Musicgirl

We love our conservatory. It’s an extra room for the house and great to sit in and relax. I don’t care if it’s considered naff. I think most of us are of an age where we have seen fashions and ideas come and go and do not worry about “experts” telling us what we should have and do. If you have a conservatory and like it then great. If don’t have a conservatory and don’t want one, well that is fine too.

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