Adding a sunroom to your home provides more usable and versatile living spaces. While a deck can allow you to enjoy the outdoors during mild weather, you can enjoy an all-season sunroom throughout the year, even in unfavorable conditions. By enclosing your deck instead of building a home addition, you can create a beautiful and cost-effective sunroom.

Consider these benefits of having a sunroom on your deck:

  • Adds bonus space: Sunrooms provide additional space to fit your purpose. For instance, you could use yours as a workout room or a home office.
  • Boosts home value: Adding a sunroom will increase your home’s square footage and add to its beauty, thus enhancing its value.
  • Reduces electricity bills: The bright, breezy, open design of a sunroom means more natural light can filter into your home. Some sunroom designs can also cut your use of heating and air conditioning, lowering your electricity bills significantly.
  • Enhances luxurious feel: No matter the season, your sunroom gives you a gorgeous view to enjoy, giving you the feeling of being on vacation year-round.
  • Creates green room: Turning a deck into a sunroom means plenty more sunlight and space to grow flowers, vegetables and herbs in your home.
  • Protects from insects, pollen and the weather: The enclosed design of a sunroom means you’re safe from bugs, allergens and inclement weather, while still enjoying the fresh feeling of nature.

What You Need to Know About Converting a Deck Into a Sunroom

When mapping out how to convert your deck to a sunroom, you should consider several essential factors. Your sunroom contractor will help you develop the conversion plan, but other elements to consider include:

  • Function: How do you anticipate using your sunroom? The bonus space can have many potential functions, including an office, exercise, green or entertaining room. Its intended purpose is critical for deciding on a design.
  • Design: There are many ways to customize your sunroom. Browsing pictures of sunroom ideas can help define the look and feel you want.
  • Expert contractors: For the best results, it’s wise to hire expert contractors experienced in designing sunrooms on decks. They can help craft a solution that fits your needs and wants, while keeping climate changes and the view in mind.
  •  Type: Can you build a three- or four-season room on a deck? Absolutely. Three-season sunrooms are not insulated, so you can only enjoy them in warmer weather. You can use four-season sunrooms year-round, as they offer warmth during cold winters.
  • Budget: It’s important to consider your budget, so your contractor can give you design suggestions and styles that fall within your price range.
How to Turn a Deck Into a Sunroom

How to Turn a Deck Into a Sunroom

Your contractor will handle the process of converting your deck into a sunroom and help you develop a design plan. Some of the things your contractor will check include the foundation, attachment style and deck materials. Other design aspects for you to consider include flooring, furniture, roofing and windows.

Evaluate Your Foundation

It all starts with the foundation. If your deck doesn’t have a solid foundation or any foundation, you will either need to replace it or add one to support your sunroom. Your contractor can build upon a newer deck or one with a good foundation.

Analyze the Attachment Style

The attachment style is how the deck connects to your house. It influences how your contractor will build your sunroom. Aside from determining your deck’s attachment style, your contractor should also check the fasteners. Here are the different attachment styles.

  • Attached: If you have a raised deck that’s already attached to your house, this often makes for an easy conversion into a sunroom.
  • Wraparound: Most wraparound decks have similar height measurements to your main entrance, so it’s easy to turn them into a sunroom. You only have to convert part of the deck into the sunroom, so you can leave the rest uncovered.
  • Elevated: Have an elevated deck that’s anchored to a higher floor of your home? If so, it might be best to have a sunroom built under the deck. With this method, you would have both a sunroom and a deck, providing additional outdoor space.
  • Covered: Since covered decks already have a roof, they will need surrounding glass for insulation. Covered decks tend to be the easiest type to convert into a sunroom.

Inspect the Materials

Next, it’s time to evaluate your deck’s structural materials, identify any replacement needs and assess the design of your new deck to create the best results.

Flooring

There are a lot of flooring options available for your sunroom. If you want a four-season sunroom, you can get underfloor heating. Hardwood floors, carpet concrete or patterned flooring work well for sunrooms.

Furniture

Since a large amount of sunlight will enter your room, you need to choose finishes and fabrics that won’t fade or deteriorate with sunlight exposure. Once you know how you plan to use your sunroom, design and furniture ideas will come easier.

Roof

When it comes to deck roofing, you’ve got plenty of options to choose from. Your roof can be insulated, retractable or just a simple awning. You can also consider your choice of skylight or window. Skylights on the rooftop will provide a stunning view of the stars while letting plenty of natural light in during the day.

Windows

Most sunrooms have many windows since people have them to enjoy the outdoors without being subject to various weather elements. You can choose how many windows you want in the design, if you would like them to be tinted or use retractable blinds and what style you like best.

Contact Evolution Sunrooms

Contact Evolution Sunrooms Today

At Evolution Sunrooms, we’ve spent more than 27 years building a reputation for turning decks into sunrooms so that you can bring the outdoors inside for true all-year-round living. We offer the most advanced sunroom additions in Southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Our sunrooms have an Amilock system that hides fasteners and provides a visible seal. The Pultrex framing system has similar structural integrity to a well-built modern home and is thermally efficient.

We precision-cut our sunroom materials in a factory-controlled environment, meaning the components will arrive on-site ready to assemble, preventing contractors from turning your home into a construction site. When you’re ready to begin converting your deck into a sunroom, contact us online for a free quote or call us at (215) 398-6936.