If you have outgrown your home and feel like you need to add more space, you have a variety of choices. You can add a room built in the same architectural style as your original home, or you can add a sunroom, a room with walls of glass, which will add a certain style and elegance to your home that may have been lacking before.



The cost of a sunroom, which can range from $10,000 to $70,000 at current prices, is about equivalent to the cost to build a room from traditional materials, and a sunroom can be built in half the time. Indeed, the skilled contractors of a company like TEMO take only two days to put a sunroom together. (Excluding the time needed to prepare and grade the new site and lay a concrete slab as a foundation, of course.)

And as with that traditional room, the addition of a sunroom will add value on to your house, should you decide to sell it in future.

There's little point in detailing here the approximate dollar amounts for material and the approximate dollar amounts for labor. As the years go by prices for both materials and labor will always rise...which is one reason why it's a good idea to build a sunroom as soon as you decide you want one, to take advantage of current prices.

Before you order your sunroom, there are a great many factors that must come into consideration. It is not a question of, "If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it." That is not the case. As with any big ticket item, manufacturers have a variety of finance plans in place to assist their customers in acquiring their new addition.

The price may be moot if you are not allowed to build a sunroom to begin with. The first thing you'll need to do is check the local zoning and building codes to ensure that you can build the type of sunroom that you want. Even if these codes allow you to build the sunroom, they may place restrictions on its size or design.

The second thing to decide is if you want to build your sunroom on top of an existing structure, or if it will be constructed on top of a newly laid foundation. If there's no need to build a new foundation, this will be reflected in the cost of the sunroom.

Sunrooms are defined by the style of their roof. If the ceiling is anything other than flat, certain of the windows will have to be specially designed to fit into the roof, and this will raise the cost. Vaulted, split-level and conservatory windows ceilings make therefore, for the most expensive type of sunroom.

The highest quality windows are of course the most expensive, but they will pay for themselves over time in lowering the heating and cooling costs of the sunroom. In addition to the window glazing, the window frames are very important. Poorly fitted window frames will allow cold air or rain to pass through, which is the last thing you want in a sunroom worth thousands of dollars.

In order to get a sunroom for the best price possible, investigate all your options. Visit several sunroom manufacturers, both on the web and in your area, compare prices and features, and make an informed decision.