Category: Orangeries and Conservatories
Orangeries are a brilliant option to create more living space in your home, and they also have the potential to increase the value of your property. They’re incredibly versatile and can be used to elevate your home in many different ways, so before you start an extension project, consider all your options for how you can make the most of this beautiful addition to your home.
What is an orangery?
Timber frame orangeries are often seen as the perfect blend of conservatory and standard brick extension. They usually feature lots of thermally efficient glass, but while many incorporate a roof lantern in the design, the perimeter of the roof is usually solid, unlike a conservatory.
Inspiring orangery ideas
1. Create the kitchen of your dreams
The kitchen is the centre of any home, and an orangery kitchen extension will take yours to new levels of space and style. Orangeries can work with lots of different kitchen styles too, bringing sophistication to a traditional room and warmth to a more modern design.
Orangeries are an especially great option for extending kitchens that face north or don’t receive a lot of natural light, because a roof lantern can cast such a wide angle of light even when the sun is low in the sky, meaning your space will feel instantly brighter all year round.
2. Take entertaining to new levels
Love hosting dinner parties? Why not use an orangery extension to create a dining area with the wow factor.
As well as looking stunning and oozing refined elegance, orangeries also solve the issue that comes with many conservatories – being too hot in summer and too cold in winter – thanks to their modern design and thermally efficient glass.
This means your guests will be able to enjoy your hospitality in comfort all year round.
3. Form a natural hideaway
Orangeries blend indoor and outdoor living so why not combine both with a gorgeous garden room.
It’s a way to enjoy your garden or outdoor space all year round in comfort, and being flooded with natural light also makes an orangery the perfect spot for house plants to thrive.
So why not create a cosy oasis where you can feel at one with the natural world.
4. Enjoy an inspiring office
Green space, natural light and an airy atmosphere are all associated with greater creativity and a sense of peace and organisation, and you can add more of those qualities to your working day with an orangery home office.
Swap a desk squeezed into the corner of an existing room for a dedicated workspace complete with plenty of light and views to the outdoors. You might be amazed at what you’ll achieve in it.
5. Build a home gym you’ll actually want to use
Often it’s not exercise that we find ourselves averse to, but the environment in which we do it. If sweaty gyms or shivery parks don’t do it for you in the fitness stakes, a luxurious home gym might be just what you need.
And an orangery could provide that. With an excess of natural light and the space to use exactly how you wish, it can be a great way to create the home gym of your dreams – and you won’t have to step outside your home to use it.
Contact Tucker Joinery to find out how a timber frame orangery could transform your home.
