Pimping our conservatory
When we bought our house 2 years ago, we fell in love with the dining room which leads into the conservatory with South facing bifold doors overlooking the garden. The sun shone through the whole room and it was bright and warm. The area is so lovely that we tend to live in the conservatory area when not in the garden. However, the conservatory has a pitched polycarbonate roof and suffers greatly from extreme temperature changes and is extremely noisy when it rains.
We are about to have a new glass Elizabethan style glass roof fitted with new patio doors and adjacent floor to ceiling windows. The conservatory will have 300mm wide pelmets with downlighting.
Once these works are completed we will replace the laminate flooring throughout and redecorate the room. We have struggled with the flooring choice but are close to settling on Karndean Country Oak vinyl tiles.
Any thoughts on the colour scheme?
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Paul Goodwin
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Conservatory light - please help
Comments (10)Hello Gill, It's a fantastic space and I want to suggest something with cluster lighting to highlight that amazing roof and window.... Now it's important to say at this point that you can create multiple chords from one rose- ie the one chord you have hanging... See attached image of rose with 3 pink chords... You can choose any colour chord you like and have multiple height clusters up to 5 chords which add a fabulous look with different lengths of chord.. All you do is get some ceiling hooks fixed where you want the suspensions to hang. Fix the ceiling rose first with the required number or chords and then create a hoop and wrap the chord around with a loop length of your choice on the desired hook, with the remainder hanging with a suspension light on the end.. You can effectively design your bespoke lighting instillation... I have chosen the Fiorella by Nigel Coates.. This is a polycarbonate design that you put together and very light. Of course you can choose the suspension light of your choice, but I thought this one is a particularly fantastic choice for your room... It is available in white, smoke and gold and 2 suspension sizes.. Also table and wall lighting versions to accent. Will try to attach images to show in another post as they don't seem to want to include here! You could actually use the rafters to loop the cabling and for that I'd then suggest white cable or translucent.. The resulting look would be a linear effect and equally lovely... :))...See MoreOur Conservatory
Comments (2)Hi! Unfortunately we've no experience with the film, but could I ask if it is Polycarbonate or a glass roof that you currently have? If it is polycarbonate, you could look at a "Smart Poly" option which is a foil insert into the polycarbonate. This is very effective but you do lose a little bit of the light too. There is a little info on our website here: http://www.conservatoryland.com/polycarbonate-roof-glazing.asp Best Regards Rob Smith 0800 952 8000...See Moreour conservatory gets too hot
Comments (4)We have a glass roofed conservatory, which is across the back of our house, completely open plan. We just leave the doors and windows open. We eat in there every night as we use it as the dining area, so we have thick curtains, which we pull a few of across to block the sun whilst eating. They also serve to keep out the cold in the winter....See MoreLooking to style your conservatory with fabulous blinds
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7 years agoPaul Goodwin
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoHi Gina. (Nice name. My wife is also a Gina). Actually the orange walls were there when we bought the house and although we were not sure at the time, they have grown on us. So not afraid of bright colours.
However, now we have bought the blue furniture and chosen a floor covering we are going to redecorate the walls and like your suggestions thank you.
No going back now - see the latest photo !
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7 years ago
Carolina
7 years agoHi, I would go cooler with the wall colour. Something like F&B Parma Gray will work well with the floor and hopefully with the lovely sofas too.
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7 years agoCarolina
7 years agoOkay, so if you want warmer, I like the idea of F&B string, or I have Joa's White in my south west facing kitchen, which isn't white at all.
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7 years ago Paul Goodwin
7 years agoPaul Goodwin
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoThanks everyone for your really helpful advice. We have completed the project now and we used F&B string on the walls which was a great suggestion. We used matt magnolia on the ceiling and under pelmet. (Same scheme throughout although lighting suggests otherwise)
Finished off with Karndean Van Gogh country oak LVT flooring. We are really pleased with the overall finish.
NB. Spot the liquid reward standing on the floor !
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