Porches & Sunrooms: Your Guide to Planning and Remodeling (Better Homes and Gardens(R)) (Paperback)
March 7, 2010 by admin
Filed under Remodeling Books
For people who want to bring the outdoors in.Information on the best way to improve or add a sunroom or porch.Dozens of inspirational photos show a broad range of options.Construction basics including how to choose and work with professionals.
The Guide would be useful to an interior decorator. I was looking for help in estimating cost and materials needed to build a porch.
I bought this book, along with another on building additions, when I was rebuilding an old porch that was falling apart because of bad construction. I needed some ideas on what to make it look like and how to go about it. I liked the basic design of the original, but it’s execution was poor. The many pictures of such a variety of porches showed me what I needed to do, and the end result of my little project is one of my favorite rooms in the house. The book shows porches in various climate zones, although all of them were larger than my project, it’s nice to be able to apply ideas from bigger and fancier to smaller projects to add just a bit of elegance to what would otherwise be only average.